Volume 30, Number 18 · November 24, 1983

The 'Bildung' of Barbie

By Neal Ascherson

Certainly he remembered Klaus Barbie, said the old baron when I telephoned him. He had robbed the family of its jewels back in 1946, assisted by two other SS officers on the run. But the baron's sister knew more. Just you wait in your hotel room, he continued jovially, and I will fix a meeting with her and call you right back. What was the number of your room? Na schön...be patient and wait there for my call.



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