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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1990
ith her well-coiffed
blond hair and pink
wool sweater, Beate
Klarsfeld looks more like a
chic French housewife than
the famed Nazi-hunter.
Her efforts have unearthed
and brought to trial people
such as Klaus Barbie, serv-
ing a life sentence for depor-
ting more than 7,000 Jews to
death camps; Kurt Lischke,
former chief of the Gestapo
in France now finishing a
10-year sentence; and Josef
Schwammberger, currently
on trial in Germany for
allegedly supervising and
participating in the deaths
of hundreds of Jews at forced
labor camps in Poland.
It is the stuff from which
movies have been made —
and one about her life was —
yet she recounts the tales in
a soft-spoken voice with a
hint of a smile, as if her ac-
tions, those of a German-
born Christian woman, were
not uncommon.
Names and dates and ar-
rests and demonstrations
tumble over each other, from
protests against Austrian
President Kurt Waldheim,
linked with deportations in
Yugoslavia, to her agitation
in Chile against Walter
Rauff, the now-dead Nazi
who devised the mobile gas
vans that killed 97,000 peo-
ple.
She identified Alois
Brunner, Adolf Eichmann's
chief aide who has been
hiding in Syria for over 30
years; traveled to Beirut to
offer herself in place of
Lebanese Jews held hostage;
and campaigned against an-
ti-Semitism on almost every
continent.
She dismisses as unimpor-
tant the arrests, the nasty
phone calls, the threatening
letters, the parcel bomb
police safely neutralized and
the car bomb they did not.
"We came into this busi-
ness because it was
necessary, because there
wasn't anybody else doing it,
because it was some kind of
obligation," says the 51-
year-old Ms. Klarsfeld, who
together with her husband,
Serge, has spent decades un-
covering the very lives
former Nazis and their
collaborators have worked to
bury in their post-war rise to
respectability.
Their tactics start with
meticulous research and
documentation and, when
the facts are known, the sur-
vivors located and the iden-
tity assured, they move in
with public protests, some-
thing that often embarrasses
the host country into star-
ting extradition or criminal
proceedings.
"A lot of people get em-
barrassed over what we do
even though they admire us
for our work, but this is our
way to act, and as a German,
I am showing the type of
responsibility my generation
should have had," she ex-
plains, sitting in a New York
office.
What brought her out of
Paris this time was a series
of lectures and plans to
organize demonstrations
against Fred Leuchter, a
self-proclaimed engineer and
"We came into this
business because
it was necessary,
because there
wasn't anybody
else doing it."
— Beate Klarsfeld
expert on executions who
had published a book claim-
ing that, based on scientific
evidence, the gas chambers
of Auschwitz and Majdanek
were really disinfection
booths.
The State of
Massachusetts has arraign-
ed Mr. Leuchter on charges
of practicing engineering
without a license, which
observers believe was partly
a response to pressure from
Holocaust groups that had
worked to make his revi-
sionist sentiments known,
and in so doing, exposed his
lack of engineering
qualifications.
Ms. Klarsfeld, along with
about 50 people trailed by 15
journalists, stood outside the
courthouse Oct. 23, placards
in hand. Soon after Mr.
Leuchter entered a plea of
innocent, Ms. Klarsfeld left
to give her lectures before
flying back home, with plans
to return for the pre-trial
hearings Dec. 11.
This Nazi-hunter, this
woman who shocked the
world in 1968 by publicly
slapping German Chancellor
Kurt-Georg Kiesinger after
uncovering his work for Nazi
radio propaganda, began her
ascent into activism as a 21-