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Do not fill this in! {{short description|Secretive colony founded by Germans in Chile, formerly torture center}} {{use dmy dates|date=March 2021}} {{more citations needed|date=April 2020}} {{Infobox concentration camp | type = Sect's operation space, with overlapping use as concentration and torture camp by [[Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional|DINA]] | name = Colonia Dignidad | image = Villa Baviera.jpg | image size = | caption = Hotel Villa Baviera in February 2014 | alt = | location map = Chile | map alt = | map caption = Location of Colonia Dignidad (now ''Villa Baviera'') in Chile | coordinates = {{coord|36|23|13|S|71|35|17|W|type:landmark|display=inline,title}} | other names = Villa Baviera | known for = [[Human rights violations in Pinochet's Chile|Internment and murder of dissidents]] during [[regime of General Augusto Pinochet|Pinochet's military dictatorship]] | location = 35 km east of [[Parral, Chile|Parral]] | built by = [[Paul Schäfer]]'s sect | operated by = Paul Schäfer | commandant = Paul Schäfer | original use = | construction = 1961 | in operation = 1961–2007 (as sect's operation place)<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.giornalettismo.com/archives/102268/villa-baviera-colonia-dignidad/ |title=Villa Baviera, da colonia nazista a villaggio per turisti |first=Donato |last=de Sena |work=Giornalettismo |language=it |date=2010-12-08 |access-date=2019-07-30}}</ref> <br/> 1973–1985 (as concentration camp of Pinochet's dissidents) | gas chambers = | prisoner type = | inmates = | killed = unknown | liberated by = | notable inmates = [[Boris Weisfeiler]] (alleged) | notable books = Das Blendwerk: Von der "Colonia Dignidad" zur "Villa Baviera" | website = }} <onlyinclude> '''Colonia Dignidad''' ("Dignity Colony") was an isolated colony established in post-[[World War II]] Chile by [[German Chileans|emigrant Germans]] which became notorious for the [[Human rights violations in Pinochet's Chile|internment, torture, and murder of dissidents]] during the [[Military dictatorship of Chile (1973-1990)|military dictatorship]] of General [[Augusto Pinochet]] in the 1970s while under the leadership of German emigrant preacher [[Paul Schäfer]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-chile-sect/insight-german-sect-victims-seek-escape-from-chilean-nightmare-past-idUSBRE8480MN20120509|title=Insight: German sect victims seek escape from Chilean nightmare past|author=Brown, Stephen|date=May 7, 2012|publisher=[[Reuters]]}}</ref> Colonia Dignidad has been described as a "state within a state".<ref>{{Cite news| last = Rotella| first = Sebatian| title = Siege may force colony to yield its secrets| work = Los Angeles Times| accessdate = 2022-07-24| date = 1997-06-25| url = https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-06-25-mn-6655-story.html}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book| publisher = Springer International Publishing| isbn = 9783030975418 |doi = 10.1007/978-3-030-97542-5_16| pages = 223–236| editor1= Elizabeth Lira| editor2= Marcela Cornejo |editor3= Germán Morales| last = Hevia Jordán| first = Evelyn| title = Human Rights Violations in Latin America | chapter = Colonia Dignidad: Lights and Shadows in the Recognition of the Victims| series = Peace Psychology Book Series | location = Cham| accessdate = 2022-07-24| date = 2022| chapter-url = https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-030-97542-5_16}}</ref> </onlyinclude> Schäfer and members of the colony were deeply religious and followed the teachings of [[William Branham]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-chile-sect/insight-german-sect-victims-seek-escape-from-chilean-nightmare-past-idUSBRE8480MN20120509|title=Insight: German sect victims seek escape from Chilean nightmare past|author=Brown, Stephen|date=May 7, 2012|publisher=[[Reuters]]}}</ref> The main legal economic activity of the colony was [[agriculture]]; at various periods it also was home to a school, a hospital, two [[airstrip]]s, a restaurant, and a [[power station]].[[File:Fosas en Colonia Dignidad 01.JPG|thumb|Protesters asking for justice in 2015]] Colonia Dignidad's longest continuous leader, [[Paul Schäfer]], arrived in the colony in 1961.<ref name=":1">Infield, Glenn, ''Secrets of the SS'', 1981, p. 206.</ref> Schäfer was a fugitive, accused of child molestation in [[West Germany]]. The organization he led in Chile was described, alternatively, as a [[cult]] or as a group of "harmless eccentrics". The organization was secretive, and the Colonia was surrounded by [[barbed wire]] fences, featured a [[watchtower]] and [[searchlight]]s, and was later reported to contain secret weapon caches. External investigations, including efforts by the [[Chilean government]], uncovered a history of criminal activity in the enclave, including [[child sexual abuse]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/aljazeeracorrespondent/2013/11/colony-chile-dark-past-uncovered-2013114105429774517.html |title=The Colony: Chile's dark past uncovered |author=Staff writer |work=[[Al Jazeera English|Al Jazeera]] |date=2013-12-15 |access-date=2014-01-24 |archive-date=24 February 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160224220644/http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/aljazeeracorrespondent/2013/11/colony-chile-dark-past-uncovered-2013114105429774517.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> Reports from Chile's [[National Commission for Truth and Reconciliation]], indicate that a small set of the many individuals abducted by [[Pinochet]]'s [[Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional]] during his rule were held as prisoners at Colonia Dignidad, most of whom were subjected to torture, and often to [[extrajudicial execution]] as well. Several members of Colonia's leadership of the time, including Schäfer, were participants in the atrocities. In 1991, the name of the settlement was changed to '''Villa Baviera'''. After Schäfer fled to [[Argentina]] in 1996 to escape child molestation charges in Chile, control over residents loosened. Residents of the colony are now free to leave, and the site is open for tourism.