In 1983 the former head of the Gestapo, Klaus Barbie, was arrested. Robert Badinter recounts the ambivalent feeling he had when he realised that by abolishing the death penalty two years earlier he had just saved the life of the man who ...See moreIn 1983 the former head of the Gestapo, Klaus Barbie, was arrested. Robert Badinter recounts the ambivalent feeling he had when he realised that by abolishing the death penalty two years earlier he had just saved the life of the man who had signed his father's deportation order to the Sobibor extermination camp.
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