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A place for antifascist activism and discussion. Share articles, tips, ask questions. While this is a general community, we hope to be able to help people directly as well. Do you have a friend you want to deradicalize? Would you like book recommendations to understand fascism better? Feel free to ask! As Lemmy is quite open in its rules, we are also allowed to organise activism here as long as it's legal under the law. Is the KKK meeting in a hotel conference room? Give us the address, and the phone number so we can tell the hotel.
portside.org
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2425113 > We have to stop Project 2025... > > But I feel powerless at times.
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2210352 > >White supremacy lost in Oklahoma tonight. > > ---- > > Honestly, this was a good thing and shows that people are waking up to the creeping fascist threat. > > As communists, we must try to be a guiding force and helping hand in the fightback against fascism.
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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1735872 > That's just the title; the video has more to do with other stuff than just Taylor Swift LMAO > > But yeah, enjoy, comrades.
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1596304 > [@Othello@hexbear.net](https://hexbear.net/u/Othello) You might want to be aware of this, Othello. > > Anyway, disregard what was shown [here](https://hexbear.net/post/1463515). > > And please, PLEASE practice good OpSec and wear a mask and maybe some headgear. > > See if you can use Mullvad VPN on your phone. > > Element and Signal are good for communications. > > Give false details about yourself (like, false quantifiers, for example). > > Anyway, let's hope for the best, comrades, and good luck to you.
www.peoplesworld.org
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1463907 > Jamal Rich's articles are great and never miss.
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1463446 > Put it on your calendar (of which ever sort you use). > > Maybe write it on a white-board in your room like I do (or chalkboard or whatever). > > Whether you bring communist garb is up to you but we have to be there to support them. > > If anyone wants something to add, let me know. > > Also: > > Give events happening in whatever country you're from to help out. > > Or just point stuff out from other countries. > > Please make sure not to give possibly doxxing info.
www.peoplesworld.org
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1462704 > We are not talking about the "New Jim Crow." > > We're talking about the old one.
www.peoplesworld.org
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/799324 > From the articl (about three fourths, to be exact): > > >ATLANTA—On Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023, members of the Union for Southern Service Workers (USSW) gathered in a downtown Atlanta parking lot on a brisk early fall morning. As union members rubbed their hands together and joked about being underdressed, many held protest signs, megaphones, or carts carrying water bottles. > > > >Their mission? > > > >To march on a Georgia State University (GSU) Waffle House location and raise the demand for a guaranteed $25/hour pay rate for all workers. They aren’t alone in their struggle. Across the South, in cities such as Durham, N.C., and Orangeburg, S.C., USSW members and allies would soon be marching on other Waffle House locations to raise the same demands. The Atlanta USSW rally was just the kick-off for a day of regional action. > > > >On Sept. 9, USSW members and GSU Waffle House workers delivered a letter to the location management calling for better pay and workplace safety. Their request fell on deaf ears, however, and union members knew it was time for action. > > > >As GSU students held out their phones to film the action, the USSW marched towards the Waffle House in a tight formation to the tune of various union songs and chants. Upon arriving at the location, supporters cheered on the marchers as they packed inside the restaurant waving a banner reading: “Our Dedication Deserves Dignity, PAY US $25!” > > > >Supporters gathered around USSW member Mo Haskins as he read a list of demands: a guaranteed wage of $25/hour for all employees, 24-hour security at all Waffle House locations, and an end to the meal deductions that are taken off each employee’s paycheck, regardless of whether they eat shift meals or not. > > > >The rally finished off with several USSW members, including GSU Waffle House workers, delivering remarks to the crowd and their co-workers about why they deserve higher wages and safer working conditions. > > > >Speakers also addressed the fact that Waffle House executives sit on the board of the Atlanta Police Foundation, and are using company profits to fund a militarized police training facility known as “Cop City.” If Cop City is built, close to 300 acres of forest will be torn down in metro Atlanta to build a $90 million dollar police training complex where police would practice raids on fake schools, homes, and barber shops. > > > >As the speakers wrapped up, the crowd erupted into more union tunes, each of which called for the pay raises and other demands. As the USSW members filed outside, members spoke to the crowd about the unsafe working conditions and unfair wage practices Waffle House employees endure. > > > >One worker reported that Waffle House failed to cover replacement costs when a customer stole her phone; other employees reported having to deal with customer assaults with little accountability or protection by Waffle House. > > > >Red, a GSU Waffle House server, expounded on the meal deductions and low wages that come with every paycheck. Red said Waffle House “nickel and dimes us for everything, but they don’t want to give the nickels and dimes back.” According to her, “Even if you eat or not” while working, “they’re gonna charge you ten dollars” per paycheck. > > ---- > > The rest of it you can read in the link.
