Colonia Dignidad - Chile's secret post war Nazi base

[TonyGosling]

Baptist - Nazi - remotre control torture chamber so you cannot indentify your torturer if you survive

this takes the biscuit

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/4340591.stm

Secrets of ex-Nazi's Chilean fiefdom
By Becky Branford
BBC News



Allegations that Schaefer abused boys were persistently ignored

Paul Schaefer - a former Nazi medic, Baptist preacher and alleged cult leader - has finally been captured in Argentina after eight years on the run.

His arrest means he may face trial on outstanding charges of the sexual abuse of young boys in Chile.

Mr Schaefer, who is in his 80s, has also been denounced by former followers and by human rights campaigners.

For them, his capture signals the end to decades of impunity for what they allege are his strange and terrible crimes.

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.

Small empire

The colony near the city of Parral, some 350km (220 miles) south of Santiago, grew to about 300 members - mostly German immigrants, or their descendants, but including some Chilean followers.



The 137-sq-km (53-sq-mile) Colonia Dignidad boasted a school, a hospital, two airstrips, a restaurant, and a power station, and reportedly made millions of dollars through a diversified range of businesses, including agriculture, mining and real estate.

It won over local people by offering jobs and free schooling and hospital care.

Details of life in the colony are hard to verify. Some visitors have described a scene from 1930s Germany, with women wearing aprons, with their hair in pigtails, and men in lederhosen.

Defenders say the members of the colony may be eccentric, but they are harmless, and in fact do good.

"I know them, and I like them," Otto Dorr Zegers, a prominent Chilean psychiatrist who has worked in the Colonia Dignidad hospital, told the New York Times.

"Their ideology is a little bit old-fashioned, like that of the Mennonites who went to the United States, but nothing justifies the co-ordinated, synchronised lies and distortions that have been invented about them."
The names of centres such as Colonia Dignidad... continue to evoke chilling memories in Chile
Amnesty International


But "defectors" from the camp paint a more sinister picture. His accusers say Colonia Dignidad was Mr Schaefer's fiefdom, where he was worshipped as a god.

They say residents, who are never allowed beyond the gates of the camp, are kept strictly segregated into genders - so much so that the birth rate of the camp is extremely low.

Residents are taught to shun sexual desires - with electric shocks administered to the genitals of young boys, former residents say.

And they accuse Mr Schaefer of the almost daily sexual abuse of young boys. Horror stories have emerged of the young sons of poor local families "disappearing" within the barriers of the compound.

Torture house

But 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.

Dissidents say they were tortured in bunkers at Colonia Dignidad


The son of Manuel Contreras - the head of Dina, Chile's now-disbanded notorious secret police - has told the Los Angeles Times his father first visited Colonia Dignidad with Gen Pinochet in 1974.

He has spoken of the warm relationship that grew between his father and Mr Schaefer.

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.

And despite decades of allegations concerning the sexual abuse of boys within the compound, charges were not filed against Schaefer until 1996 - six years after Chile began its return to democracy.

Thanks to Mr Schaefer's close links with Chile's ruling elite, the colony was able to operate with impunity as a "state within a state", said a Chilean congressional report.

Critics say elements within Chile's ruling establishment would still prefer to keep details of his involvement with Gen Pinochet's government concealed.

They say Chile must confront such allegations if it is to complete the process of coming to terms with its past.

[outsider]

I recall Colonia Dignidad being named as a torture centre and Nazi hideout years ago, probably late 70's.

Here is some info re transport subs from Veterans Today:
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/06/14/nwos-pet-u-boat-fleet-exposed/

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http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/truth-behind-secret-nazi-paedo phile-7841650
Colonia Dignidad



Truth behind secret Nazi paedophile sect where beasts raped 'slaves' in Chilean commune AFTER WW2 is revealed
23:18, 26 APR 2016 UPDATED 23:27, 26 APR 2016 BY SAM WEBB
The move will shed light on Colonia Dignidad, a commune founded in 1961 by convicted paedophile Paul Schaefer and other German immigrants in a remote part of Chile

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Picture of paedophile and former Nazi Paul Schaefer
The German government has announced it will finally open its files on a cult set up in Chile by a Nazi paedophile.

The move will shed light on Colonia Dignidad, a commune founded in 1961 by convicted paedophile Paul Schaefer and other German immigrants in a remote part of Chile.

Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier made the incredible announcement as the ministry screened a movie about the sect starring Harry Potter actress Emma Watson and Inglourious ****ards actor Daniel Bruehl.

The abuse and slavery that victims of the sect endured only came to light after the fall of Pinochet's regime.

Schäefer was born in Troisdorf, Germany, and joined the Hitler Youth movement before serving as a medic during World War II.


