The Colony: Chile's dark past uncovered | Al Jazeera Correspondent
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- Опубліковано 8 лис 2013
- How did a secret German sect in Chile become a haven for Nazi fugitives and a torture centre for the Pinochet regime?
Forty years after the US-backed military coup that brought General Augusto Pinochet to power in Chile, the truth about the sordid abuses and crimes that took place during his dictatorship are still emerging.
The mountains of Patagonia in southern Chile witnessed a particularly bizarre chapter of the Pinochet era; one that is still claiming victims today.
In 1961, a former Nazi corporal called Paul Schaefer fled Germany, along with hundreds of others, to found a sect in southern Chile. In an idyllic rural enclave framed by the Andes Mountains he created a virtual state within a state - one where horrifying events unfolded.
Initially with the ignorance of the government, and then with the complicity of the Pinochet regime, children were separated from their parents at birth and raised in a Kinder House. Men and women were kept apart and often drugged, while Schaefer systematically sexually abused boys and, occasionally, girls.
It also served as a haven for Nazi fugitives - such as Walter Rauff, the inventor of the portable gas chamber, and Joseph Mengele, the so-called 'Angel of Death' - who were permitted to hide out there in exchange for overseeing sophisticated forms of torture.
All of this took place with the full knowledge of the Pinochet regime, whose notorious intelligence chief, General Manuel Contreras, would often visit the site.
In The Colony: Chile's dark past uncovered, the truth about what took place inside the Colony is revealed through the story of Winfried Hempel. Now 35, Hempel was born into the Colony and raised there without any knowledge of who his parents were. When he first left its grounds, he was 20 years old, spoke no Spanish, had no notion of the country in which he lived and had never seen a television, computer or mobile phone.
Although he initially struggled to adapt to the world beyond Colonia Dignidad, he gradually learned to speak Spanish, received his high school certificate and eventually qualified as a lawyer.
Al Jazeera's Lucia Newman has followed the story of the Colonia Dignidad since 1996 - at one point even being turned away from the site at gunpoint. As a Chilean, she wants to expose the crimes that took place there - crimes that her country was not only complicit in, but an active participant to.
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The fact that the German Embassy in Chile gave Schaefer diplomatic status proves that it was complicit in his crimes against humanity.
Which is why both the individuals directly involved as well the entire German government as a whole should be investigated and held accountable for what happened, the German government in particular for directly supporting active Nazis and their criminal enterprises.
Governments usually are
And still are with all that's happening today. Many governments are for many Nazis left Germany and continued these sick practices within governments and universities and in the hills like this. NASA and CIA in USA is one of them that still have power over all of us today
6 Million Nazis and only a handful actually held "accountable" the rest still live within governments today
@@kdjfjshwbwj8206 America and Canadian governments accepted them as well in exchange for scientist, technology, info, on other nations, bribes, ect
Appalling that the Colony is being turned into a tourist attraction. It should be a museum to remind humanity of the atrocities that we are capable of. Justice needs to be had.
Not only appalling but also sick, perverse and twisted. Those responsible should hang their haeds in shame and think about what they are doing.
a museum is built - the mission of the Colony is educational - i've not been yet but will do so this year or next.
bulldoze to the ground I say
It’s still a thriving community. Totally weird, it’s like German land at Disney in the middle of the Amazon. They wear traditional dress, eat, traditional foods, speak German. It’s like falling through a wormhole and landing in Germany 1930
Mark James, What is destroyed is easier to ignore and deny.
It's crazy how much evil is hidden in the world.
You dont know half of it. Look up the south end of brazil.
It's only hidden because it's ignored.
Yes agreed , some dictators , leaders , etc are OUSTED , but it's usually for financial reasons , let's hope this type of thing is dying out.
@@michellelowe7082 or supported
Mor important how it is presented as anti communism and freedom and religion
I love Al Jazeera because you hear about stories that the mainstream media shy away from. Important stories from people who need to be heard. Excellent documentary but harrowing story.
I argue with my hindu friends and also tell them positive side of this channel.
They don't shy away, they boldly ignore and deny truth and reality.
Indeed, it seems to be the first report investigation about it.
There is a film, Colonia, made in 2015; a documentary made by DW in 2016; a Chilean-German miniseries, Dignity, made in 2019; and a miniseries documentary made by Netflix, A Sinister Sect Colonia Dignidad, in 2021 (this one is kind of bad made)
@@Malik-Ibi doesn't this remind you of the Epstein and mosad connection, and subsequent cover up. Is this where this pedophilic desgusting perversions emerged from? It's funny mosad had rather strange connections to both. Weird...
Go back to Germany
Broke my heart when the gentleman talked about not being able to sleep at night because he did not know his mother or father. Way too many stories like this throughout history. Heart-wrenching.
