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On Tuesday, January 25, I reserved a seat on a flight
for the following Thursday night. But I had to have written proofs, and
Ludolph's information was only verbal. I called his house four or five times
that night. His wife was home alone, but she promised to give her husband my
message. At two A.M. he called me back and promised to give me an official
transcript.
At seven o'clock on Wednesday morning I was at Orly, and at
ten I reached Ludolph's house. We worked until seven o'clock that evening. At
my request he researched the matter of extradition in volumes on international
law, and gave me documentation on the agreements for it between France and Peru
in the laws of October 23, 1888, and July 28, 1924. We completed a report
establishing the identity of Altmann and Barbie, and the Munich Attorney
General signed it. Four essential proofs were included in it:
1. Klaus
Altmann's daughter Ute was born on June 30, 1941, in Kassel. The Registry
Office had no record of a Ute Altmann. On the other hand, Ute Barbie, daughter
of Klaus Barbie, was registered as having been born in Trier on June 30, 1941.
2. Klaus Altmann's son. Klaus-Georg, was born on December 11, 1946 in
Kasel, near Leipzig. Unfortunately for Altmann, Ludolph had carefully studied
the evidence. There was no district known as Kasel, but, on December 11, 1946,
a Klaus-Jörg, son of Klaus Barbie, had been born in Dr. Kuhn's hospital in
Kassel.
3. Klaus Altmann's wife was named Regina, and her maiden name
was Wilhelms. The succession of extraordinary coincidences continued: Klaus
Barbie's wife's name was Regina, née Willms.
4. The
anthropometrical examination that Professor Ziegelmayer of the Ethnographical
Institute of the University of Munich had made was contained in an exhaustive
report sixteen pages long.
My plane landed on Wednesday about eleven
P.M. The night was stormy. As usual, Serge was at Orly to meet me, and we spent
an hour telephoning London for a reservation on the London-Lima plane the next
morning and in getting my ticket adjusted accordingly. All this was due to
Serge's having foreseen that I must arrive in Lima on a day – a Friday
– when all offices would be open so that I could go into action at once.
Then we went to France-Soir, only to find that no one was the
least bit interested in our proofs of Altmann's and Barbie's identity. Agence
France Presse photocopied the report, but sent out no dis- […patch]
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