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Events on Saturday 4 July 1987 1
1987Klaus Barbie convicted of crimes against humanity"Butcher of Lyon" sentenced to life imprisonment in FranceFormer Gestapo officer Klaus Barbie was convicted by a French court of crimes against humanity for deporting Jews and torturing resistance members in Lyon during the Second World War. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. The trial was one of the first to bring extensive video testimony of Holocaust survivors before the public.