Paul Schäfer

{{short description|German criminal and founder of a sect and agricultural commune in Chile}}
{{about|the German sect leader|the German politician|Paul Schäfer (politician)|the inventor|Schafer automation system|the ice hockey player|Paul Schaefer (ice hockey)|the musician|Paul Shaffer}}
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{{family name hatnote|Schäfer|Schneider|lang=Spanish}}
{{Infobox person
| name               = Paul Schäfer
| birth_name         = Paul Schäfer Schneider
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| birth_date         = {{Birth date|1921|12|4|df=y}}
| birth_place        = [[Bonn]], [[Weimar Republic]]
| death_date         = {{Death date and age|2010|4|24|1921|12|4|df=y}}
| death_place        = [[Santiago]], Chile
| occupation         = [[Medic]], cult leader of [[Colonia Dignidad]]
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'''Paul Schäfer Schneider''' (4 December 1921 – 24 April 2010)<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.abc.es/20100424/internacional-iberoamerica/chile-201004241544.html|title=Muere en una prisión de Chile el nazi Paul Schaefer, fundador de Colonia Dignidad|date=24 April 2010|publisher=ABC.es|language=es|access-date=24 April 2010}}</ref> was a [[German-Chilean]] Christian minister, and the founder and leader of a [[sect]] and [[agricultural commune]] of 300 German immigrants called [[Colonia Dignidad]] (''Dignity Colony'') (later renamed Villa Baviera) located in [[Parral, Chile|Parral]] in [[Zona Sur|southern]] [[Chile]], about {{Convert|340|km|abbr=in}} south of [[Santiago]] from 1961 to 2005. Schäfer led his followers in the teachings of [[William Branham]]. 

Aside from [[human rights abuse]]s against members of Colonia Dignidad, including [[rape]]<ref name="The Washington Post">{{cite news |title=Chilean victims of ex-Nazi's cult of horrors may finally get some answers |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/07/14/chilean-victims-of-ex-nazis-cult-of-horrors-may-finally-get-some-answers/ |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=14 July 2007 |access-date=6 April 2022 }}</ref> and [[sexual abuse|sexual]] and [[physical abuse]] (including [[torture]]) of young children, Schäfer maintained a relationship with [[Military dictatorship of Chile (1973–1990)|Pinochet's military dictatorship]] (1973–1990) and was involved in [[weapons smuggling]] and the torture and [[extrajudicial killings]] of political dissidents. After the end of [[Augusto Pinochet|Pinochet]]'s government, increased public awareness of the activities of Colonia Dignidad following testimony by former victims led to the issuing of a warrant for Schäfer's arrest. Living underground for eight years, he spent the last five years of his life in prison in Chile.

== Early life and education==
Schäfer was born the town of [[Troisdorf]], near [[Bonn]], [[Weimar Republic|Germany]], to Anna (née Schneider) and Jakob Schäfer.<ref>{{Cite web |date=1991 |title=Schäfer Schneider, Paul |url=https://archivospublicos.uahurtado.cl/uploads/r/archivo-institucional-universidad-alberto-hurtado-130/f/7/2/f726407c85b60fb1a5bc3a46937c2c50a84a37d0692a2e9c234f8f48248a89ac/83-5-15.pdf |access-date=5 June 2022 |website=[[Universidad Alberto Hurtado]]}}</ref> He was described as a poor and clumsy student. Schäfer's family was Lutheran.<ref name="falc">{{Cite news |first=Bruce |last=Falconer |url=https://theamericanscholar.org/the-torture-colony/ |title=The Torture Colony |date=2008-09-01 |work=American Scholar |access-date=2020-04-02 |language=en-US}}</ref> In an accident with a fork, he lost his right eye.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Kaes |first=Wolfgang |authorlink=:de:Wolfgang Kaes |journal=[[:de:Ledifaden|Leidfaden]] |date=2018 |volume=7 |number=4 |issn=2192-1202 |title=Empathie fuer einen Moerder? |publisher=Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht |location=Göttingen |quote=The boy poked out his eye when he tried to untie a knot in his shoelace with a fork. His classmates, who had already been teasing him incessantly, from then on only called him 'glass-eye'.}} "''Der Knabe stößt sich eine Auge aus, als er einen Knoten im Schnürsenkel mit einer Gabel lösen will. Die Mitschüler, die ihn ohnehin unablässig hänseln, nennen ihn fortan nur noch »Glassauge«.''"</ref> He joined a German [[YMCA]]-„Eichenkreuz“-Group.<ref>Friedrich Paul Heller: ''Lederhosen, Dutt und Giftgas. Die Hintergründe der Colonia Dignidad'', Schmetterling Verlag Stuttgart 2006, S. 13.</ref>{{When|date=July 2022}}
During [[World War II]] he served by carrying stretchers of the wounded in a German field hospital in occupied France, later in life claiming that his glass eye was the result of a war wound.<ref name="falc"/>