www.peoplesworld.org
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/798651 > Interesting article. Bayard Rustin was also an anti-communist but considered himself a socialist. He was often lumped in with "the Establishment." He did work with MLK, Jr., who himself worked with communists, but he was considered to the right of MLK. Still, he did leave a legacy and was considered good a politicking and getting what he and his constituency wanted, from what I understand.
I found an information, that Klaus Barbie, the sadistic head of gestapo in Lyon, was an U$ spy, but Wikipedia tells nothing about it, it only gives a criptic link at the bottom to der Spigel article: https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/from-nazi-criminal-to-postwar-spy-german-intelligence-hired-klaus-barbie-as-agent-a-740393.html The Spigel article says that Americans helped flee Barbie to Bolivia in 1951. In some Polish source I found that in 1951 he fleed to Argentina, with the help of catholic bishop Alois Hudal (the one who helped dr Mengele), and then Barbie fleed to Bolivia. This is so dirty I want to vomit.
My first night in Valhalla My ancestors will ask me How did you die? And I’ll say fighting fascists My first night in Valhalla The allfather will ask me What manner of battle did you die in? And I’ll say I died a guérilla My first night in valhalla My ancestors will ask me What battle did you die in? And I’ll say I died in the class war
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/853128 > BreadTube is a place to check out left videos, discuss content from creators, and share memes and ideas. > > - [BreadTube](/c/breadtube@lemmy.world) > - !BreadTube@lemmy.world > - lemmy.world/c/breadtube
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1539337 > The screenshot shows the recommendations from https://join-lemmy.org/. > > Still being federated with exploding-heads does not mean the instance supports them. > But it means that shit-heads are allowed to take part in the discussions on their communities. > They do intoxicate the discussions we will have. > They will attack minorities. > Maybe you will not be harassed by them, more vulnerable people will be. > They are allowed to moderate communities on these instances. > Exploding-heads members actively guide young and unknowing people to their hateful instance. > > They try to start discussions about the holocaust https://sh.itjust.works/post/227268. > They create communities only to crosspost exploding-heads content https://lemmy.world/c/pharma > They take over discussions against them https://exploding-heads.com/comment/132189 "WHY are vulnerable people joining a decentralized system? Isnt this why you want a closed, not for public eyes community?" > > This was a link to exploding-heads, because when someone copies a permalink of a comment from them on another instance, it will be a link to their instance. > > Are we building a place where vulnerable people are welcome and safe or are we building a place where nazis are welcome and safe? > > They want you to block them, they comment that everywhere. They block people who are in favor of defederating them https://sh.itjust.works/post/225714 > When their opponents won't see them anymore, they can harass and recruit without being noticed. > > Blocking will not solve the problem. They will spread even when you close your eyes. > > ~~Maybe this was not done intentionally, but now~~ there is a post with a list of 'health communities on Lemmy' with the first entry guiding to exploding heads. https://lemmy.world/post/396561 > > > It is still possible that some of the mentioned instances do support them. > The owner of sh.itjust.works says that because of “free speech” all other instances would be allowed. It is suspicious to me that his line is drawn only for lemmygrad https://sh.itjust.works/comment/130474 > > >The decision to block the Lemmygrad instance was less a question of censorship, and more an issue of personal conviction. As a volunteer dedicating my personal resources and time to facilitating a space for users to create, discover, and discuss - not just on this instance, but across the Fediverse - I admit that this choice was made alone, selfishly, without the consent or thoroughly considering the collective opinion of the community. With the above said, sh.itjust.works has had the lemmygrad instance blocked from its first day. > > >I’d like to also point out that the lemmygrad instance has far more blocked instances than what is currently blocked here. Maybe you can create a post on that instance to see what that’s all about and report back? > > At the same time they seem to ignore the call and vote to defederate with exploding-heads https://sh.itjust.works/post/433483. > > They rejected to delete The_Donald from sh.itjust.works until they feared to get isolated from the other instances: https://lemmy.ml/post/1467310. > They where aware of The_Donald and ignored early warnings. (https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/266248). TD was more important to them than keeping the only mod of