Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie

When most people hear the word Barbie they think of a plastic blond doll with all the right curves. Unfortunately, most people do not ordinarily know the name of Klaus Barbie, the infamous “Butcher of Lyon,” one of the Gestapo’s top men in France. Klaus Barbie originally intended to study theology and became a teacher but fate sprung him and instead his name has permanently entered the history books as the personification of evil, at least according to Jewish filmmakers like Marcel Ophüls. Ophüls, being a French Jew, must have felt a special calling when he decided to make the documentary Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie, an over 4-hour long documentary about Barbie. Marcel Ophüls is probably best known from Woody Allen’s Annie Hall, where Woody makes reference of the French-Jewish director’s documentary The Sorrow and The Pity. 

 

It is clear from the get-go that director Marcel Ophüls is dedicated in his documentary Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie to present Barbie, as well as most Europeans, in a light of the most despicable and depraved evil. Those that are not evil are just portrayed as ignorant barbarians with the incapacity for any type of intellectual or abstract thought. For example, when questioning a German farmer about the young Klaus Barbie, Ophüls questions whether or not Barbie was the much liked and loved little boy as portrayed by childhood neighbors. Ophüls writes-off the peoples love of the young Sonny (Barbie’s childhood nickname) as the result of his Father being a local and well respected teacher. In fact, throughout the documentary, aside from Jews and French “Resistance”(aka Communists) fighters, most people have kind words to say about the young and old Klaus Barbie. It becomes apparent though the documentary that Ophüls is extremely annoyed by this occurrence, but what really sets him off is how many Europeans bring up the fact that Barbie’s “crimes against humanity” were committed over 40 years ago. Obviously, these silly goy Europeans do not understand the Jewish tradition of an “eye for an eye (or two)” bloodthirsty vengeance.

Apparently, while the Germans and Italians stayed in Germany during World War II, they were known for being great tippers (or at least they were at Hôtel Terminus). This makes one wonder whether or not a Frenchman could spot whether one was a Jew or not by their generosity in regards to gratuity. It has been said that Klaus Barbie was fairly generous with his whip but I digress and now have to ask the question, was Klaus Barbie really the monster Marcel Ophüls portrays him as? Knowing Klaus Barbie had a very important job as a SS- Hauptsturmführer, one just comes to expect a little bit of blood, death, and torture. When one also compares Klaus Barbie to his Communist enemies, whether it be in France or Soviet Eastern Europe, he seems like a fairly reasonable killer. How many Americans know about Jewish mass murderers like Béla Kun, Lazar Kaganovich, Genrikh Yagoda or Yakov Sverdlov, individuals responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of white Russians and Eastern European people. We never hear a word about these dubious ghetto characters yet people like Klaus Barbie are put on a kosher pedestal of pure evil. 

Although not mentioned in Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie, it is been recently noted in the Kevin Macdonald documentary My Enemies Enemy that Barbie may have helped the American CIA capture and execute corporate Marxist-icon Che Guevara and for that alone, Klaus Barbie should at least get some recognition as a fighter for the Occidental and destroyer of Marxist culture-distorting scum. After all, it would be much nicer to see teenagers wearing t-shirts with Klaus Barbie’s infamous Gestapo picture on it as opposed to the swarthy face of Che Guevara. Throughout Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie, Marcel Ophüls makes a special point of portraying the United States Government, CIA and other U.S. departments as “men with their hands dirty” for putting evil Nazis like Klaus Barbie on the payroll. Personally, I think the most disgraceful thing the United States ever did was align itself with the Soviet Union during the second World War and the late great General Patton felt the same way, dying tragically in an automobile accident shortly after making his opinion on the barbarism of the Soviets and dubious character of the Judaic known.

One SS man, a German hero that was awarded The Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross, lets it be known in Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie that there is no way Klaus Barbie can be an evil man because his pet Dachshund dogs showed great love towards Barbie. I must admit that I also have a soft spot for dog lovers but not so much for Philo-Semites. Klaus Barbie maybe was not a Philo-Semite but apparently he did not have an irrational hatred of Jews like most individuals would suspect knowing his Gestapo background. While living in Bolivia, Mr. Barbie had no problem doing business with Jews and even harboring them as associates. Like Hans Landa in Inglorious Basterds, Klaus Barbie was competent at hunting Jews and Communists in France but he was not a fanatic Jew-hater. When it comes down to it, Barbie’s only crime was that Germany lost the war because if the Krauts won the war, such modern inventions as “war criminals” would not exist. Going back to General Patton, he believed that the Nuremberg trials were anti-Christian and blatantly Judaic, certainly not part of the noble tradition of European war. The Soviet Union and the Allies no doubt had their fair share of mass murdering “war criminals,” yet they will never be “brought to justice” like those damn evil NATZIS!

In Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie, Herr Barbie makes it clear that there is no such things as “Nazis.” By this, Barbie is addressing the fact that the word “Nazi” is a derogatory slang term invented by the enemies of National Socialism. Certainly, the average American is unaware of this as the media, Hollywood, and American public schools use the term “Nazi” when describing The National Socialists. If one cannot not even address a well known political party without resorting to childish slang in an academic setting, it is quite apparent that the bias against that group is so immense that one is going to have to dig very deeply for an objective view of history. Hollywood mainstream comedy trash cinema like the Rat Race, starring the grotesquely Jewish Jon Lovitz, is a great example of the Jewish obsession with denigrating ones enemies into oblivion (it is no coincidence that all Jewish holidays are celebrations of destroying the enemy of the Jews and self-worship). In the film, Lovitz and his obscenely unpleasant and overweight family accidentally stroll into a Nazi museum thinking it is a Barbie doll museum. Unsurprisingly, this short scene does more to shit on the legacy of Klaus Barbie, especially when considering the average American movie-going philistine, than the whole over 4-hour long Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie documentary. Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie is a documentary I can recommend to anyone interested in The Third Reich, for Marcel Ophüls certainly failed in regards to his documented smear campaign.

-Ty E