Headline May 25th, 2012 / The Master Hunter of France

THE MASTER 'HUNTER' OF FRANCE

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Arno Klarsfeld looks a Film Star. He glows where he stands! BUt this glow could so easily be one of his missions true attributes. The one of final judgement!!! Arno Klarsfeld is the last of Nazi Hunters !!! So, lest I write any further let me deeply thank !WOW! for uncovering this splendid piece of research for International delight. Arno Klarsfeld has many memories. Some for sure are nightmarish. Take the one from 1969 in Germany. He was 3 years old and he was being carried by his mother, his arms around her shoulders, on the street outside a building where a political convention was being held. His mother was demonstrating. She had her right arm thrust into the air and she was chanting a slogan while the news camera recorded the event. Arno still remembers what she was shouting : "Kiesenger Nazi. Kiesenger Resign!" There's a yellowing photograph of the incident, from a right wing newspaper of the era. The photo is captioned. "Die Schlechte Erziehungder Jungere Klarsfeld" - The bad education of the young Klarsfeld. There are other memories too, other instances of her 'bad education'. There is the memory of his young German mother, Beate Klarsfeld, slapping the face of the then Chancellor Kurt - George Kiesenger, of a former official of the Nazi government in the name of 'the youth of Germany'

and then there is the memory of his French father Serge Klarsfeld visiting the ruins of Auschwitz death camp where Arno's grandfather died in the holocaust. That Serge and Beate Klarsfeld - him a French jew and she a German Christian - were among the most famous of the post war Nazi hunters meant little to Arno then.  He went to Lycee and university and then joined the French Bar. He went to New York University, then passed the New York and California Bar Exams.With these credentials he became an International business lawyer and worked in Wall Street. While Arno was growing up, his parents were continuing their lives' work. They successfully agitated for changes in the law, in France and in Germany, that would make it easier to prosecute war criminals. They flew to Syria to press for the extradition of Allois Brunner, who was one the deputy commander of the Drancy Concetration Camp in France. And who organised numerous deportations, where they were arrested by the Syrian police. They discovered Klaus Barbie, the former Lyons Gestapo Commander, in hiding in South America and succeeded in having him extradited to France, where Serge led the team tht successfully prosecuted him. Don't miss morrow's nerve-wrecking headline post.  Good night and God bless!

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