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Beate Klarsfeld

Franco-German journalist and anti-Nazi activist

Beate Klarsfeld

Klarsfeld in 2015

Born

Beate Auguste Künzel


(1939-02-13) 13 February 1939 (age 85)

Berlin, Nazi Germany

NationalityGerman
Political partyThe Left
Spouse
Children2

Beate Auguste Klarsfeld (née Künzel; born 13 February 1939) is a Franco-Germanjournalist and Nazi hunter who, along with her French husband, Serge, became famous for their investigation and documentation of numerous Nazi war criminals, including Kurt Lischka, Alois Brunner, Klaus Barbie, Ernst Ehlers [de] and Kurt Asche.

In March 2012, she ran as the candidate for The Left in the 2012 German presidential election against Joachim Gauck, but lost by 126 to 991.

Biography

Early life

Beate Auguste Künzel was born in Berlin, the only child of Kurt Künzel, an insuranceclerk, and his wife, Helen. Her parents were not Nazis, according to Klarsfeld; however, they had