A brilliant and epic Academy Award-winning examination of the Nazi SS officer Klaus Barbie, the infamous “Butcher of Lyon,” Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie weaves together 40 years of footage and interviews culled from over 120 hours of discussion with former Nazis, American intelligence officers, South American government officials, victims of Nazi atrocities, and witnesses. Barbie, while Gestapo chief in Lyon, tortured and murdered resistance fighters and Jewish men, women, and children, and had thousands deported to death camps. After the war, he was protected by and worked with the U.S. Army and American intelligence officers, and was then allowed to hide in Bolivia, where he lived peacefully for thirty years as a businessman under the moniker Klaus Altmann. Only in 1987 was he brought to trial in a French courtroom in Lyon for crimes against humanity, thanks to the efforts of Serge and Beate Klarsfeld.