Hunting the Truth

CONTENTS

Copyright Notice

Abbreviations Used in the Text

A German Childhood

Encounter at a Metro Station

Hunted by the Gestapo

Arno, My Father

Raïssa and Her Children

Return to Paris

A German Girl Named Beate

1965, At Auschwitz-Birkenau: The Decisive Moment

Typist and Activist

Fired by the Youth Office

The Case Against Kiesinger

Further Discoveries

A Reunified German

The Kiesinger Campaign Diary

Achenbach’s Turn

Protest in Poland

And Now for the Czechs …

No More Impunity for Nazi Criminals in France

Hunting Lischka

The Kurt Lischka Dossier

The Herbert Hagen Dossier

Operation Lischka

Who Is on Trial Here?

Passing the Baton

Hunting Klaus Barbie

Protest in Munich

Barbie, A.K.A. Altmann

Unmasking the Butcher of Lyon

The Letter Bomb

Shooting Lischka

The Failed Abduction of Barbie

Arrested in Dachau, Tried in Cologne

Campaigning in Damascus

In Search of Irrefutable Proof

Battling Dictators in Argentina and Uruguay

Targeting Bousquet and Leguay

The Cologne Trial

Justice and Memory

Bringing Barbie Back to Lyon

The Papon Affair

Confronting Holocaust Denial

Tracking Down Alois Brunner

The Barbie Trial

The Hunt for Josef Mengele

The Kurt Waldheim Affair

The Muslim Sector of Beirut

In the Lion’s Den

Hunting Brunner in Damascus

The End of the Brunner Affair

Defending the Romanies in Rostock

Dear Mr. President …

Touvier Arrested, Bousquet Charged

The Touvier Trial

Trying to Reason with War Criminals in Bosnia

A Presidential Candidate

Compensating the Orphans

The Truth About Pétain

There Can Be No Compromise with Historical Truth

Battling the New Anti-Semitism

Lighthouses in an Ocean of Forgetting

Voices That Can Still Be Heard

Acknowledgments

Also by Beate and Serge Klarsfeld

A Note About the Authors