On this day, 42 years ago, on February 5, 1983 (December 23, 1982, the Nazi war criminal Babi, the "butcher of Lyon", was extradited. On February 5, 1983, the Nazi war criminal "Butcher of Lyon" Babi, the fugitive Nazi war criminal "Butcher of Lyon", was extradited by the French government. From 1942 to 1944, when Klaus Babi was commander of the Gestapo (German secret police) in Lyon, France, he killed many French patriotic soldiers and Jews and was known as the "Butcher of Lyon". After the Second World War, he was sentenced to death twice in absentia by a French military court. Babi absconded to Bolivia, obtained the nationality of the country where he was located, and was sheltered by the Bolivian military government. France repeatedly sought extradition without success. In October 1982, a new Bolivian government was established, and France was able to extradite Babi in 1983 and sentenced to life imprisonment for "crimes against humanity."