March 25, 2005
Secrets of Ex-Nazis Chilean Fiefdom
Paul Schaefer was a medic in Hitler's army during World War II. After the war, he set up an evangelical ministry and a youth home, purportedly to care for war orphans.
But he was charged with sexually abusing two boys - and in 1961 he fled to Chile, reportedly accompanied by some 70 followers.
There, in a lush valley in the Andean foothills, he set up Colonia Dignidad - now renamed Villa Baviera.
...Mr Schaefer's story is not confined to the perimeter fence of the colony - topped with barbed wire, studded with searchlights, and overlooked by a watchtower.
It goes right to the heart of the Chilean state during the iron rule of Gen Augusto Pinochet in the 1970s and 1980s - a period with which Chileans are still struggling to come to terms today.
Former political prisoners of Gen Pinochet have testified to a warren of stone-walled tunnels under the colony, where they were taken to be tortured with electric shocks to the strains of Wagner and Mozart.
The Truth and Justice Commission, which investigated human rights abuses during Gen Pinochet's rule, backs such allegations.
Dissidents say they were tortured in bunkers at Colonia Dignidad
~This will make a great movie.
Moreover it's convinced me that domestic arrangements of men, women and children in which political favors are cultivated and where communication with the outside world is controlled lead to child abuse. Nazis have their distinctive forms of child abuse, while Christians awaiting the Rapture and UFO cultists have their's.
Only Nazis and terrorists utilize bunkers?
Posted by Cieciel at March 25, 2005 12:25 AM