Nazism – Unpublished audio recordings of officer SS Klaus Barbie, published by the University of Stanford, reveal an icing testimony on the death of Jean Moulin
It is an unprecedented and historical testimony. For the first time, Klaus Barbie’s voice tells in detail the last moments of Jean Moulin. The University of Stanford has released fourteen hours audio recordings, from an interview in August 1979 with the German journalist Gerd Heidemann in which the ex-Gestapo chief in Lyon, then refugee in Bolivia, indulges without restraint. These archives, revealed by France TV, La Tribune on Sunday And several international media, offer new light on the death of the French resistance fighter and on the personality of his executioner.
In this recording, Klaus Barbie once again denied tortured the head of the Resistance. “It was not tortured, it was not touched. I discussed at length with him, politics and everything. Then he describes a “very intelligent” man whom he would have tried to “return”, without success. According to him, it was Jean Moulin himself who would have ended his life. He tells a scene of extreme violence. “He was taking momentum and entered his head into the wall. He opened his skull. “He specifies that Jean Moulin was attached by the hands, but not by the feet:” I did not think about it. »»
A dark self -portrait of Klaus Barbie
These declarations relaunch the debates on the exact circumstances of the death of the resistant, who died in July 1943 after being transferred to Germany. So far, the most widespread version evoked a suicide attempt in the staircase (…)
Read more on 20 minutes
Read also:
80 years of Mussolini’s death: “We can talk about nostalgia” … The shadow of the dictator always hovers on Italy
Hauts-de-France: Nazi objects put up for sale during the Grande Rederie d’Amiens