Yeah me too. I don't know him but he is seems like a really kind person. Made me cry.
Same.
Same here...tears welled up in my eyes.....
That happened in England too. Orphans in workhouses.
Me too
It’s incredible that at the age of 20 not knowing even how an automatic door works and being abused his whole life , he has turned into such a fantastic, articulate, incredibly caring and humane person , it just proves that good can survive in even the most insane environment of evil, we should never give up the fight to end these atrocities
I know, now ask African Americans what's their excuse.
@@wedontlikenoneofyou you’re view is too narrow. Get out and actually meet some people that look like that. Stop being fearful
@@isaacvasquez939 your rectums too narrow go get a colonoscopy for that. Yikes!!!
😎and that folks is how you own an internet troll with no money ^^^ 😎😎😎
@@wedontlikenoneofyou you're the troll here
Psychopaths! These poor dear children. I wish I could remove all their pain and lifetime suffering. Thank you for exposing this.
Nikki D shame on their parents who were too cowardly to defend their young. Animals in the wild defend their young to the death, human beneath them.
@@riverice7 ...you are correct. Why couldn't the parents have secretly communicated, then held a rebellion?
How many people (adults) in total were in this community?
@Grace Munich You raise very valid points. These small communities that isolate themselves from the general community are very strange, to say the least! Makes one suspicious that they choose to do so because they are hiding someone or something
Annette youtube ll
@@nikkid4890 It's called a sect, it happens all over the world all the time
He is such a brave man to continue to fight to have the governments of Chile and Germany pay for what they allowed to happen to children.
@A Pacifist Machine Gunner That's not true...
Lucia Newman is such a professional and dignified journalist. She speaks well and clearly and it's a pleasure to listen to her...always.
I concur 😇
@@HisChildMelissa75 Typical Fascist response.
Me too like listening to her since her days at cnn. 🇬🇾
Yes, very good and helpful for those of us from the UK that it was in English, not Spanish. Thanks
@@kimobrien. Work on your English comprehension Komrade Boris.
WHY would anyone stay at that hotel?!? It's like renting a room at Auschwitz FFS!!!
Exactly
You don’t really know what auwshwitz was like, don’t minimize the suffering there
😂😂😂 facts
Or an American plantation house
The hotel may be popular with pedophiles.
I am chilean, and I feel very sorry for this evil situation that happened in my country.
I feel embarrassed about my liders, seeing Ricardo Lagos saying it has happened a long time ago!!!!! WTF!!!!
That was happening in our country!!!!!! What a shame .
Thank god I found out about this useless country never going to step even in Chile
And Pinochet legacy of horror... However, Chileans are the synonym of resilience and excellence, you have come so far. Blessings to your country.
As I understand, the current Chilean rulers still owe much to Pinochet and his awful dictatorship. And still have ties with many of the former army brutes who abducted, tortured and killed their own citizens. Sad to say but I am afraid that your country is still very corrupt. It will take at least a generation or even two generations before Chili can really come to terms with its past, if ever. Just look at Spain and the legacy of Franco. It is very similar to your recent history. In Spain as well, there are many people owing their wealth and privileges to, basically, an absolute scumbag. Of course, they will oppose any serious investigation into the shady and dark past of their own country. They have all the reasons to do everything to hide the truth.
@@claudialu Maggie Thatcher " Britain's Saviour" was friends with Pinochet.
@@mystified1429 Just like Kissinger and all the dictatorships that broke in the continent.
I first learned the name Paul Schäfer at the age of eight, when my family moved to a new place in Germany. There he had done a lot of damage to the christian community, but nothing in comparison with what he did in Chile. This is the best report on Colonia Dignidad that I've ever seen! Thank you so much, Lucia Newman and Al Jazeera! Great work!
As far as I've read Shafer was a stretcher-bearer during WW II, not a nuse or a medic, as they say here or in other places.
It was so nice to see and hear Lucia Newman reporting. I love her tough, sensible, well spoken way. I hope all victims continue to recover respectfully.
People forget Joseph mengele died of old age (stroke) while swimming off a beach in Brazil under the alias Wolfgang Bernard
It's reprehensible that this monster lived a full life, when he took the lives of so many others.
So you think Karma or God exist?
@@jayluis189 No
That’s gotta be rough on your mental
The German company, Mengele, should've been dissolved and sold. All assets given to victims of Mengele.
isolate + traumatize = the narcissist’s recipe
jacki jura they dont do it to outgoing people. They only that to the quiet ones who they can pick on. Runts. Runts is who they do it to. And of anything ever happens to you, tell absolutely nobody. If you go through something with witnesses you then have the light to tell. Other than that tell absoluteoy no one. Stories online are okay but stay completely anonymous.