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-02-27/villa-baviera-chiles-torture-colony-tourist-trap |title=Villa Baviera: Chile's Torture Colony Tourist Trap |first=Monte |last=Reel |work=[[Bloomberg News]] |date=2013-02-27 |access-date=2016-09-05}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/02/chile-disappeared-excavations-colonia-dignidad |title=Excavations at Chile torture site offer new hope for relatives of disappeared |first=Marella |last=Oppenheim |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=2018-05-02 |access-date=2019-07-30}}</ref> ==Location == Located in a remote area in the [[Maule Region]] of central [[Chile]], Colonia Dignidad was located in the [[Communes of Chile|commune]] of [[Parral, Chile|Parral]], in a rural area on the north bank of the [[Perquilauquén River]], about 35 km southeast of the town of Parral. The full name of the colony from the 1950s was '''Sociedad Benefactora y Educacional Dignidad''' ("Charitable and Educational Society 'Dignity'{{thin space}}"). At its largest, Colonia Dignidad was home to some three hundred German and Chilean residents, and covered {{convert|137|km2|sqmi|sp=us}}.<ref name=Fiefdom>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4340591.stm |title=Secrets of ex-Nazi's Chilean fiefdom |first=Becky |last= Branford |work=[[BBC News]] |date=2005-03-11 |access-date=2016-04-21}}</ref> ==History== The first inhabitants of Colonia Dignidad arrived in 1961, brought by German citizen [[Paul Schäfer]]. Born in 1921 in the town of [[Troisdorf]], Schäfer's first employment in Germany was as a welfare worker for children in an institution of the local church. He was fired from that post at the end of the 1940s and faced accusations of sexual abuse against children in his care.<ref name=NaziCult>{{Cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2016/07/01/what-happened-in-colonia-inside-the-terrifying-nazi-cult-that-in/ |title=What happened in Colonia? Inside the terrifying Nazi cult that inspired Emma Watson's new film |last=Hannaford |first=Alex |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=2016-07-03 |access-date=2019-05-28}}</ref> While these first reports led to his dismissal, no criminal proceedings were initiated. Schäfer had been following the ministry of [[William Branham]] from Germany, and was very excited when Branham made a personal visit to Germany in 1955. Schäfer and other members of his church served as William Branham's personal security detail on his 1955 European tour.<ref>{{cite book|title=La Secta Perfecta|author=Basso, Carlos|date=4 October 2022 |isbn=9789566063650|publisher=PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE GRUPO EDITORIAL|language=Spanish|page=8}}</ref> One sermon during his visit to Karlsruhe, Germany, left a deep impression on Schäfer. Schäfer claimed to experience a healing in the meeting, and thereafter began to strongly teach some of Branham's key doctrines.<ref>{{cite book|title=La Secta Perfecta|author=Basso, Carlos|date=4 October 2022 |isbn=9789566063650|publisher=PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE GRUPO EDITORIAL|language=Spanish|page=11}}</ref> Following the 1955 meetings with Branham, Schäfer began to put more of William Branham's doctrines into practice in his group, and began to insist to his followers that they were the "only faithful ones" to William Branham's teachings.<ref>{{cite book|title=La Secta Perfecta|author=Basso, Carlos|date=4 October 2022 |isbn=9789566063650|publisher=PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE GRUPO EDITORIAL|language=Spanish|page=8}}</ref> Working as an independent preacher, Schäfer formed a community in Gronau dedicated to working with children at risk.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}} He quickly acquired great influence over his members, who had to perform hard farm work without pay. Shortly thereafter, stories reemerged relating to the earlier allegations of pedophilia against him.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}} As a result, in 1961, Schäfer organized the emigration of several hundred members of their community to Chile. "Strong ties were forged" between Schäfer, William Branham, and Ewald Frank during Branham's time in Germany.<ref>{{cite book|title=La Secta Perfecta|author=Basso, Carlos|date=4 October 2022 |isbn=9789566063650|publisher=PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE GRUPO EDITORIAL|language=Spanish|page=53}}</ref> Schäfer may have been influenced to move to Chile by Branham's doomsday prophesies that predicted the imminent destruction of western democracies. Schäfer continued to promote Branham's teaching throughout his life, and many escapees and the current members of Colonia are still affiliated with the teachings of Branham.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-chile-sect/insight-german-sect-victims-seek-escape-from-chilean-nightmare-past-idUSBRE8480MN20120509|title=Insight: German sect victims seek escape from Chilean nightmare past|author=Brown, Stephen|date=May 7, 2012|publisher=[[Reuters]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=67352|title=Colonia Dignidad and Jonestown|author=Collins, John|date=September 23, 2016|publisher=San Diego State University}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://ciperchile.cl/2009/09/03/ex-hombre-de-confianza-de-schafer-habla-por-primera-vez-pide-su-parte-tras-millonario-acuerdo-entre-villa-baviera-y-el-cde/|title=Schäfer's former henchman speaks for the first time: asks for his share after a millionaire agreement between Villa Baviera and the CDE|publisher=CIPER|date=March 9, 2009|author=Basualto, Rebecca}}</ref> Ewald Frank was a key figure in helping Colonia establish its weapons factories by contracting with German arms producers to assist the colony in setting up their operations. Frank also played a role in assisting in the sale and transport of the materials and supplies for the operations in Colonia. When investigations were launched into Colonia in later years, many members of the colony fled back to Germany where they found refuge with Frank.