Lawyer Serge KLARSFELD (President of the Association of Sons and Daughters of Jewish Deportees of France) comments on the latest events concerning Maurice PAPON: his conviction for complicity in a crime against humanity and his recent arrest after his escape attempt. After listing the various positions that Maurice Papon held throughout his career as a senior public servant and as a minister, the lawyer goes back on the long journey, which since 1981 has allowed the trial to take place. He thinks the defendant won’t get a presidential pardon. The Cologne trial, 20 years ago, brought to trial German Nazi criminals who worked to establish the "final solution".
Interview with Beate Klarsfeld who has just returned from Bolivia and who spoke with Mr "Kreminger" the Secretary of State to the Minister of the Interior of Bolivia. The latter asked him to continue his research in Germany in order to bring other evidence that will identify Klaus Barbie in the person of Klaus Altmann currently in La Paz. Serge Klarsfeld presents various elements proving that Klaus Altmann is Klaus Barbie. Following the interview with Beate Klarsfeld on the reasons for his hunt for former Nazi criminals.
The lawyer talks about Klaus Barbie’s involvement in the raid on Rue Sainte Catherine in Lyon during a press conference. Serge KLARSFELD reconstructed the history of the 84 people who were rounded up on rue Sainte Catherine and deported to the extermination camps. He produced documents and testimonies proving the involvement of Klaus BARBIE in this raid as well as his guilt in the deportation and death of the 44 children of Izieu. Images of the documents illustrate the subject.
Beate Klarsfeld demonstrated at the election meetings of candidate Kurt Waldheim in Gratz and Vienna, Austria. She is campaigning for recognition of the Austrian presidential candidate’s past as a Nazi war criminal. Beaten by law enforcement and passers-by, she brandished signs and chanted "Waldheim war criminal".
Serge and Beate Klarsfeld decided to go on the trail of Nazi criminals. In Trippstadt, Germany, Beate Klarsfeld found a former collaborator of Klaus Barbie: Ernst Bartelmus, in charge of Jewish issues in Lyon in 1944. She contacted him to gather his testimony.
Interview of Beate KLARSFELD on the trials against the Nazis and especially on the follow-up to the Munich judgment which has just acquitted Klaus BARBIE, Nazi criminal, responsible for the gestapo in Lyon.
Serge and Beate KLARSFELD, guests on stage, return to the defense of Klaus BARBIE, former head of the gestapo, who minimizes his responsibility in the deportation of Jews during the occupation in Lyon. But the couple gathered written evidence, originals bearing his signature, proving his involvement in the raids on Rue Sainte Catherine and the children of Izieu.
Subject devoted to the hunt for the war criminal, Klaus Barbie. After a brief reminder of the former Nazi’s journey after the Second World War, Beate Klarsfeld, invited to the stage, tells how she found Klaus Barbie in Bolivia in 1972. She tried to mobilize the Bolivian population to obtain her extradition. It proved the involvement of the former Nazi in crimes committed by the police under General Meza’s Bolivian dictatorship, including acts of torture against political opponents. A Bolivian state police card is shown as evidence on camera.