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Events on Wednesday 25 September 1991 1
1913 – 1991Klaus Barbie (1913-1991)Died 25 September 1991, aged 77Klaus Barbie, the former Gestapo chief known as the "Butcher of Lyon" for his role in torturing and deporting French Resistance members and Jews during World War II, died in a French prison. He had been convicted of crimes against humanity in 1987 after years evading justice in South America. His trial was a landmark moment in France's reckoning with wartime collaboration.