<ref>{{cite book|title=La Secta Perfecta|author=Basso, Carlos|date=4 October 2022 |isbn=9789566063650|publisher=PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE GRUPO EDITORIAL|language=Spanish|pages=57–59}}</ref> Schäfer maintained connections to Branham until the time of his death in a car accident in 1965.<ref>{{cite book|title=La Secta Perfecta|author=Basso, Carlos|date=4 October 2022 |isbn=9789566063650|publisher=PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE GRUPO EDITORIAL|language=Spanish|page=53}}</ref> === Allegations against the colony === {{unreferenced section|date=September 2019}} To the outside world, the colony portrayed itself as a prime example of German efficiency, cleanliness and communal work. The profitable agricultural production and an attached charity hospital helped preserve this image for a long time. The colony had its own press operations which recorded and broadcast videos showing their happy residents amid celebrations and commemorations: men dedicated to farm work, women and girls embroidering or preparing butter. Diplomats at the German embassy ignored reports of the violence and crime and praised it as a “model colony”.<ref name=":4" /> However, Schäfer's propaganda efforts were again and again overshadowed by allegations of people escaping from the colony and obtaining asylum in Germany. The earliest known example was Wolfgang Müller, who fled in 1966 and first exposed the atrocities that occurred within the colony. Müller obtained German citizenship and worked for a newspaper, soon becoming an activist in Germany against the leaders of ''Colonia Dignidad''. He <ref>{{Cite web |title=Google |url=https://www.google.com/ |access-date=2024-03-16 |website=www.google.com}}</ref>eventually became the president of a foundation dedicated to the support of Schäfer's victims in Chile. In 1967, Schäfer freed another inhabitant of the colony, Heinz Kuhn, who confirmed the allegations previously made by Müller, and provided more information on abuses. However, these first allegations were rejected by politicians and were emphatically denied due to their ties with the management of the Colony in their preparation of the [[military coup of September 11, 1973]], as demonstrated later in Chilean court cases. In 1988, Georg and Lotti Packmor escaped and testified in a parliamentary hearing in [[Bonn]], Germany, that German citizens were forced to live in the enclave against their will.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2012-05-09 |title=Insight: German sect victims seek escape from Chilean nightmare past |language=en |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-chile-sect-idUSBRE8480MN20120509 |access-date=2022-10-28}}</ref> === Secret detention camp === {{See also|Human rights violations in Pinochet's Chile}} Before officially moving his organization to Chile, Paul Schäfer requested that the Chilean government exempt him from paying taxes and grant him asylum as long as he helped with gaining political intelligence.<ref name=":3">{{Cite journal |last=Cassigoli |first=Rossana |date=May 2013 |title=Sobre la presencia nazi en Chile |url=http://www.revistas.unam.mx/index.php/ras/article/view/38779 |journal=Acta Sociológica |language=es |volume=61 |pages=157–177 |doi=10.1016/S0186-6028(13)70994-0|doi-access=free }}</ref> The [[Rettig Commission]] noted a wealth of information supporting the accusations of the use of the land owned by Colonia Dignidad for detention and [[torture]] of political detainees during [[Augusto Pinochet|Pinochet]]'s military dictatorship. Among these sources are spokesmen for the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany, and the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances. The Rettig Commission ultimately based its conclusions on evidence that it examined directly. In these underground prisons, the captives were tortured in numerous ways, including [[Attack dog|mutilation from dogs]] and [[Electric shock torture|electric shocks]]. Some torture victims allege that Schäfer was directly involved in their torture.<ref>''A Sinister Sect: Colonia Dignidad'' 2021</ref> There is speculation that the extent of Schäfer's involvement with Pinochet has not yet been fully disclosed.<ref name=Fiefdom/> Schäfer's 2005 arrest saw more than 500 government files of missing detainees hidden in the ‘bodega de las papas’ (‘potato cellar’ in English). Each of these files contained details of severe [[Human rights violations in Pinochet's Chile|human rights violations]] committed under Schäfer's supervision in collaboration with Pinochet. In the late 1970s, Pinochet allegedly ordered for the mass graves containing hundreds of murdered detainees to be unearthed and for the bodies to be either thrown into the sea or burned.<ref name=":3" /> === Claims of German Intelligence Service assistance === Journalist [[John Dinges]] has suggested<ref>{{cite book| isbn= 9781565847644 | pages = 129 | title = The Condor Years | publisher = The New Press | place = New York | date = 2004}}</ref> that there was some degree of cooperation between the [[German Intelligence Service]], German [[arms dealer]] [[Gerhard Mertins]], and Colonia Dignidad, including creation of bunkers, tunnels, a hospital, and runways for the decentralized production of armaments in modules (parts produced in one place, other parts in another). This subject was proactively hidden, because of the problems experienced at the time associated with [[Argentina]].{{citation needed|date=April 2020}} === Army Base === Because of Colonia Dignidad's close association with the Chilean military and strategic proximity to the [[Argentina–Chile border]], the Colonia served as a base for the Chilean military during the 1978 [[Beagle conflict]] between Chile and Argentina. The hospital at Colonia Dignidad also served as a laboratory for the manufacture of weaponized [[sarin]] as part of the Pinochet government's [[Project Andrea]].