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DBoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 12:37 AM
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Doctor accused of torturing children in Chilean "commune" (Pinochet ties)

A German woman who worked as a doctor at a commune-like camp in Chile has been charged with torturing children. A Chilean judge said Gisela Seewald had confessed to giving electric shocks and sedatives to children at the secretive German enclave of Colonia Dignidad.

She said the abuses were ordered by the enclave's founder, former Nazi soldier Paul Schaefer, who is also in custody.

Mr Schaefer is facing charges of child abuse and aiding human rights abuses during Chile's military dictatorship.


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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4565664.stm
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laststeamtrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 12:42 AM
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1. Such a bizarre story...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonia_Dignidad

The word neo-Nazi is a misnomer; it's Nazis.
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 12:47 AM
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2. Them hills in the south of Chile are full of German settlements
from early in the twentieth century. Many escaped Nazis found their way to relatives in those cities after WWII.
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MisterP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 01:01 AM
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3. lessee now...
Mengele--Brazil 1949-79
Barbie--Germany, then Bolivia 1947-80s (employed by CIA and intel, helped overthrow Boliv. government)
Schäfer--Chile 1959-2005 (cooperated extensively with Pinochet)
Rauff--Chile 1940s-84 (Zyklon-B pioneer)
Stangl--Brazil 1951-67
Eichmann--Argentina 1947-60
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