their 4th biggest community c/patientgamers (https://sh.itjust.works/post/291747, https://sh.itjust.works/post/388922) > > Since The_Donald was removed, I did not find more racist content on the mentioned servers. That is part their tactics. They act harmless but recruit to their instance, attract likeminded people and chase others away. Discussions on sh.itjust.works about such topics are very toxic already, soon they might be able to do more harm. > > (My research is very limited, as i could not search for all exploding-heads member content on other instances by entering their domain. I know there are nice communities on sh.itjust.works.) > > > What can be done? > On joinmastodon.org there is a Mastodon Server Covenant with very few useful rules, one of them is "Active moderation against racism, sexism, homophobia and transphobia". https://joinmastodon.org/covenant > It would be a first step to implement these rules for join-lemmy.org. > At least instances that want to be recommended on there should have to agree to that rule. > > More actions should be taken now. Please make suggestions. Things will only become more complicated. The next reddit wave is incoming. > > For those who did not already know: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance > > https://www.upworthy.com/bartender-explains-why-he-swiftly-kicks-nazis-out-of-his-punk-bar-even-if-theyre-not-bothering-anyone > > This is not the first time new platforms face these problems, do we really have to repeat the same mistakes? > > -Share/crosspost > > -Contact admins > > update: lemmy.word defederated eh
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>Antifascists arrived to the scene at 1:30pm, and SWS had already staged a large speaker system and had a handful of people in their crowd right outside the Lynnwood Event Center. Lynnwood PD had about 6 officers forming a line designated the area between the two protesting groups. All officers were facing antifascists at first, as if protecting their white supremacist brethren. They would later be directed to rotate every other officer to be facing the other side. > >An umbrella wall, speaker playing the gayest copyrighted music, and a bunch of local queers of all ages held our side with us. TERFs and III% spent most of their time and energy trying to capture photos of our mostly covered faces. SWS tried to have people give speeches, but our chanting and music drowned them out and prevented them from finishing. > >They played copyrighted music of their own, effectively preventing themselves from being able to livestream or use longer clips of their event. All [neo]fascist “reporters” tried their best to cut up their footage to make themselves look good, but they were not super successful. The copyrighted music made it hard to post to social media and with our umbrella wall and the police line they had trouble getting meme-able reactions from us that could go viral. > >At one point, the antifascists played the national anthem, and the song “Proud to be an American,” at which point the TERFs actually turned off their own music to sing along while the antifascists laughed at them. They could not reconcile being upset with us for playing it and their need to stand with their hand over their heart and cry that we were anti-American terrorists. > >It was estimated that the fash had around 70 people on their side at peak of the protest, with antifascists having more. Due to the inequitable space provided for the counter-protest, the fash were able to spread out more and make themselves appear bigger. But cameras don’t lie, and their own drone footage showed how much we outnumbered them.
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>Aside from a friend that was injured and a church community intimidated by the prospect of having been made into a hate lightning rod by the far-Right, it was an undisputed win.
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>In videos posted to social media online, antifascist protesters could be seen holding banners reading, “Never Again” and “Your Hate Is Not Welcome Here,” as Ryan Messano attempted to take the podium. In response, the Sacramento City Council was shut down, as the crowd erupted into shouting as the neo-Nazi wearing a Goyim Defense League shirt was seen throwing up a Hitler salute. > >[…] > >Community and housing advocates have been rallying at the Sacramento City Council in the last few weeks, demanding the city address the ongoing attacks on the houseless community. Attempts by Messano and other neo-Nazis to hijack these meetings to spew their racist and anti-Semitic conspiracies only serve to advance the same interests of wealthy developers and city bureaucrats who are pushing to steamroll the poor.
itsgoingdown.org
>According to [*The Tribune*](https://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/article275394261.html), the counter-protest came together after several community members saw a group of four masked neo-Nazis holding a banner over a freeway overpass and one individual was seen giving a “raised…arm…“sieg heil” salute.”