<ref>Colonia Dignidad: Eine deutsche Sekte in Chile (TV Mini Series). 2021</ref> === Democratic transition === Chile turned to democracy in 1990 after 17 years of dictatorship, but ''Colonia Dignidad'' remained unchanged. Allegations of abuses and humiliations that occurred inside the colony increased. National and international pressure intensified, but each time the police tried to conduct an investigation at the site they were greeted with a wall of silence. ''Colonia Dignidad'' authorities remained powerful and also had allies in the army and among the Chilean far right, who would warn them in advance when the police were preparing to visit the site.<ref name=":6">{{Cite web |last=Mostrador |first=El |date=2014-06-12 |title=Colonia Dignidad: los políticos de derecha y amigos del enclave que Paul Schäfer mandó a fichar |url=https://www.elmostrador.cl/noticias/pais/2014/06/12/colonia-dignidad-los-politicos-de-derecha-y-amigos-del-enclave-que-paul-schafer-mando-a-fichar/ |access-date=2023-03-04 |website=El Mostrador |language=es}}</ref> Slowly, Chilean public awareness began to change, creating a growing feeling of resentment towards the place, which many began to perceive as an [[independent state]], or an [[enclave]] within Chile.<ref name=":6" /> == Life under Schäfer leadership== Before coming to Chile, Schäfer had attempted to start an orphanage in Germany, but two mothers living there accused him of molesting their children, so to escape judicial consequences, he fled to Chile.<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |url=https://theamericanscholar.org/the-torture-colony/ |title=The Torture Colony |first=Bruce |last=Falconer |work=[[The American Scholar (magazine)|The American Scholar]] |date=2008-09-01 |access-date=2019-05-10}}</ref> Schäfer arrived in Chile in 1961 with around 70 followers, and a number of kidnapped children. The colony continued to ‘import’ children from Germany and the surrounding areas until the end of Schäfer's leadership. Colonia Dignidad grew to have about 350 people, around 100 of whom were children.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |title=Unholy Alliance: A History of Nazi Involvement in the Occult |last=Levenda |first=Peter |publisher=[[Bloomsbury Publishing|Bloomsbury Academic]] |year=2002 |isbn=0826414095 |location=London |url=https://archive.org/details/unholyalliancehi00leve }}</ref> Those on the side of the colony said that it was a harmless organization, but, those against it recounted it as [[Tyrant|tyrannical]] in structure, and highly restrictive in terms of interaction between genders and in expression of sexuality, with a reportedly [[Population ageing|aging population]]. The perimeter of the colony was made up of barbed wire, searchlights, and a watchtower.<ref name=Fiefdom/> Today the colony is not as isolated as it was under Schäfer's leadership; Schäfer made great efforts to keep the colony as isolated as he could. The road to the colony cut through farmland and forest, and brought the traveler to a large barbed-wire fence that was generally heavily protected. Inside, however, the colony seemed fairly normal, though a bit old-fashioned:<blockquote>The village had modern apartment complexes, two schools, a chapel, several meetinghouses, and a bakery that produced fresh cakes, breads, and cheeses. There were numerous animal stables, two landing strips, at least one airplane, a hydroelectric power station, and mills and factories of various kinds, including a highly profitable gravel mill that supplied raw materials for numerous road-building projects throughout Chile. On the north side of the village was a hospital, where the Germans provided free care to thousands of patients in one of the country’s poorest areas.<ref name=":4"/></blockquote>Schäfer, despite living in Chile for most of his adult life, spoke little Spanish, as only German was spoken inside the colony. He was described as having a very serious demeanor, and rarely smiled, but was considered to be quite charismatic nonetheless. He made great efforts to illustrate Colonia Dignidad as a utopian paradise, seemingly frozen in a time before World War II.<ref name=":4" /> In reality, Schäfer ran a fear-based colony where members were barred from interacting with the world outside the community, and a few were armed to protect the community against possible outside attacks.<ref name=":3" /> The inhabitants lived under an abnormal [[authoritarian]] system, where in addition to minimal contact with the outside, Schäfer ordered the division of families (parents did not talk to their children, or did not know their siblings). It prohibited all kinds of relations, sentimental or [[Marriage|conjugal]], among adult women and men, and segregated the living quarters of each sex. Schäfer sexually abused children and some were tortured, as is clear from the statements of the German Dr. [[Gisela Seewald]], who admitted the use of [[electroshock therapy]] and [[sedatives]] that her boss had claimed were [[placebos]]. Members were often encouraged to confess to him both their own sins, and the sins of others that they had witnessed. Supposed sinners were often publicly outed and shamed during gathering times and meals. Women were thought to be inherently sinful, plagued by sexuality, thus the justification behind separating the men from the women. Schäfer often dictated forming romantic relationships, as far as saying when to get married and have children. Most of the time, however, conceptions of the family inside the colony were based not on genetics, but on loyalty to Schäfer, who self-identified as ‘The Permanent Uncle.’ When a child was born, it would not stay with its biological parents, but rather be raised by nurses in a group called ‘The Babies.’ Each stage of life was categorized like this, with the following stages being ‘The Wedges’ (up to age 15), ‘The Army of Salvation,’ ‘The Elder Servants’ by age 30, and lastly, by age 50, ‘The Comalos.’ This was done in an effort to give everyone an exact role in the colony's order. Inhabitants lived in groups of about six, and all wore similar German 30s-style clothing. Each person would work 12+ hours a day, receiving no payment, but doing so rather for the sake of Colonia Dignidad.<ref name=":4" /> The colony had a school and hospital in the enclave which offered support to rural families through free education and health services. This would, ultimately, create support in case the colony was attacked. However, there are many cases uncovered in recent years that refer to [[Adoption fraud|illegal adoptions]] of children from families residing in the surrounding areas by the German [[hierarchy]] in order to deliver on the promise of free education. Locals around the colony generally knew Colonia Dignidad to be made up of hygienic, hard-working individuals who led a very structured life.<ref name=":4" /> ==Atrocities== ===Sexual abuse=== In 1996, Schäfer fled child sex abuse charges in Chile,<ref name=NaziCult/> escaping arrest until 2005.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4338825.stm |title=Fugitive Chile cult leader held |first=Clinton |last=Porteous |work=[[BBC News]] |date=2005-03-11 |access-date=2012-02-04}}</ref> The previous year, in his absence, a Chilean court had convicted him of child abuse, together with 26 other cult members.<ref name=27Convicted>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/mar/12/warcrimes.chile |work=[[The Guardian]] |title=Fugitive Nazi cult leader arrested |date=2005-03-12 |access-date=2008-04-02 |first=Luke |last=Harding}}</ref> In 2006, he was sentenced to 20 years in prison.<ref name=PaulSentence>{{cite news |url=http://www.dw.com/en/german-cult-leader-in-chile-gets-20-year-sentence/a-2031481 |title=German Cult Leader in Chile Gets 20-Year Sentence |last=Conway |first=Jane |work=[[Deutsche Welle]] |date=2006-05-25 |access-date=2016-09-07}}</ref> He died in prison of a heart ailment, on 24 April 2010, at the age of 88. At the time of his death, he was still under investigation for the 1985 disappearance of mathematician [[Boris Weisfeiler]], an American citizen who went missing while hiking near Colonia Dignidad.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/25/AR2010042503221.html |title=Paul Schaefer, 89, ex-Nazi preacher jailed for abuse, dies |first=Emma |last=Brown |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=2010-04-25 |access-date=2016-09-07}}</ref> ===Torture and murder=== [[File:Familiares de detenidos desaparecidos en Chile.jpg|thumb|Families of disappeared people]] [[File:Fosa en Colonia Dignidad detenidos desaparecidos.jpg|thumb|The grave where the bodies of murdered detainees were buried and later exhumed from]] During the military dictatorship of [[Augusto Pinochet]], from 1973 to 1990, Colonia Dignidad served as a special [[torture]] center. In 1991, Chile's [[National Commission for Truth and Reconciliation]] concluded that a number of people apprehended by the [[Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional|DINA]] were held at Colonia Dignidad, and that some of the colony's residents actively helped the DINA torture some of the captives.<ref name=":4"/> Colonia Dignidad's involvement came to light as early as an October 1976 report from the [[United Nations]] Ad Hoc Working Group on Chile, as referenced in a March 1977 [[Amnesty International]] report, "Disappeared Prisoners in Chile", with the latter report describing the evidence in this way: {{quote| Another DINA detention center described in the [U.N.] document, in which it is alleged that experiments in torture are carried out, is Colonia Dignidad, near the town of Parral…<ref name = Amnesty77>{{cite web |author=Amnesty Staff |date=1977-03-01 |title=Disappeared Prisoners in Chile |publisher=[[Amnesty International|Amnesty International Publications]] |ref=AMR 22/034/1977 |url=https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/amr22/034/1977/en/ |access-date=2016-04-21 |quote = Another DINA detention center described in the same document, ... }}</ref>}} Prisoners being tortured in the tunnels under Colonia Dignidad were each interrogated to gain an understanding of their personality in order to gauge the appropriate torture technique. These techniques led to a number of afflictions lasting indeterminate periods of time.<ref name=":2" /> As many as 100 of the citizens taken to Colonia Dignidad by the DINA were murdered at the colony.<ref name=Hopp/> There are more than 1,100 desaparecidos (disappeared people) in Chile, some taken to the Colony where they were tortured and killed.{{Citation needed|date=November 2019}} One of them is a U.S. citizen, [[Boris Weisfeiler]], a Soviet-born mathematics professor at [[Pennsylvania State University]]. Weisfeiler, then 43 years old, vanished while on a hiking trip near the border between Chile and Argentina in the early part of January 1985. It is presumed that Weisfeiler had been kidnapped and taken to the Colony where he was tortured and killed.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://weisfeiler.com/boris/ |title=Professor Boris Weisfeiler Has Been Missing in Chile since 1985 |first1=Olga |last1=Weisfeiler |first2=Lev |last2=Weisfeiler |website=weisfeiler.com |access-date=2016-04-21}}</ref> In 2012, a judge in Chile ordered the arrest of eight former police and army officials over the kidnapping of Weisfeiler during the [[Pinochet]] years, citing evidence from declassified US files.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-19340756 |title=Judge in Chile orders arrests over missing US hiker |author=Staff writers |work=[[BBC News]] |date=2012-08-22 |access-date=21 April 2016}}</ref> In 2016, the case was closed and the men were freed when a judge ruled that Weisfeiler had indeed been abducted, but that it was only a common crime, long past the [[statute of limitations]], instead of a human rights violation.