Tag: Paul Schäfer

• Tuesday, May 3rd 2016 - 06:40 UTC

  Germany to declassify documents on the secretive Dignity Colony in Chile

  

  Victims of a secretive German colony in Chile hope that Germany's decision to declassify documents will help shine light on human rights abuses committed there. For three decades beginning in 1961, the enclave of Colonia Dignidad, or Dignity Colony, was the site of torture, slavery and child abuse.

• Monday, April 26th 2010 - 21:49 UTC

  Grim Chapter of Chilean History Closes with Death of Former Nazi and Cult Leader

  

  At 7:20 a.m. Saturday, former Nazi and cult leader Paul Schäfer died of heart failure in a Chilean prison hospital, closing a decades-long story of torture, tax evasion, and child sexual assault.