Serge & Beate Klarsfeld, Heroic Nazi Hunters Still Fighting For Justice

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- France24, English, 6 mins.: Serge and Beate Klarsfeld are France's most famous Nazi hunters. They have just published their memoirs, recounting their decades spent tracking down Hitler's henchmen and dragging them out of hiding into the public glare.
Serge Klarsfeld is a Romanian-born Jew whose father was killed at Auschwitz and Beate is the daughter of a former German soldier. (2015).

- Fierce Nazi hunters: Serge & Beate Klarsfeld on the combat of their lives. 8 mins. (2015). They look like any other elderly couple. But Beate Klarsfeld, 76, and her husband Serge, 79, are two of the most fearsome Nazi hunters the world has ever seen. For decades, they have travelled the planet to bring Hitler's henchmen to justice, including notorious figures such as the 'Butcher of Lyon' Klaus Barbie. Their story began with a chance meeting on the Paris Metro in 1960 - between a French Jewish man and a German non-Jewish woman.
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- BEATE Klarsfeld, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beate_Klarsfeld

- AWARDS, Beate Klarsfeld:

1974: Beate Klarsfeld received the Israeli "Bravery medal of the Ghetto fighters"
1984: French President François Mitterrand named her a Knight of the Legion of Honour
2007: French President Jacques Chirac named her an Officer of the Legion of Honour
2009: She received the Georg-Elser Prize [de]
2011: President Sarkozy awarded her the National Order of Merit
2013: French President Francois Hollande named her Commander of the Legion of Honour
2015: She and her husband Serge received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, first class
2016: Beate received honorary Israeli citizenship
2018: National Jewish Book Award in the Book of the Year category for Hunting the Truth: Memoirs of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld...

- SERGE Klarsfeld, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serge_Klarsfeld
.. Later activism: They are notable in the postwar decades for having been involved in hunting and finding German Nazis and French Vichy officials responsible for the worst abuses of the Holocaust, in order to prosecute them for alleged war crimes. Several officials were indicted due in part to the work of the Klarsfelds; they included the following, with the years of their convictions or deaths in parentheses:
Klaus Barbie (1987), René Bousquet (1993), Jean Leguay (1989), Maurice Papon (1998), Paul Touvier (1994)
In the 1970s the Klarsfelds considered kidnapping Klaus Barbie in much the same way the Mossad did Eichmann but the plan fell through. They decided instead to bring international pressure to force his extradition...

- MORE about the Klarsfelds,
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016292972