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-35980852 |title=Missing in Chile: What happened to Boris Weisfeiler? |first=Gideon |last=Long |work=[[BBC News]] |date= 2016-04-10 |access-date=2019-07-31}}</ref> ===Member abuse=== Some defectors from the colony have portrayed it as a cult in which the leader Paul Schäfer held the ultimate power. They claim that the residents were never allowed to leave the colony, and that they were strictly segregated by gender. Television, telephones and calendars were banned. Residents worked wearing [[Bavaria]]n peasant garb and sang German folk songs. Sex was banned, with some residents forced to take drugs to reduce their desires. Drugs were also administered as a form of sedation, mostly to young girls, but to males as well. Severe discipline in the forms of beatings and torture was commonplace: Schäfer insisted that discipline was spiritually enriching.{{Citation needed|date=April 2008}} One of the first instances of abuse allegations was in 1966 from escapee Wolfgang Müller, who had been sixteen when he came to the colony. He claimed that he was forced into slave labor, received regular harsh beatings, and was molested by Schäfer on multiple occasions. Müller said that former Nazis were part of the colony as well.<ref name=":2" /> ===Weapons violations=== In June and July 2005, Chilean police found two large illegal [[weapon|arms]] caches in or around the colony. The first, within the colony itself, included three containers with [[machine gun]]s, [[automatic rifle]]s, [[Shoulder-launched missile weapon|rocket launcher]]s, and large quantities of [[ammunition]], some as many as forty years old but with evidence of recent maintenance.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.war2hobby.cl/noticias.php/id/53 |title=Arsenal encontrado en Colonia Dignidad |website=War2Hobby.cl |date=2005-06-16 |language=es |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090912121408/http://www.war2hobby.cl/noticias.php/id/53 |archive-date=2009-09-12 |access-date=2019-07-31}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.cooperativa.cl/policia-civil-encontro-dos-depositos-de-armas-en-ex-colonia-dignidad/prontus_nots/2005-06-14/232434.html |title=Policía civil encontró dos depósitos de armas en ex Colonia Dignidad |author=Staff writers |work=[[Radio Cooperativa]] |language=es |date=2005-06-14 |access-date=2012-02-04}}</ref> This cache was described as the largest arsenal ever found in private hands in Chile. The second cache, outside a restaurant operated by the colony, included rocket launchers and [[grenade]]s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10331060|title=Chile discovers weapons cache on cult grounds|date=16 June 2005|work=The New Zealand Herald|access-date=21 April 2016}}</ref> In January 2005, former Chilean secret police operative [[Michael Townley]], then living in the United States under a witness-protection program, acknowledged to agents of [[Interpol]] Chile links between [[Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional|DINA]] and Colonia Dignidad. Townley also revealed information about Colonia Dignidad and the army's Laboratory on Bacteriological Warfare. This last laboratory would have replaced the old DINA laboratory at Vía Naranja de Lo Curro hill, where Townley worked with the chemist [[Eugenio Berríos]]. Townley also gave proof of biological experiments, related to the two aforementioned laboratories, on political prisoners at Colonia Dignidad.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.cooperativa.cl/p4_noticias/site/artic/20050330/pags/20050330114755.html |title=Michael Townley fue interrogado por muerte de Frei Montalva |author=Staff writers |work=[[Radio Cooperativa]] |language=es |date=2005-03-30 |access-date=2016-04-21 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120729162016/http://www.cooperativa.cl/p4_noticias/site/artic/20050330/pags/20050330114755.html |archive-date=2012-07-29}}</ref> ===Nazi ties=== {{Disputed section|date=July 2022}} The [[Central Intelligence Agency]] and [[Simon Wiesenthal]] claim that [[Josef Mengele]], the infamous Nazi [[concentration camp]] doctor, known as the "Angel of Death" for his lethal [[Nazi human experimentation|experiments on human subjects]] was present at the colony.<ref>Infield, ''Secrets'', p. 207.</ref> The colony itself rejected the accusation when Wiesenthal published it in 1997 in the Chilean press. The German government states that to this date, there is "no evidence to support or invalidate Wiesenthal's claim or the more general allegation that the Colonia Dignidad or its legal successors was a place of refuge for Nazi criminals.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Der Bundestag |title=Drucksache 14/7867 |url=https://dserver.bundestag.de/btd/14/078/1407867.pdf |publication-date=2001-12-13}}</ref> The Nazi underground in South America was established some time before [[World War II]]. [[Juan Perón]] provided shelter to some escaped Nazi criminals. [[Nazi sympathiser|Nazi sympathy]] in South America decreased until [[Augusto Pinochet|Pinochet]] took power.<ref name=":2" /> It was suggested that part of the intense [[racism]], [[Antisemitism|anti-Semitism]], and [[Class discrimination|classism]] in Chile can be attributed to Nazi presence.{{cn|date=November 2021}} The high concentration of Germans in Chile shaped the country's overall attitude towards subjects like education and military. A few of the Germans who immigrated to Chile in the 1960s were former Nazis led by Paul Schäfer.<ref name=":3" /> Colonia Dignidad was a “Nazi stronghold protected by the Chilean government[...].”<ref name=":1" /> Former members of the [[Schutzstaffel|SS]] and [[Gestapo]] had the job of demonstrating Nazi torture methods to the secret police of Chile. Many of Schäfer's followers who had Nazi pasts joined him to escape post-World War II [[war crime]] investigations.<ref name=":1" /> The presence of Colonia Dignidad had an effect on the general political opinion of the surrounding areas, and the government as well because of this, considering the political ties between Colonia Dignidad and the Chilean government.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Valades |first1=Adriana |last2=Garza Elizondo |first2=Humberto |date=Summer 1992 |title=Las Relaciones Políticas y Culturales Entre Alemania y América Latina |journal=Foro Internacional |volume=32 |issue=4 |pages=455–466 |via=JSTOR}}</ref> ==Legal proceedings== In 2004, a Chilean court convicted Schäfer and 26 other cult members of child abuse.