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>Recently, we have formed a news agency under the name “M.A.R.T. Corp.” to reflect our position from Ukraine and Russia to progressive forces abroad. > >The news agency M.A.R.T. Corp. expresses an independent view from the broad circles of the Ukrainian people who are opposed to the Kiev authorities. We wholeheartedly welcome and support the launch of a major campaign by the public of the United States and other countries for peace in Ukraine, in particular, the event of March 18. > >For our part, we are looking for opportunities to express the opinion of Ukrainian citizens in support of the movement for peace in Western countries and ask them to voice the following points of our views at your event: > >1. The Kiev regime uses chemical weapons in the conflict zone in Ukraine, in violation of all existing conventions on the prohibition of chemical weapons. This may provoke asymmetrical retaliatory measures on the part of Russia. >2. At the same time, U.S. President Joe Biden is inflating the Pentagon budget to the detriment of U.S. residents. The ruling circles of the United States are curtailing a number of projects to support socially vulnerable segments of the population, primarily people of color and the unemployed. >3. The regime of dictator Zelensky in Ukraine is based on power dictatorship and repression. Dictator Zelensky, for the sake of preserving his undivided power, wants to drag the NATO countries and the European Union together with the United States, into an all-out war with Russia, where there will be no winner. >4. If peace is established in Ukraine, the dictatorship of Zelensky is over! The Kiev regime has no interest in peace in Ukraine. > >The present-day U.S. and British politics of sanctions must end! The sanctions do not stop the conflict. They [serve] to prolong the conflict in Ukraine for the benefit of ruling elites in the U.S. and Britain! We ask you to voice these views and, if possible, depict one or more of these points on your posters. > >This will express your solidarity with the struggle of the Ukrainian opposition for peace in Ukraine and show the dictatorial regime of Kiev that the opposition is alive and capable of action and not completely destroyed in the dungeons of the Kiev security forces, in bloody repressions and prisons! > >Later, having received from you links, photos and videos of your event, where the views of the Ukrainian opposition were demonstrated, transmitted from M.A.R.T. Corp., we can distribute these photos and videos among the broad circles of the Ukrainian public, crushed by official propaganda, to clearly demonstrate support for our position from the people of the United States and other countries of the West.
The University will not block this speech, based on a theory that has been debunked many times and that has been on the basis of several mass shootings around the world, based on Nazi rhetoric. This is just a few weeks after a far right extremist in the city was shot and killed during a police raid. Multiple guns and plans to commit a terrorist attack have been found in his home. Leftist groups in the city have made a coalition to protest the speech and several hundred people have said to be willing to come to the protest. It's under heavy criticism due to 'freeze peach' and because a few days ago, the guy got punched at another speech in another city. Far right groups label us terrorists already and are becoming agressive. We will be there anyway, because hateful speech is a crime against humanity. I hope things will go well. No pasaran!
A petition has been set up and a counter protest is being planned. In the meantime the far right nationalist student club (yes, they are neonazi twats) are labeling our party as a terrorist club (apparently the person that pushed/punched the man was of our party).  Since the last call for action against the far right festival went well over here, I will keep you updated if I need your help <3
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Vid in article
itsgoingdown.org
>The Modesto experience shows both the strength of organizing autonomously, but also how hard it can be sometimes. Autonomous organizers have everything stacked against them: non-profits and local faith leaders push people not to protest, while the police join the attack on communities already under assault by the state and the far-right. While the media can bring attention to the threat of reactionary forces, more often it is simply interested in publishing click-bait and sensationalizing “both sides” without ruffling the feathers of those in power. The ability to go beyond and outside of all of these pitfalls demands of us not only infrastructure, legal observers, medics, communications, media, and beyond, but also the relationships and base building needed to actually organize — especially at a time when social media is hitting a wall of diminishing returns.