==German sect==
Following World War II in 1945, Schäfer served as a young people's leader in the [[Evangelical Free Church]]. He was removed from his position there after rumors arose that he was molesting young boys.<ref name="falc"/> He then set out as an itinerant preacher and singer, traveling around Germany and preaching. During the 1950s, Schäfer became a follower and promoter of the teachings of American preacher, [[William M. Branham]], one of the founders of the post-World War II [[Healing Revival|healing revival]] who was also an influence on [[Jim Jones]].<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 name = "sdu">[http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=67352 Colonia Dignidad and Jonestown] by John Collins, Alternative Considerations of Jonestown & Peoples Temple, San Diego State University</ref> Schäfer had been following the ministry of 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> Branham advocated "a strict adherence to the Bible, a woman's duty to obey her husband and apocalyptic visions, such as [[Los Angeles]] sinking beneath the ocean."<ref name="Reuters&nbsp;—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> Branham held multiple revival campaigns across Europe and Germany during the early 1950s. Schäfer became a friend of Branham who promoted a return to "a more pristine time" of religious and racial purity.<ref>{{cite news|title=The Dark History of Colonia Dignidad|publisher=The Nation|author=Stavans, Ilan|date=March 24, 2022|url=https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/sinister-sect-colonia-dignidad/|accessdate=2022-06-09}}</ref> 
[[File:Rev._William_M._Branham_in_Kansas_City,_1947.jpg|thumb|right|During the 1950s, Paul Schäfer became a follower of the teachings of [[William Branham]] (pictured in 1947).|alt=William Branham, a middle aged man holding a bible]]

"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 "was completely fascinated" by Branham, "not only because of his supposed healings, but because behind the latter rain doctrine, the axis of what Branham preached, there was a totalitarian, misogynistic and apocalyptic message, perfect to brainwash all those who were willing to follow him."<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> William Branham's second sermon during his visit to Karlsruhe, Germany, left a deep impression on Schäfer. The sermon was about the [[Pool of Bethesda]], and in it Branham strongly taught that all illness and all sin are actually demons entrenched in the people's bodies. Schäfer claimed to experience a healing in the meeting, and thereafter began to preach very strongly that all sin and illness was the result of demonic possession.<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>

By 1952 Schäfer had gathered a number of followers and in 1953 set up a children's home and orphanage. Schäfer's early followers were predominantly made up of war widows and their children who were refugees from [[Soviet]] occupied [[East Prussia]]. In 1959, he created the Private Sociale Mission, purportedly a charitable organization. That same year, Schäfer was charged with sexually abusing two young boys. Schäfer was charged and a warrant issued for his arrest by local authorities in Germany. Schäfer fled the children's home in Siegburg, [[West Germany]] with some of his followers to the Middle East to relocate his congregation. He came into contact with the Chilean ambassador to Germany, who invited him to Chile.<ref name="falc"/>

==Colonia Dignidad==
In January 1961 Schäfer surfaced in Chile, where the government at the time, led by conservative [[President of Chile|President]] [[Jorge Alessandri]], had granted him permission to create the "Dignidad Beneficent Society" on a farm outside of [[Parral, Chile|Parral]]. Schäfer  purchased a 4400 acre ranch which he and 10 of his followers began to prepare for his congregation. In 1963, 230 members of his congregation traveled to Chile in the first wave of immigrants. Another 15 families immigrated in two more waves in 1966 and 1973. Schäfer may have been influenced to move to South America by prophecies of William Branham who repeatedly predicted an imminent nuclear war that would devastate the western nations. Schäfer founded his new community on principles espoused by William Branham, including [[anti-communism]], and the society gradually evolved into the [[Colonia Dignidad]] cult community.<ref name = "sdu"/>