<ref name=27Convicted/> In 2006, Schäfer was sentenced to 20 years in prison.<ref name=PaulSentence/> In early 2011, [[Hartmut Hopp]], considered to be Schäfer's "right-hand-man" at Colonia Dignidad, was placed under house arrest in Chile while awaiting trial for human rights crimes.<ref name=Hopp>{{cite news |url=http://santiagotimes.cl/colonia-dignidad-cults-second-in-command-flees-chile/ |title=Human Rights & Law News: "Colonia Dignidad Cult's Second-In-Command Flees Chile" |first=Amanda |last=Reynoso-Palley |newspaper=[[The Santiago Times]] |date=2011-05-25 |access-date=2015-02-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402154908/http://santiagotimes.cl/colonia-dignidad-cults-second-in-command-flees-chile/ |archive-date=2015-04-02 |url-status=dead}}</ref> In May 2011, Hopp fled Chile on board a helicopter, later making his way to Germany.<ref name=Hopp/> In June 2016, prosecutors in Germany petitioned a court to enforce a 5-year prison sentence that Hopp was sentenced to in absentia in Chile.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.rp-online.de/nrw/staedte/krefeld/hartmut-hopp-koennte-taeter-und-opfer-zugleich-sein-aid-1.6143922 |title=Sektenarzt aus Krefeld: Hopp könnte laut Regierung Täter und Opfer zugleich sein |last=Stirken |first=Norbert |work=[[Rheinische Post]] |language=de |date=2016-07-27 |access-date=2016-09-05}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-36474940 |title=German court asked to jail Chile sect doctor Hartmut Hopp |author=Staff writers |work=[[BBC News]] |date=2016-06-08 |access-date=2016-09-05}}</ref> In May 2019, German prosecutors announced that they had dropped their investigation into Hopp and Reinhard Döring. In January 2020, a lawyer for the victims, Petra Schlagenhauf, lodged a complaint seeking to have the investigation reopened.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-48199495 |title=Colonia Dignidad: Germany drops probe into sect doctor |author=Staff writers |work=[[BBC News]] |date=2019-05-08 |access-date=2020-09-05}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://taz.de/Anwaeltin-ueber-die-Colonia-Dignidad/!5655242|title=Zeugen wurden nicht gehört |author=Ute Löhning|language=de |work=[[Die Tageszeitung]] |date=2020-01-14 |access-date=2020-09-05}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.ecchr.eu/en/case/colonia-dignidad-remains-a-dark-chapter-of-german-legal-history|title=Colonia Dignidad Remains a Dark Chapter of German Legal History |author=<!--Not stated-->| website=European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights|access-date=2020-09-05}}</ref> Hopp and other alleged accomplices in Schäfer's crimes who were charged and awaiting trial took refuge in Ewald Frank's church in Germany, where they were protected from extradition. Frank is a leader of William Branham's followers in Germany. German protestors picketed in front of Frank's church to protest his actions. The government of Chile banned Ewald Frank from entering the country after finding he had been visiting and holding revival meetings with Schäfer's followers at Colonia. Schäfer's followers speculated to news reporters that Frank and Schäfer had known each other since the 1950s when they were both at Branham's European campaign meetings together.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.dw.com/es/krefeld-y-su-conexi%C3%B3n-con-colonia-dignidad/a-46058041|title=Krefeld and its connection to Colonia Dignidad|publisher=DW News|author=Dannemann, Victoria|date=October 26, 2018|accessdate=2021-08-30}}</ref><ref name="Reuters —German sect victims seek escape from Chilean nightmare past">{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-chile-sect-idUSBRE8480MN20120509|title=Insight: German sect victims seek escape from Chilean nightmare past|date=9 May 2012|publisher=[[Reuters]]|access-date=2 March 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://ciperchile.cl/2009/09/03/ex-hombre-de-confianza-de-schafer-habla-por-primera-vez-pide-su-parte-tras-millonario-acuerdo-entre-villa-baviera-y-el-cde/|title=Schäfer's former henchman speaks for the first time: asks for his share after a millionaire agreement between Villa Baviera and the CDE|publisher=CIPER|date=March 9, 2009|author=Basualto, Rebecca}}</ref> At the time that Hopp fled Chile, 10 other cult members were out on bail awaiting trial on various charges. Fearing that they would also flee the country, their bail was immediately revoked and they were taken into custody.<ref name=Hopp/> In 2010, Chilean authorities opened an investigation into the events occurring in the colony during the 1990s, resulting 19 months later in the Supreme Court issuing a unanimous ruling to prosecute 16 Chilean and German members of the colony.<ref name=Lawsuit>{{cite news |title=Chile Abroad: Colonia Dignidad victims file US $120 million lawsuit against Chile |first=Laina |last=Roberts |newspaper=[[The Santiago Times]] |date=2013-01-29 |access-date=2015-02-28 |url=http://santiagotimes.cl/colonia-dignidad-victims-file-us120-million-lawsuit-against-chile/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402100848/http://santiagotimes.cl/colonia-dignidad-victims-file-us120-million-lawsuit-against-chile/ |archive-date=2015-04-02 |url-status=dead}}</ref> On 28 January 2013, six former leaders of the colony were sentenced to prison, while the remaining 10 were found guilty of lesser crimes and given probationary sentences.<ref name=Lawsuit/> In March 2017, the German [[Bundestag]] officially acknowledged the responsibility of Germany and the failure of the German foreign policy regarding the Colonia Dignidad and members of all the parties in the German parliament passed a resolution giving the government a year to come up with plans to investigate the history of the colony, establish a [[memorial]], and offer assistance to victims and family members.