Michel Gauquelin (1928-1991) was a Frenchpsychologist and statistician who conducted serious statistical research into astrology, aimed at proving astrology to be a pseudoscience.
The results of his research, however, have provided one of the most deep and reliable scientific defenses of astrology as a science.
... Klaus Barbie tortured Moulin’s whereabouts out of him and Moulin was arrested (alongside others) in Caluire[?] in June 21. Moulin died after heavy torture in July 8 1943. ...