Blatant Lies: Jesper tells Klaus that the children started writing letters to Klaus for toys "completely unprompted". The ax-crazy Krum father takes a shot at Jesper but Klaus, coming out of nowhere, pulls the latter out of the bullet's way.

What Happened to the Mouse?: The bully kid isn't seen again after Jesper tells him about the naughty list. Barbie has been promoted to the rank of an expiatory victim, a scapegoat so that France can try and shed its own responsibility", argued defence lawyer, Jacques Verges. The US Department of Justice report to the US Senate in 1983 opens with the summary paragraph: [19] The children were innocents, she cried. “There can be no forgiveness, no forgetfulness, for this odious crime.” And Barbie was the man who must pay. Mrs Lea Feldblum, the survivor of the Izeu raid, was deported with the children but survived Auschwitz. Describing their arrival at the extermination camp, she said: “the children went to the left (to the gas chambers), me, they pushed to the right.”Meanwhile, family elders Aksel Ellingboe and Tammy Krum form a temporary truce, wanting to stop Jesper and Klaus so that the families can resume their traditional feud. Together, they post enough letters to meet well over Jesper's target and let his father know of this achievement. Jesper’s father arrives on Christmas Eve to congratulate his son, inadvertently revealing to Jesper's friends the selfish motives behind his deeds. Just before they leave town, Jesper's father notices his son's remorse, and after a private talk, he allows Jesper to stay. Jesper tries to stop the elders and their angry mob from destroying the Christmas toys but apparently fails. However, Alva had already been informed of the plot by the town's children, and had replaced the toys with decoys, aided by Klaus. During the chase for the toys, Mr. Ellingboe's daughter Magdalone and Mrs. Krum's son Olaf also fall in love.

At an earlier point, Jesper explains to Márgu that he doesn't want to "spend [his] life in Smeerensburg with an old man and surrounded by crazy people, wanting nothing more in life." Later, after spending time with Márgu, Alva, Klaus and the Saami villagers, we hear Jesper warmly monologue those same words. Fourth-Date Marriage: Pumpkin and Olaf get hitched very shortly after the events of the main story. In comparison, it takes Jesper and Alva several years to settle down and start a family, though they've had mutual feelings since their first year of knowing each other. People who met Barbie during his time in Bolivia have said that he was a firm and fanatical believer in the Nazi ideology and an anti-Semite. Barbie and De Castro reportedly talked about the cases and searches for Josef Mengele and Adolf Eichmann, whom Barbie supported and wanted to assist in remaining on the run. [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] Manhunt [ edit ] Barbie's Bolivian secret police ID card, named as "Klaus Altmann Nansen" Santa Clausmas: A Christmas movie acting as an origin story for Santa Claus that has nothing to do with Saint Nicholas of Myra.Another of Barbie’s most infamous crimes was the deportation of youngsters from a children’s home in Izieu in southern France. Their would-be rescuers, Sabine and Miron Zlatin, had hidden the children in a remote farm house in the Rhone Valley. The children ranged in age from 4 to 17. Their Jewish identities were a closely guarded secret, and in official records the young persons were identified only as refugees. On the morning of April 6, 1944, Barbie led a raid on the children’s colony, capturing 44 children and seven adult caretakers. Fearing that local authorities might intervene, Barbie arranged for their immediate transfer to Drancy transit camp. Miron Zlatin and two of the oldest youngsters were ultimately sent to Tallinn, Estonia, where they were shot to death. The rest of the children were deported to Auschwitz, where they were gassed immediately upon arrival. Postwar and Escape

Barbie emigrated to Bolivia in 1951, [23] where he lived well for 30 years in Cochabamba, under the alias Klaus Altmann. It was easier and less embarrassing for him to find employment there than in Europe; he enjoyed excellent relations with high-ranking Bolivian officials, including Bolivian dictators Hugo Banzer and Luis García Meza. "Altmann" was known for his German nationalist and anti-communist stances. [24] While engaged in arms-trade operations in Bolivia, he was appointed to the rank of lieutenant colonel within the Bolivian Armed Forces. [25] Secondary Character Title: The protagonist's name is Jesper; the title refers to the toymaker he teams up with. In a long list of unspeakable acts, Barbie’s operation in April 1944 against a group of children stands out. In the remote locale of Izieu, France, Barbie, never known for moral scruples or mercy, crossed a final threshold of criminality. Simmons also provides the uncredited voice of the Drill Sarge, the assistant head of the Johansen family's postal department who works under the Royal Postmaster General. End of an Age: The Krum-Ellingboe feud being replaced with the tradition of Klaus delivering presents is essentially this for Mrs. Krum, Mr. Ellingboe and their remaining followers.Christophe de Roquefeuil: Barbie came in. Smiled. Sat down. As if he was a spectator at someone else’s trial. I remember the silence that washed over the huge hall where the trial was taking place, muting the hundreds of people gathered for the affair -- journalists, witnesses, lawyers, spectators. We had all been waiting for this moment for weeks with one question in mind: “What would happen when the 'butcher of Lyon' first appeared? Cries of anger? A disturbance? Would one of the witnesses, some of whom were quite elderly, faint?” Rump Roast: During the montage of Jesper delivering presents down the chimneys, the final one has a lit fireplace, resulting in him leaping out the window crying as his rear is on fire. As we near the anniversary of D-Day, the atrocities carried out by Gestapo official Nikolaus “Klaus” Barbie (1913-1991) in France prior to the Allied liberation of the country is the subject of this piece. Barbie, later named the “Butcher of Lyon,” tortured, murdered, and deported thousands of resistance fighters and Jews during his time in France.

In 19th-century Norway, [5] the Royal Postmaster General enrolls Jesper Johansen, his lazy, spoiled, self-centered son, into a postman training academy hoping that it will reform him. Jesper deliberately underperforms, forcing his father to finally send him to the distant, northern island town of Smeerensburg with the task of posting 6,000 letters within a year. If Jesper fails, he will be cut off from the family's fortune.Liar Revealed: When Klaus and Alva learn that Jesper only set up the toy delivery system to meet his six thousand letter quota so his father would let him return home, they are understandably furious with him. He only redeems himself in their eyes when he chooses to stay and tries to stop the Krums and Ellingboes from destroying their Christmas morning toy shipment. Pumpkin Ellingboe, Mr. Ellingboe's pampered and imposing daughter whose only word is "mine", except when she says "Right" when Mr. Aksel Ellingboe plots to have Jesper and Klaus eliminated.