Overview

• Stanford University has made public 14 hours of 1979 audio recordings of Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie, conducted by German journalist Gerd Heidemann in Bolivia.
• Barbie claims in the recordings that French Resistance leader Jean Moulin was not tortured but died by suicide in Montluc prison in 1943, contradicting previous accounts.
• He describes Moulin repeatedly ramming his head into a wall while bound, leading to a fatal skull fracture during transport to Frankfurt.
• Historians, including Bénédicte Vergez-Chaignon, find this version plausible, noting that Montluc prison's architecture challenges earlier suicide theories.
• Barbie also recounts political conversations with Moulin, expressing respect for his intelligence and resolve, while admitting failed attempts to extract information from him.