The World - News from June 11, 1987
A former member of the French Resistance movement testified in Klaus Barbie’s trial in Lyon that Nazi occupiers of France were well aware of the fate reserved for people they deported to death camps. Part of Barbie’s defense against alleged crimes against humanity has been that as Lyon Gestapo chief, he merely carried out orders and did not know that the Jews and Resistance fighters deported were often sent to their deaths. But camps survivor Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier, 74, like other witnesses before her, testified that the Nazis taunted their prisoners with the future that awaited them.
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