Schäfer kept children away from their parents in a children's house. He said, "the problems in child education aren't the children; they are always the parents because the parents are responsible for the sins of the children" (original recording).<ref name=ard>''Colonia Dignidad. Aus dem Innern einer deutschen Sekte.'' Documentary by Annette Baumeister und Wilfried Huismann. [https://www.daserste.de/information/reportage-dokumentation/dokus/sendung/colonia-dignidad-aus-dem-innern-einer-deutschen-sekte-folge-1-102.html Part 1: Aus dem Paradies in die Hölle] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200328111522/https://www.daserste.de/information/reportage-dokumentation/dokus/sendung/colonia-dignidad-aus-dem-innern-einer-deutschen-sekte-folge-1-102.html |date=28 March 2020 }}. ARD, 16 March 2020.</ref>{{rp|28:19}} With the sale of the German children's home, he bought a German stonecrusher, which he used in a quarry. The latter proved profitable in business with Chileans and after six years the first wheat could be harvested, barracks turned into houses and a hospital could be built. When Chilean children were treated and survived, their rescue brought fame to Schäfer in the region.<ref name=ard/>{{rp|35:52}}

After a nocturnal hunting accident with a gun, Schäfer was treated in a Santiago hospital for several months.{{when|date=August 2021}} Upon his return, he forbade all festivities, and separated boys from girls and men from women. In 1966, teenage fugitive Wolfgang Kneese hid in the German embassy in Chile and later talked to the press.<ref>{{Cite news |first=Evelyn |last=Finger |url=https://www.zeit.de/2016/10/colonia-dignidad-interview-wolfgang-kneese |title= Colonia Dignidad: Der Zeuge |work=Die Zeit |access-date=2020-04-03}}</ref> Schäfer induced another teen named [[Hartmut Hopp]] to smear Kneese, accusing him of sexual misconduct at a trial. Kneese managed to flee to Germany. As a reward, Schäfer allowed Hopp to study medicine, because he needed a physician in his hospital.<ref name=ard/>{{rp|1:02}}

After [[Salvador Allende]] came to power in 1970, Schäfer's community turned the compound into a fortress in fear of dispossession. Knowing that containers for his charitable organization were not checked by customs, Schäfer began smuggling weapons from Germany to the colony, including machine guns which were soon copied in his machine shops.<ref name=ard/>{{rp|1:22}} He invited political dissidents including [[Roberto Thieme]], the leader of the neo-Fascist group [[Patria y Libertad]], to the Colonia and offered it to them as a base to plan a coup against Allende.<ref name=ard/>{{rp|1:25}} During this time, Schäfer also started punishing children with electric shocks to their bodies, including to their genitalia, to keep them in line.<ref name=ard/>{{rp|1:30}}

After [[Augusto Pinochet]] came to power in 1973, Colonia Dignidad became one of the secret [[Detention (imprisonment)|detention]], torture and execution centers of the Chilean [[secret police]], the [[Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional]] (DINA), the National Intelligence Directorate during the [[Military dictatorship of Chile (1973–90)]].<ref name="falc"/>

In 1974, Pinochet visited Schäfer at Colonia Dignidad. Schäfer received the right to dig for gold and uranium, and Pinochet  a Mercedes-Benz limousine. After the US weapon embargo against Chile, Schäfer dealt with [[Gerhard Mertins]], who supplied Pinochet with weapons including rockets, tanks and equipment to produce biological weapons.<ref name=ard2>''Colonia Dignidad. Aus dem Innern einer deutschen Sekte.'' Documentary by Annette Baumeister und Wilfried Huismann. Part 2: [https://programm.ard.de/TV/daserste/colonia-dignidad---teil-2/eid_281062801934856 Aus der Finsternis ans Licht]. ARD, 23 March 2020.</ref>
In 1976, the UN published a report about Pinochet and [[Amnesty International]] found evidence of torture at the colony, which was later verified by the Chilean [[Rettig Report|National Commission for Truth and Reconciliation Report]].<ref>{{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=15 December 2013|publisher=[[Al Jazeera Media Network|AlJazeera]]|access-date=24 January 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}}</ref><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| date=15 December 2013| publisher=AlJazeera| access-date=24 January 2014| 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>
The German Embassy could no longer ignore the reports and sent a delegation to visit the colony, but said that the suspicions were without evidence. A delegation of the [[Christian Social Union in Bavaria|CSU]] visited as well and was greeted with Bavarian folkdances.<ref name=ard2/>

In 1986, [[Norbert Blüm]] visited Chile to ask Pinochet to stop the torture. Schäfer did not allow Blüm to visit the colony, which Blüm later said was a "model farm of contempt for mankind".