<ref name=":5">{{Cite web |title=Colonia Dignidad survivors demand German action – DW – 06/13/2018 |url=https://www.dw.com/en/relatives-of-colonia-dignidad-victims-await-germanys-plan/a-44208686 |access-date=2022-10-28 |website=dw.com |language=en}}</ref> ==Villa Baviera era== [[File:Escuela Villa Baviera.jpg|thumb|School]] [[File:Laguna Villa Baviera.jpg|thumb|Laguna]] [[File:Hotel Villa Baviera.jpg|thumb|Hotel]] [[File:Restorán Villa Baviera.jpg|thumb|Restaurant]] In 1991, the name of the settlement was changed to "Villa Baviera".<ref name="BBC-2019">{{Cite news|title=Colonia Dignidad: Germany to compensate Chile commune victims |date=18 May 2019 |newspaper=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-48318295 }}</ref> Residents of the colony are now allowed free ingress and egress, and some study at [[university]].<ref name=":0" /> As of 2019 Villa Baviera is operated as a [[tourism|tourist resort]],<ref name="BBC-2019" /> something that has been the subject of controversy from human rights activists.<ref>''[[Songs of Repression]]'' (documentary), 2020</ref><ref name=":5" /> When the transition of the colony first started, many of the former victims protested in front of the "Villa Baviera", attached photos of the murdered and disappeared on the fence and compared the use of the former torture site to “installing a McDonald’s in Auschwitz”. In October 2005, the [[Politics of Chile|Chilean government]] sent a team of coordinators to the colony whose task it was to make sure the inhabitants would be fully integrated into Chilean society. Their main advice was to modernize the estate, so the inhabitants could gain their livelihood within the premises. One of the ideas was to turn the facilities into a “wellness-farm with hot springs and organic yoghurt production”.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Zuber |first=Helene |date=2005-10-16 |title="Was soll aus uns werden?" |language=de |work=Der Spiegel |url=https://www.spiegel.de/politik/was-soll-aus-uns-werden-a-8cf2f576-0002-0001-0000-000042736525 |access-date=2022-10-28 |issn=2195-1349}}</ref> == See also == * [[Klaus Schnellenkamp]] * ''[[Colonia (film)|Colonia]]'', a 2015 film set primarily in Colonia Dignidad. * ''[[Hunting Hitler]]'', season 2 episode 8 "Nazi Colony". * ''[[The Tunnel (TV series)|The Tunnel]]'', whose second season involves past Colonia Dignidad crimes. * ''[[Dignity (TV series)|Dignity]]'', Chilean-German thriller television series about the investigation against [[Paul Schäfer]]. * ''[[The Wolf House]]'', Chilean animated film about a young woman who escaped from Colonia Dignidad. * [[Cândido Godói]], similar expatriate German settlement in Brazil with reputed ties to [[Josef Mengele]] ==References== {{reflist}} ===Bibliography=== * {{cite book | author = Infield, Glenn | year = 1981 | title = Secrets of the SS | url = https://archive.org/details/transactionsand04unkngoog | location = New York, NY | publisher = Stein and Day | isbn = 0812827902 }} ==Further reading== The following citations are presented in inverse date order, newest published to oldest. They are offered for improvement of the article, and to allow readers further information on the subject. * Douglas, Marcela. "''Hopes and Horror. A German community in Chile''." UiT The Arctic University of Norway, 2014. {{ISBN|9788282441148}}. * {{cite news|url=http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/aljazeeracorrespondent/2013/10/tales-torture-2013103081121394171.html|title=Tales of torture: A former member of Chile's national intelligence agency describes some of the methods used against political prisoners|date=December 15, 2013|publisher=AlJazeera|access-date=January 24, 2014|archive-date=25 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160225050627/http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/aljazeeracorrespondent/2013/10/tales-torture-2013103081121394171.html|url-status=dead}}. The relevance of this article us uncertain. * Levenda, Peter (Kindle ed., 2012). ''Ratline: Soviet Spies, Nazi Priests, and the Disappearance of Adolf Hitler''. Ibis Press. ASIN B0081HDYQ6. * [[Klaus Schnellenkamp]]. ''Geboren im Schatten der Angst, Ich überlebte die Colonia Dignidad''. München: Herbig Verlagsbuchhandlung, 2007, 238 S., {{ISBN|9783776625059}}. * Heller, Friedrich Paul. ''Lederhosen, Dutt und Giftgas: Die Hintergründe der Colonia Dignidad''. Stuttgart: Schmetterling Verlag, 2005. {{ISBN|3-89657-093-5}} * Vedder, Efrain & Lenz, Ingo. ''Weg vom Leben''. Berlin: Ullstein, 2005, {{ISBN|3550076134}}. * {{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4562918.stm|title=BBC NEWS - Americas - German held over 'Chile torture'|date=27 December 2005|work=bbc.co.uk|access-date=21 April 2016}} * {{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4189920.stm|title=BBC NEWS - Americas - Chile officials take over colony|date=27 August 2005|work=bbc.co.uk|access-date=21 April 2016}} * {{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4338825.stm|title=BBC NEWS - Americas - Fugitive Chile cult leader held|date=11 March 2005|work=bbc.co.uk|access-date=21 April 2016}} * Peter Kornbluth, ''The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability'', Boris Weisfeiler, pp. 7 e.a. New York: The New Press, 2003, {{ISBN|9781595589958}}. * Gero Gemballa: ''Colonia Dignidad. Ein Reporter auf den Spuren eines deutschen Skandals''. Frankfurt/New York: Campus-Verlag, 1998, 213 S., {{ISBN|3593359227}}. * Levenda, Peter (1995). ''Unholy Alliance: History of the Nazi Involvement With the Occult,'' 1st edn., Avon Books. {{ISBN|0380777223}}. See also 2nd ed., 2002, Continuum International Publishing Group. {{ISBN|0826414095}}. * Friedrich Paul Heller. ''Colonia Dignidad. Von der Psychosekte zum Folterlager''. Stuttgart: Schmetterling Verlag, 1993, {{ISBN|392636999X}}. * Gero Gemballa. ''Colonia Dignidad: ein deutsches Lager in Chile''. Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1988. 173 S., {{ISBN|3499124157}}. * [[John Dinges]] y [[Saul Landau]]. ''Asesinato en Washington'', Pantheon 1980, Planeta 1990 (sobre el caso Letelier). * Álvaro Rojas. 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