Revelation of Klaus Barbie's Location

Date: January 19, 1972 • Location: Paris, France

The French newspaper L'Aurore revealed that the former Nazi SS officer Klaus Barbie, the "Butcher of Lyon", had been found to be living in Peru.

L'Aurore was a French newspaper first sold on 11 September 1944 soon after the Liberation of Paris. Its name refers to a previously unrelated publication, L'Aurore (1897–1914). The publication of L'Aurore ended in 1985.