In 1988, the German attorney general finally started proceedings against members of the colony.<ref name=ard2/>

In 1990, after Pinochet had stepped down, [[Patricio Aylwin]] cut off state funding for Schäfer's hospital, revoking its nonprofit and charitable status, then audited the colony's businesses.<ref name="falc"/> In 1991, Schäfer privatized his various enterprises. When German Chancellor Helmut Kohl visited Chile, he said that Chile needed to open the colony, but nothing further. Schäfer then mobilized the local residents to demonstrate against the closing of his hospital until the Chilean government reopened it. Chilean children were admitted to the colony, as the colony itself had no offspring. Schäfer started molesting Chilean boys; when they resisted, he used sedatives prescribed by the colony's physician Hartmut Hopp to rape them.<ref name=ard2/>

==Underground, 1996–2005==
Only after 26 "colono" children who had attended the commune's free clinic and school reported their abuse, a judge in Santiago issued a warrant for Schäfer’s arrest, 6 years into Chile´s democratic transition. Police could not find him on the compound.<ref name="falc"/> Children continued to attend the boarding school, but support of local parents dwindled. Schäfer turned teary-eyed departures into propaganda to prove his innocence. Schäfer finally staged a farewell ceremony and disappeared into the network of tunnels and bunkers under Colonia Dignidad.<ref name=ard2/> He disappeared on 20 May 1997, escaping child [[sexual abuse|sex abuse]] charges, filed by Chilean authorities under President [[Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle]].<ref name="Guardian">{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/mar/12/warcrimes.chile |work=[[The Guardian]] |title=Fugitive Nazi cult leader arrested |date=12 March 2005 |access-date=2 April 2008 | location=London | first=Luke | last=Harding}}</ref> 
In July 1997, two boys fled to the German embassy; one of them, Tobias Müller, was flown out to Germany.<ref name=ard2/>
Schäfer was tried in absence and in late 2004 the Chilean court found him guilty.<ref name="Guardian"/>

He was also under investigation in Chile in connection with the disappearance of Russian mathematician [[Boris Weisfeiler]] and alleged [[human rights]] abuses.<ref name="Guardian"/>

As of 2005, Schäfer was also wanted in Germany and France in connection with earlier child abuse allegations.<ref>{{cite news |title=Argentina expels Chile cult head |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4344503.stm |publisher=[[BBC News]] |date=13 March 2005 |access-date=20 October 2008 }}</ref>

==Arrest and death, 2005–2010==
In March 2005, Schäfer was found <ref name="Guardian"/> nearly eight years after his disappearance, hiding in a townhouse in an expensive gated community<ref name="falc"/> known as Las Acacias, {{Convert|40|km|abbr=in}} from [[Buenos Aires]], Argentina. Following two days of negotiations between Chilean and Argentine authorities, Schäfer was extradited to Chile to face a court hearing. There, he was charged with being involved in the 1976 disappearance of the political [[Activism|activist]] [[Juan Maino]].<ref>{{cite news |title=New charges for Chile cult head |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4370607.stm |publisher=[[BBC News]] |date=22 March 2005 |access-date=20 October 2008 }}</ref>

In July 2005, police unearthed Schäfer’s buried military weaponry, much of it World War II vintage, including grenades and machine guns that were produced by the colony.<ref name="falc"/>

On 24 May 2006, Schäfer was sentenced to 20 years in jail for sexually abusing 25 children and was ordered to pay 770 million [[Chilean peso|pesos]] (approximately US$1.5 million) to 11 minors whose representatives had filed claims against Schäfer. Schäfer was found guilty of 20 counts of dishonest abuses and five counts of child [[rape]], all committed between 1993 and 1997.<ref>{{cite news |title=Chilean colony sex abuser jailed |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5014608.stm |publisher=[[BBC News]] |date=24 May 2006 |access-date=20 October 2008 }}</ref>

On 24 April 2010, Schäfer died aged 88 years<ref name="BBC">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8641882.stm|title=Chile cult leader Schaefer dies in Chile prison|date=24 April 2010|publisher=BBC News|access-date=24 April 2010}}</ref> at the Santiago de Chile's Ex-Penitentiary's Hospital due to heart failure. It was later revealed that he was suffering from a severe cardiac illness.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}}

