Hotel Terminus - The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie (1988, Marcel Ophuls)

English hard subtitles



Klaus Barbie (born 1913 near Bonn in Germany) was an SS-officer

and the commandant of the secret Nazi police Gestapo in Lyon

(German-occupied France) and resided in Hotel Terminus. There

he and his Gestapo underlings conducted their interrogations of

detainees. Torture was applied on a regular basis (beatings,

drowning, burning, ice baths, forced watching of relatives or

friends being tortured, etc.). Many victims report that Barbie

seemed to get a kick out of inflicting pain on them.



Barbie was known as the "butcher of Lyon". Hotel Terminus

became a symbol of the last stop before death and for the total

loss of humanity. The film shows interviews with Barbie's victims,

class mates, neighbours, subordinates, sympathisers and business

partners.



Marcel Ophuls has gone to great lengths to arrive at a very

detailed portrayal of Klaus Barbie, contrasting statements

from different interviews, also revealing some aspects of the

occupation in France during the war and Barbie's life after

the war.



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