itsgoingdown.org
>In hopes of nipping the event in the bud, we moved to organize a phone zap, targeted at ASU president Michael Crow and the venue originally hosting the event. Despite the student body and broader community taking to the phones and emails en-masse, ASU’s response was predictable. Regardless of the threat it posed towards marginalized students and the widespread opposition to its continuation, the event would not be cancelled. Michael Crow himself stated via email, “Jared Taylor is one of many people today who exploit public forums of all types to engage in intentionally destructive and divisive rhetoric solely for the [sic] self-serving and attention getting purposes,” but that ASU was not able to refuse him a platform, due to restrictions placed upon them by state laws regulating the actions of public universities. > >We find this justification to be flimsy, at best. ASU has refused speakers, despite concerns around so-called free speech, for several reasons, including the example of [Mik Jordahl, who was banned from speaking due to his support of the anti-apartheid BDS movement](https://apnews.com/article/853ffd5dfe7f45b39fe713084bc438ed) and his refusal to sign a form stating he would not advocate for a boycott against Israel. It is clear to us that ASU picks and chooses who, exactly, receives the benefit of free speech on campus. They may find white supremacists somewhat distasteful to their liberal sensibilities, but they are acceptable guests, unlike those opposing ongoing genocide, even non-violently.
itsgoingdown.org
>At the end of the day, despite being vastly outnumbered by many different far-Right organizations, a relatively small group of activists were able to contain the threat to Hollywood and Vine and block the march from taking place. Their rally also ended two hours earlier than expected.
Hello, I will post this here as well The 27th of August, the Belgian city of Ypres (very important Battlefield in the world Wars) will host a far right music festival called Frontnacht. Performing on this festival will be bands that are linked to neonazi and fascist terrorist groups throughout Europe. Belgian left wing groups are now looking for ways to counter this. Several groups I know of will contact city officials to show their disgust. I don’t think anyone here can help with that, because it has to be somewhat legit. BUT: the festival also has a site where you can register to volunteer. It would be a shame if, let’s say, the site gets flooded with a massive amount of applications of non existing people. Here's the info: We can spam the organizers’ online form looking for volunteers with fake applications: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1MDt9IjvxBviLppXxInaQ0L4v2Z1jS9xeRxX33hRrq4Y/viewform?edit_requested=true The more the better. Make it impossible for them to sort through all of this, trying to figure out what is real and what isn’t. TIP for the last field in the form: Belgian mobile phone numbers always follow this format: 04XX XX XX XX. Open the form in private browsing, submit, reopen from private browsing. Don’t open from your normal browsing because if you are logged into google, you will give them your email address. Here’s lists of common Belgian first and last names: https://www.behindthename.com/top/lists/belgium (first names) https://surnam.es/belgium (last names) Proximus numbers begin with 047x, Base numbers with 048x, and Mobistar numbers with 049x.
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From the comments section of the subreddit thread: 
Eric Zemmour, a fascist polemicist in France who is probably on his way to become the next president of the country, is holding an event tomorrow: https://www.croiseedeschemins-ez.fr/nantes Because of covid, seats are limited and you have to register for it. The information you have to fill is: - First name (https://www.journaldesfemmes.fr/prenoms/francais/origine-39) - Last name (https://www.geneanet.org/genealogie/) - Email: mailinator.com email works, but there is actually no email confirmation so you could use a fake one. - phone number is NOT mandatory so just don't fill it. You could make one up in the format of 06 00 00 00 00 but imagine if some poor soul has that number and starts getting calls from a fascist lol. - postal code: use 44000, 44100, 44200, 44300. No VPN needed, and obviously don't use any real info when registering. Please don't all use the same names and postal code lol, use something like a random number generator (https://www.calculatorsoup.com/calculators/statistics/random-number-generator.php) to create yourself a fake french name.
angrywhitemen.org
Ladies and gentlemen, we got 'em.
www.peacelandbread.com
The article is 29 minutes long so definitely take a break here and there whenever you can or feel like it. I like how it invokes Bertolt Brecht and T.S. Eliot, two literary figures, on their way of writing. Definitely something to keep in mind for the potential fiction writes here, that is, me, [@felipeforte@lemmygrad.ml](https://lemmygrad.ml/u/felipeforte) and [@Vulpes@lemmygrad.ml](https://lemmygrad.ml/u/Vulpes) Anyways, I haven't finished the article yet but it seems pretty interesting.
