1. Beate Klarsfeld's parents were not Nazis, according to Klarsfeld; however, they had voted for the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.
42 Facts About Beate Klarsfeld
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Beate Klarsfeld's father was drafted in the summer of 1939 into the infantry.
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In 1960, Beate Klarsfeld Kunzel spent a year as an au pair in Paris.
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In 1963, she married the French lawyer and historian Serge Beate Klarsfeld, whose father was a victim of the Auschwitz concentration camp exterminations.
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Beate Klarsfeld has said that her husband helped her to become "a German of conscience and awareness".
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In 1964 Beate Klarsfeld began work as a secretary at the new Franco-German Youth Office.
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Beate Klarsfeld accused Kiesinger of being a member of the board of Inter Radio AG, which had been buying foreign radio stations for propaganda purposes.
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Beate Klarsfeld asserted that Kiesinger had been chiefly responsible for the contents of German international broadcasts which included anti-Semitic and war propaganda, and had collaborated closely with SS functionaries Gerhard Ruhle and Franz Alfred Six.
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Beate Klarsfeld alleged that Kiesinger had continued to produce anti-Semitic propaganda even after becoming aware of the extermination of the Jews.
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Beate Klarsfeld was eventually supported by the publication of a brochure with a circulation of 30,000 copies.
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Beate Klarsfeld, who presented Kiesinger as a major threat to Germany, promised those present to try to slap him publicly.
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Beate Klarsfeld appealed against the verdict, which in late 1969, was reduced to four months in prison, which were suspended on probation.
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Beate Klarsfeld justified the act in a poem that she recorded on 23 November 1968, saying that her slap was on behalf of 50 million dead of World War II as well as for future generations.
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Beate Klarsfeld wanted it to be understood as a slap in the "repulsive face of ten million Nazis".
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Beate Klarsfeld was accompanied by her mother on 11 November 1968 in Brussels where two days later Kiesinger was to speak on the evening of 13 November 1968 to the Grandes Conferences Catholiques.
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Beate Klarsfeld was advised to leave the country by the Belgian police.
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In February 1971 Beate Klarsfeld demonstrated in front of the Charles University in Prague against "Stalinisation, persecution and anti-Semitism".
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Beate Klarsfeld planned to hand him over to justice in Paris, as a previous conviction in France blocked further legal action against Lischka in Germany.
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Beate Klarsfeld turned herself in to the German authorities, saying that they must arrest either her or Lischka.
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In 1984 and 1985 Beate Klarsfeld toured the military dictatorships of Chile and Paraguay, to draw attention to the search for the suspected Nazi war criminals Walter Rauff and Josef Mengele.
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Beate Klarsfeld attended his campaign events and after his election she disrupted his appearances in Istanbul and Amman, where she was supported by the World Jewish Congress.
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Beate Klarsfeld rated this success as the most important result of their actions.
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In 2001, through the efforts of Beate Klarsfeld, Brunner was sentenced by a French court in absentia to life imprisonment.
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In July 2001, Beate Klarsfeld called for a demonstration in Berlin against the state visit of the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
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Beate and Serge Klarsfeld published a commemorative book in which the names of over 80,000 victims of the Nazi era in France are listed.
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Since 2008, Beate Klarsfeld has been, together with Michel Cullin of France, a member of the International Council of the Austrian Service Abroad and has supported the memorial service of young Austrians in Holocaust memorials and Jewish museums around the world.
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In 2020, Beate Klarsfeld approached the then German minister of Defence, Ursula von der Leyen, to stop honoring the Nazi-war criminals in the largest Nazi-cemetery in Europe in Ysselsteyn ; In 2021 the new German ambassador indeed stopped all forms of honoring such as wreath laying.
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Beate Klarsfeld remained friends with Marlene Dietrich until the German film star's death in 1992.
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Beate Klarsfeld stated that she felt fully supported by The Left in the fight against fascism.
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Beate Klarsfeld did not publish a program for her administration in case of her winning, she did say she wanted to improve the image of Germany.
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Beate Klarsfeld had announced, she would support Incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy in the 2012 French presidential election.
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Beate Klarsfeld is not troubled to "candidate for The Left of all things" although she would have preferred a nomination by the CDU or the SPD.
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Beate Klarsfeld had indeed supplied no reports and had not been a player, but did receive material from the Ministry of State Security.
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In 1991, former Stasi officers Gunter Bohnsack and Herbert Brehmer made public in an article for Der Spiegel that Beate Klarsfeld received the "incriminating evidence against the former Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger" from East Germany.
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The "Plan with the slap" have Beate Klarsfeld "probably concocted itself"; he knew nothing about it before it is executed.
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Beate Klarsfeld confirmed that she was not an informer, she said the German Democratic Republic offered her access to archives about Nazi criminals in Potsdam.
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On 5 March 2012, Beate Klarsfeld was elected by the Saxon parliament on the list of the Left Group as one of 33 people election as member of the 15th Federal Assembly in 2012.
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Norden announced that a week after the slap against Kiesinger, Beate Klarsfeld should be provided 2000 DM "for further initiatives".
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Beate Klarsfeld said she never worked on behalf of East Germany but on her own behalf.
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Beate Klarsfeld answer was interpreted by Welt online as an indirect and first-time admission that she had once actually received the 2000 D-Mark.
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The general secretary of the CSU, Alexander Dobrindt, called Beate Klarsfeld a "SED puppet".
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Beate Klarsfeld opposed equating GDR and Nazism, calling it legitimate that Klarsfeld was supported in her "fight against Nazis" by France, Israel, and by East Germany.