Colonia Dignidad

…I mean, child exploitation, forced labor, collaboration with Chilean military dictatorship. I mean, the worst stuff imaginable. And the story of Colonial Dignidad is an example of how a charismatic leader, an authoritarian ideology, and a state complicit with abuse enabled decades of suffering behind closed doors.…

…This is a secretive German enclave established in rural Chile in 1961 by a gentleman named Paul Schaefer, who fled Germany following allegations of child abuse. Presented to the outside world as charitable, religious community, Colonia Dignidad concealed a reality of the worst human rights abuses you can imagine.…

…Colonia Dignidad. We know that Nazis had fled post-World War II and many of them went to South America, but did you know there was a rural Chilean cult that harbored many of these Nazis and engaged in many nefarious acts? And today we're gonna be breaking it all down. If you've never heard of Colonia Dignidad,…