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Klaus Barbie was head of the Gestapo in Lyon, France, during the occupation and was known as the Butcher of Lyon for his sadistic enjoyment of torture and killing. Under him, thousands of Jews and other French people were sent to death camps, chiefly of them Auschwitz. Even at the end of the war, while the Allies were advancing in on Lyon, he sent one last train filled with hundreds of people before fleeing the country. He adopted the named Klaus Altmann and was recruited by the United States Army Counter Intelligence Corps -- let that sink in -- to help fight against the USSR and "communism". For years, France sent extradition requests to prosecute him, without success. Then, one year, the United States replied that they had lost all traces of Klaus and that was that. Of course, they had exfiltrated him with help from the CIA because he was getting too much heat. He eventually ended up in Bolivia in 1951, publicly as a wood mill owner but secretly, and since the 1960s, Klaus was working for the Bolivian dictatorship to help them track opponents to the regime, mainly communists. Suspicions were mounting against Klaus Altmann. In his wood mill, he marked all tenth planks with a small swastika. Then, from 1966 to 1971, he headed the Compagnie Transmaritima Boliviana, the prime maritime shipping company in Bolivia who was also responsible for fuelling the drug and weapons trade in South America. In the 70s, it seems he was once again hired by the CIA. This was bringing him international attention, and people like the Klarsfeld couple, who made it their life mission to track ex-Nazis, were on his tail. It all culminated in 1972 with the video I linked above. French Journalist Ladislas de Hoyos was set on discovering Klaus once and for all. He organised an interview in Bolivia which, however, was to be heavily controlled by the Bolivian government. The questions were approved beforehand and they would be asked in Spanish. It would last only a few minutes and monitored by several Bolivian soldiers. This didn't deter Ladislas. He started the interview as agreed, asking simple questions like clarifying his identity as Klaus Altmann. Soon enough, he started asking him to say things in French like "I was not in the gestapo" or "I have never tortured". Already Klaus was showing some proficiency in French, as his answers were too confident for someone who, so the story went, lived in Berlin all his life as a manual labourer until he emigrated to Bolivia after the war. Then, Ladislas broke the rules and asked him a question in French: "Have you ever been to Lyon?". Without any hesitation, Klaus answered in German: "No, I've never been to Lyon". This was the second strike that betrayed his understanding of French. Finally, near the end of the interview, Ladislas handed Klaus pictures of Jean Moulin, probably the most famous resistance fighter in France who died during the war under Barbie's hand. Klaus denied knowing who this person was, but by holding the pictures, he left his fingerprints on them. Ladislas took them back, folded the pictures in half, and stored them in his jacket's inside pocket. By the end, the Bolivian forces understood what was going on and were getting agitated. The cameraman took the film out and gave them to the French consul, present during the interview. When the soldiers asked the journalists for the film, he happily handed them blank reels. They fled on car to the consulate, where the evidence was sent to France in a diplomatic baggage. There, they were able to confirm the prints taken from the pictures of Jean Moulin. Klaus Altman was finally proven to be nazi criminal Klaus Barbie. It would eventually take until 1983 and a change of government in Bolivia for Klaus to be extradited to France. He himself thought he was going back to Germany and so he wasn't worried (there is some evidence he worked for West Germany at some points). However, the plane led him to France where he was brought up on the charges against him as soon as he stepped off the plane. He was symbolically interned in the Montluc Prison, where he had tortured hundreds decades before. Two months later, he was condemned to life in prison by the court -- the death penalty had been abolished in France only two years earlier. Klaus' story is a reminder of what fascists will do. Any committed fascist is able and willing to do what Barbie did -- torture and send thousands to die. But it's also a reminder of the pervasive cocktail that is imperialism and fascism together. While the world remembers the liberation from the Nazis, we must remember that Nazis were allowed to flee their crimes with help from the USA, and were even employed and paid by them to help them kill communists (Operation Gladio comes to mind). There was never any liberation, there was never any denazification. They were just shuffled around and tried to be lost to time. And I haven't even delved into the whole situation in Bolivia which was fraught with regime change, fascism and Amerikan intervention (Operation Condor) for the decades that Barbie was living there and beyond. Indeed, Barbie died in prison in 1991. Many of us here were not born in 1991, much less in the 80s. This event was lost to time and yet, if there is one thing that exposes the unprincipled, imperialistic nature of Amerika, it must be his protection and employment by the CIA.