Read more: Lost £350million Nazi treasure stolen from Russia in WW2 'found in secret bunker'

picture of former German Nazi Corporal Paul Schafer Schneider Rex
Schaefer died in a Chilean jail in 2010
After the war he fled to Chile and set up the secretive sect on a commune, which had 300 German and Chilean residents at its height.

It even emerged that Pinochet’s secret police used the Colonia Dignidad compounds to torture dissidents - and some members of the group joined in the interrogations.

In 1997 Schaefer fled Chile, but was arrested in Argentina in 2005 and shipped back to Chile to face trial for sexual abuse of children, arms possession and human rights violations.

He died in a Chilean jail in 2010.

The handling of Colonia Dignidad was not a glorious chapter of the history of the foreign ministry," said Mr Steinmeier.

"For many years, from the 60s to the 80s, German diplomats looked the other way, and did too little to protect their citizens in this commune."

[TonyGosling]

Leaked Report: US-Backed Pinochet Dictatorship had High-Level Ties to Child-Torturing Ex-Nazi’s Fortified Cult
Posted on October 16, 2015 by Robert Barsocchini
There’s a headline for you. Yet the terms come from a Yahoo News report, which seems to be fairly well buried, as it only has one comment. And, crucially, the report makes no mention whatsoever of the US support that brought Pinochet into power and kept him propped up for almost two decades.
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/10/leaked-report-us-backed-pinoche t-dictatorship-had-high-level-ties-to-child-torturing-ex-nazis-fortifi ed-chilean-cult.html

But it does say that an ex-Nazi, Paul Schaefer, founded a German outpost in Chile called Colonia Dignidad, which was built up into a fortified, sub-state like entity, and that he ran it as a “cult”, “lord[ing] over [it] with sadistic brutality” and using the enclave for “sexually abusing and torturing children” and others.

The colony consisted of 32,000 acres, and was home to “300 refugees from Nazi Germany and their descendants.”




Pinochet

According to the leaked report, there was “a close relationship between Colonia Dignidad’s leaders and high-ranking figures” in the US-backed Pinochet dictatorship.

The close relationship between the US and Pinochet, which goes unmentioned in Yahoo’s coverage, is so well known that even CIA-edited Wikipedia provides an adequate summary, with a separate section on the 1973 coup, which brought Pinochet to power, titled “US Involvement“. The US began working against the mild leftist Allende movement in Chile in 1958, and on 9/11/1973 played a crucial role in overthrowing Allende, who had been elected president, and installing the fascist Pinochet military dictatorship, which went on to kill and/or torture tens of thousands.

The US stated internally at the time that “[t]he U.S. has no vital national interests within Chile… The world military balance of power would not be significantly altered by an Allende government.”

But Allende, a medical doctor, was “trying to deliver food, health care, and education to the poor”, giving free milk to children, “advocat[ing] income redistribution to the poor, expand[ing] trade with the Soviet Bloc, and, most worrisome, nationaliz[ing] Chile’s powerful mining corporations.”

As Bob Harris puts it, “Wall Street was about to lose a few bucks”, so the game was on, and the first 9/11, a US terrorist operation to install a totalitarian state harsh enough to ally with Nazi child-torturers, was imminent, even if, as Yahoo and many in the US might prefer, unmentionable.

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[TonyGosling]

Clearly the House of Israel was instrumental in sustaining the Burnham regime. In Chile, a similar Utopian community would be called in service under the notorious Pinochet regime after the first democratically elected Marxist president of Latin America, Salvador Allende, was removed and assassinated during a military coup in the early 1970s. This community, which would become a close alley of the Pinochet regime, was known as Colonia Dignidad. Like Jonestown, it was described as an an agricultural experiment and headed by a controversial minister.
"Paul Schafer was one of the founders of the Colony of Righteousness and was, and is, its only leader. Schafer jumped bail in Germany in 1961 on charges of child sexual abuse, but that did not stop him from taking a group of families with him when he fled to Chile, arriving there in 1962 at the age of forty with around sixty 'blonde, blue-eyed settlers'... including some children who were brought there under false pretenses, taken from their families back in Germany. His flock came from the town of Siegburg, across the Rhine from Bonn, where Schafer claimed to be a psychologist, and where he ran a youth home where the sexual-abuse charges originated. Schafer, also the leader of a Baptist sect (a sect which evidently condones sexual intercourse between adults and children among other peculiarities), bought an old ranch called El Lavadero about 250 miles south of Santiago in the Parral region and quickly converted it into a self-sufficient, model community known as Colonia Dignidad, the 'Colony of Righteousness' or 'Dignity Colony.'
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The Colony
"The population of the Colony eventually grew to about 350, composed of 250 adults and 100 children. According to reports in the Chilean and German press, the sexes are rigorously separated and sexual intercourse is forbidden (except, one gathers, at the discretion of Schafer). And, since sex is prohibited, the only way the Colony has been able to increase its population has been by 'importing' children from Germany. German authorities have been investigating charges that from thirty to forty children reported missing from Bonn and Cologne areas have wound up at the Colony. Thus, charges of both child abuse and international child abduction have been leveled at this remote cult community by eyewitnesses, escapees, and responsible members of the West German and Chilean governments. The parallels between Colonia Dignidad and the stories told by 'satanic cult survivors' however, are even stronger.

