The International Red Cross issued travel documents after World War II to leading Nazi figures such as Klaus Barbie and Adolf Eichmann, Red Cross officials confirmed. The organization handed out some 70,000 travel permits to refugees fleeing Nazi Germany after the war, and some of them turned out to be war criminals, the officials said.
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