Paul Schäfer' Colonia Dignidad
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An ex-Nazi in South America leading an anti-Semitic apocalyptic cult: sounds like a bad horror movie. Paul Schäfer also known as the Permanent Uncle seem to be the archetypal cult leader, holding his followers minds and bodies in bondage. Some suspect he provided a secret storage vault for political prisoners arrested by Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet's secret police.
A winding dirt road leads to the compound where Chilean authorities say that Paul Schäfer, a former Nazi Luftwaffe medic turned lay preacher, sexually molested scores of young boys. A few yards away is a hospital where, according to former cult members, those who drew Mr. Schäfer's ire were drugged and tortured. ...
Mr. Schäfer controlled every detail of the lives of his flock, most of whom were German émigrés like himself. He decided whom and when they should marry, obliged them to turn over their newborns to be raised collectively, and, according to the court that convicted him in absentia last year, chose boys between the ages of 8 and 12 to sexually abuse.
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