"Spanish is not spoken: instead, only German, and, oddly, English are used. Old-fashioned, 1940s-era clothing is worn and fourteen-hour workdays are the norm. No television, radio, or newspapers are allowed in the Colony. There is, however, a shortwave unit on the premises which is used to communicate with an office the Colony maintains in Santiago...

"The Colony established a free clinic on its premises: free, that is, on specific days of the week to members of the local population. They also have their own factory for processing meat, power plant... and their own airfield. By 1985, they had even opened their own roadside restaurant on the Pan American Highway.

"Accounts of the size of the Colony vary from news report to news report. Everything from 12,000 acres to 37,000 acres has been offered, and accounts of its operations also include mine, a lumber mill, and a gravel factory. The author believes it is safe to say that the Colony has grown considerably over the years and that estimates of a 37,000-acre settlement might not be far from the mark, considering the other purposes to which the Colony was put both during and after the Allende regime."

(Unholy Alliance, Peter Levenda, pgs. 313-314)
Even before the military coup that toppled the Allende regime, strange allegations were surfacing concerning the Colony (aside from child abductions and sexual abuse, of course).Image

Schafer
"...in 1966, the first of many accusations against Schafer and the Colony surfaced when Wolfgang Muller escaped the 'watchdogs, electronic alarms and six-foot barbed wire fences to describe life inside the Colony. Muller - who had been brought over from Germany as a member of the original Sieburg group when he was sixteen - claimed that he had been forced into slave labor at the Colony, was beaten, and had been sexually abused by Schafer in Germany when he was twelve years old. One of Muller's more interesting claims - especially in light of later events - is his insistence that Schafer had given him 'memory-altering drugs' when Muller attempted to rebel or to reveal the details of his abuse at Schafer's hands. He also complained of electroshock treatments being administered by camp doctors (shades of Barbie at Montluc Prison). After his escape, he wound up at the West German embassy in Santiago and now lives in that country under an assumed name, still afraid for his life."

(ibid, pg. 315)
Child abuse, memory altering drugs, electroshock treatments - it was into this fertile environment some of the Pincochet regime's more unfortunate political prisoners found themselves. The primary liaison between Colonia Dignidad and the Pincochet regime was an American CIA agent named Michael Townley who also served as a member of the Chilean secret police in addition to helping plan the military coup that ousted Allende.
"By the spring of 1973, however, rumors of an impending military coup were rampant in the capital. Among the conspirators creating discord both in the city and in the countryside was a young American, Michael Vernon Townley. Townley was a member of Patria y Libertad and an associate of other right-wing terror groups. A right-wing fanatic himself who carried out assignments for a variety of masters, Townley also contributed to the development of the interrogation program at Colonia Dignidad.

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Townley
"Working directly for, and reporting to, the generals, Townley was given the rank of major in the Chilean Army and together with Colonel Pedro Espinosa and the Chilean Secret Police (DINA), liaised with Patria y Libertad to create a climate of terror in the country conductive to a military coup...

"With the coup, however, the Colony got a chance to put its electroshock and narcotics 'therapies' to the test. Townley and DINA agents had the run of the Colony, both at Parral and at the Colony office in Santiago. While DINA maintained contact with its agents all over the world through the Colony's radio link, Townley helped design the specially equipped interrogation cells. These were tiny, soundproofed rooms built underground where 'poltical prisoners' were taken not only for actual; interrogation of a political or military nature, but also for the purpose of developing new methods of torture.

"At first, each prisoner was questioned closely to obtain sufficient information concerning his or her personality in order to develop an appropriate torture and interrogation scheme. This individualized approach is already well known to the intelligence professionals the author has come into contact over the years. The ostensible goal is to enable the interrogator to so finely tune the torture procedure that the victim surrenders his or her will more completely, more expeditiously. In practice, however, and with such a 'scientifically' adjusted scheme of programmed sadism, there is tremendous room for an interrogator who is so inclined to subject the victim to unimaginable suffering over a long and sustained period of time. That this is what, in fact, took place at the Colony is beyond doubt..."

(ibid, pgs. 317-320)
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Bound for Gitmo
According to a UN report Levenda cites, detainees of the Colony had their heads covered with leather hoods, and were then taken to these underground cells were they were subjected to a bombardment of electronic equipment including loudspeakers and microphones in addition to electric shocks. The Colony's interrogation techniques have shades of both Gitmo and 1984 in addition to the CIA's own experiments in its various MK-ULTRA projects.