==Literature==
* Gero Gemballa: ''Colonia Dignidad: ein deutsches Lager in Chile''. Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1988. {{ISBN|3-499-12415-7}}. (Colonia Dignidad: A German camp in Chile)
* Friedrich Paul Heller: ''Lederhosen, Dutt und Giftgas: Die Hintergründe der Colonia Dignidad''. Schmetterling Verlag, 2., erweiterte und aktualisierte Auflage, Stuttgart 2006. {{ISBN|3-89657-093-5}}. (Lederhosen, hair buns and poison gas: The backgrounds of the Colonia Dignidad)
* Ingo Lenz: ''Weg vom Leben. 36 Jahre Gefangenschaft in der deutschen Sekte'', Ullstein Verlag, Berlin. {{ISBN|3-550-07613-4}} (Away from life. 36 years' imprisonment in the German sect)
* Levenda, Peter: ''Unholy Alliance, a history of Nazi involvement with the Occult (1995) (makes trouble-fraught investigative trip to Colonia Dignidad)''. {{ISBN|0826414095}}
* Claudio R. Salinas / Hans Stange: ''Los amigos del "Dr." Schäfer. La complicidad entre el Estado chileno y Colonia Dignidad.'' Santiago de Chile 2006, {{ISBN|956-8410-06-6}}. (Friends of "Dr." Schafer: The complicity between the Chilean State and Colonia Dignidad)

== Films ==
* ''[[Colonia (film)|Colonia]]'': Release, 2015; Director, [[Florian Gallenberger]]
* ''[[The Wolf House]]'': Release, 2018; Director, [[Cristobal León & Joaquín Cociña]]
* [https://www.netflix.com/watch/80196165 Colonia Dignidad.] Aus dem Innern einer deutschen Sekte (2019). Documentary by Annette Baumeister und Wilfried Huismann. Released as a 52-minute four-part version and a 90-minute two-part version: Part 1: [https://www.daserste.de/information/reportage-dokumentation/dokus/sendung/colonia-dignidad-aus-dem-innern-einer-deutschen-sekte-folge-1-102.html Aus dem Paradies in die Hölle] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200328111522/https://www.daserste.de/information/reportage-dokumentation/dokus/sendung/colonia-dignidad-aus-dem-innern-einer-deutschen-sekte-folge-1-102.html |date=28 March 2020 }}; Part 2: [https://programm.ard.de/TV/daserste/colonia-dignidad---teil-2/eid_281062801934856 Aus der Finsternis ans Licht]. ARD, 16 and 23 March 2020.
::Review by Martin Thull: [https://www.medienkorrespondenz.de/fernsehen/artikel/annette-baumeisterwilfried-huismann-colonia-dignidadnbsp-aus-dem-innern-einer-deutschen-sekte.html ''Herausragendes Dokumentarfernsehen''], Medienkorrespondenz, 24 March 2020.

== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{cite news |first=Becky |last=Branford |title=Secrets of ex-Nazi's Chilean fiefdom |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4340591.stm |publisher=[[BBC News]] |date=11 March 2005 |access-date=20 October 2008 }}
* {{cite news |title=Judge questions Chile cult head |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4349593.stm |publisher=[[BBC News]] |date=15 March 2005 |access-date=20 October 2008 }}
* {{cite news |title=Chilean victims of ex-Nazi's cult of horrors may finally get some answers |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/07/14/chilean-victims-of-ex-nazis-cult-of-horrors-may-finally-get-some-answers/ |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=14 July 2017 |access-date=6 April 2022 }}
* {{cite magazine |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,967388-1,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090423160212/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,967388-1,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=23 April 2009 |title= Chile Colony of the Damned|access-date=2 April 2008 |last=Garcia |first=Guy D. |author2=James Graff |author3=Bonn and Laura Lopez |author4= Parral |date=16 May 1988 |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] }}
* {{cite journal |last=Falconer |first=Bruce |date=Autumn 2008 |title=The Torture Colony |journal=[[The American Scholar (magazine)|The American Scholar]] |volume=77 |issue=4 |pages=33–53 |url=https://theamericanscholar.org/the-torture-colony/ |access-date=18 April 2016 }}

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