Over course, it won't come as a surprise to learn that Paul Schafer was a former Nazi who maintained ties with some of the more notorious war criminals in hiding in South America. Josef Mengele is widely believed to have been a guest of the Colony, for instance. Certainly his 'expertise' and first-hand experience in 'enhanced' interrogation methods would have been much appreciated there. Mengele and Michael Townley would have surely had some interesting conversations.

ImagePaul Schafer was finally forced out of Chile in 1997 as charges of child molestation were finally brought against him. In 2005 he was arrested in Argentina and extradited to Chile where he was given a 20 year prison sentence. Shortly after Schafer's arrest, the Colony was raided which led to the discovery of a massive cache of weapons that included machine guns, rocket launchers and even a tank. As of 2005 the Colony had been taken over by Chilean officials.

While its certainly lovely that Schafer and the Colony were finally brought down, researchers have asserted that Colonia Dignidad was but one such camp in South America. Another rumored campsite supposedly existed at Pisagua, Chile. It is now acknowledged that there was some kind of prison camp at this location. The similarities between Colonia Dignidad and Hilltown are also striking. Both communities, which featured fanatical followers from foreign countries driven by doctrines of racial superiority, were incorporated into the security apparatuses of the two nations they became involved in. The major differences seem to be that Hilltown, with over 8000 residents, was more of an overt paramilitary force while Colonia Dignidad was geared more toward 'intelligence' work.

And that brings us to Jonestown. Is it possible that Jonestown was always intended as a site not unlike Colonia Dignidad? As unlikely as this may sound to some, there are several remarkable similarities to Jonestown and Colonia Dignidad, as we shall soon see. Further, there are equally curious US intelligence ties to both sites.

All this shall be examined in the next installment.

https://www.sott.net/article/244755-Latin-American-High-Weirdness-Hand -of-Death-Satanic-CIA-Cult-Network

[TonyGosling]

How I survived Chile's torture commune run by Pinochet's paedophile Nazi pal
22:42, 5 JUL 2016 UPDATED 23:03, 5 JUL 2016
BY EMMA PIETRAS
Erick Zott Chuecas lived through the ordeal in the aftermath of Chile’s 1973 military coup as featured in Emma Watson's new film The Colony
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/how-survived-chiles-torture-co mmune-8357695

Blindfolded and strapped to a bed in an underground tunnel, the prisoner braces himself, knowing there will be no escape from the agonising electric shocks about to be inflicted.

This harrowing torture scene features in Emma Watson’s new film The Colony. But what makes it even more disturbing is that it is no work of Hollywood fiction.

Erick Zott Chuecas lived through the ordeal when he was kidnapped in the aftermath of Chile’s 1973 military coup.

The 67-year-old says: “It’s a horror story, that in reality lasted more than four decades, summed up in just under two hours.

“I’ve already seen the film four times and each time it made me cry. I felt I was taken back in time. The reaction of the public made it even more emotional.

“People are shocked and ask, ‘How was it possible that this thing happened in Chile?’.”

The thriller tells the story of a couple caught up in the coup as Emma’s character Lena infiltrates a secretive German immigrant commune, called Colonia Dignidad – Dignity Colony – in an attempt to rescue boyfriend Daniel, played by Daniel Bruhl.

Like Daniel, Erick was tortured at the enclave – founded in 1961 by Nazi paedophile Paul Schafer – for daring to oppose Augusto Pinochet’s military dictatorship of Chile.

While Erick suffered many different types of torture , electricity was used most often.

MajesticErick Zott ChuecasColony and concentration camp survivor Erick Zott Chuecas
He says: “They put it all over my body, in my head, in my mouth. I’m not able to say how many times they did it exactly, but they did it a lot of the time – it was the way it was.

“Whatever opportunity they had, they would use this form of torture.

“It was terrible. As a human being we have natural defences, but each time it happened my body would completely break down, it would go into shock. But in these moments the biggest motivation was to keep on living.”

An estimated 45,000 people were rounded up, interrogated and tortured in Chile.

About 2,200 were executed and 1,200 disappeared across the country. And the colony became one of the most notorious places dissenters found themselves.

Its founder Schafer, a baptist preacher, had fled West Germany in 1958 with his followers after being charged with child abuse.

He was revered as god-like by the members of the colony, built at the foot of the Andes in southern Chile, and oversaw the abuse of children and torture of prisoners sent by Pinochet.

[outsider]

I believe Left governments like in Venezuela, Cuba, Ecuador, Bolivia, Argentina and Brazil failed in pushing these kind of films on National TV, as a way of reminding, or teaching, what American-backed Oligarchs and Military did to the people, and by inference, what they are perfectly likely to do again, given the chance.
Films like 'Missing', 'Midnight Express' and others.