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Exactly
That poor man when he crys it killed me 😢
🙏🏻
He needs a mother
Me too... 😞💔
It broke my heart, it was tough to watch.
Me too.
Anyone hear about this from joe rogan?
yep , thats where i just heard about it n had to come look it up
Yep lmaoooo
Frank Joseph and Joe brought me here
Yes 5 minutes ago
yes. joe rogan as educator :)
These survivors are so strong, so brave Thank you for telling your story. I pray God heals every memory, every painful one & uses your story to heal other victims!
Amen
I was in Chile in late 90’s with a Rotary exchange of young professionals- one of our sponsor couples spoke fluent English ( most did not) and gave us a shocking accounting of how untouchable this place was. The horrible hidden secret in plain site. “Your life goes much easier if you ignore what is happening, while your heart is breaking”.
Sometimes the truth is obvious but our minds beliefs blind us. Beliefs can be manipulated to blind us.
lol wtf Pinochet left office in 1990, maybe she was remembering the dictatorship times because that sounds super weird
I see you edited your comment, it makes sense now
WHAT A SICKENING, NAUSEOUS,DISCUSSTING STORY .THANK GOODNESS, THE YOUNG VICTIM IS A LAWYER. JUSTICE ⚖ FOR THE CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY AND INNOCENCE..HAS TO HAPPEN. GOD BLESS HIM.🙏🙏🙏❤❤❤✌✌✌
Rare, cause I am Chilean and I can say we didn't know even remotely what was happening there. For us they were German population that wanted to live close to their costumes.
Truth will always prevail, whatever is hidden will be revealed. God bless you for telling this story.
lets be honest and call it for what it was. not a colony but a cult!!
A paedophile cult.
So it's safe to say the LARGEST CULT is *CHRISTIANITY* .......
@@Aeon1019 no
Truly shocking. I praise Al Jazeera for this very important documentary and for the survivors and journalist for bringing the story to the masses. I hope that the court case is successful and the survivors finally get the justice they deserve. Any nations and their citizens that do not want to acknowledge the dark parts of their past will be doomed to repeat them again and again.
Hammacher Schlemmer chile would've been better under Allende if America didn't sabotage his regime
This is true, I am from South America and makes me shameful, in the colony of Dignidad and in 20th century committed those crimes against children, and got full support from government in change to get benefit. I hope soon those victims have justice.
It was tim Kennedy and his team, not al jazeera
Mo “shocking”
Great comment.But as you know in this kind of cases,there is no justice, unfortunately.
Im right here thinking " oh look here a nice story of a german colony in chile, this should be interesting" boy was i wrong
Orlando Sanchez LOL! OFF THE PLANET WRONG! A honest mistake though. The way it's presented.
Kissinger
Same here
the beautiful stories about the German colonists in Chile can be watched in Al Sur del Mundo's UA-cam channel, really beautiful documentaries ablut the German culture of the Llanquihue lake and such, check it out it's just magical
@@felipeoyarzun5424 Go back to Germany
Why do people trust preachers? Seriously.
Well they are dumb enough to trust the government with their kids... so go figure.
JESUITS
My theory is that they don't read and study the Bible for themselves. So they fall for lies because they don't know the truth for themselves. If they had a basic knowledge of biblical principles, then they would be able to expose phony ministers like this man. But being at a knowledge deficit of the Bible leaves you more susceptible. For Predators like this man.
The video reports on that. "The children were taken out of there Family" Meaning.... kidnapped
The children of preachers are also horrible people.
I can't believe something like this was happening in my lifetime. My heart goes out to all those children. Amazed at those who have been able to move on and zek justice. 💔💗
You're a part of the problem. Always "TOO BLIND" to see what was happening while you reap the benefits of it. Part of the problem in this world
@@kwamebushman606 tell us what we can do to know earlier ?
@@kwamebushman606 oh? What have you done to help then?
The movie with Emma Watson is amazing, and what's even more amazing are the ammounts of prison time sentenced to those f-ing animals!!!
My heart goes out to all the victims
What movie ?
UrFavouriteGal1 movie is called Colonia... Was on Netflix and then was taken off...
Its a very good movie and quite brave for the stars and makers to make it. If you like this I also reccomend "The Whistleblower" starring Rachel Weisz.
How can it be amazing if Emma Watson is in it 😫🤮
@@99ron30 I watched the whistleblower. A very good movie.
This sounds, in many ways, like what went on with Jim Jones and the People’s Temple.
It was just like slavery. Women and men where lynched , raped , branded, babies and young children where snatched from their mothers an used as alligator bait. Children as young as five years were sent to the fields to work from sun up to sun down with their parents . The difference...we endured it for five hundred.
Years.
Many cults like this have existed before. Branch Dividians, David Koresh.
😳 oh my god...I’m slowly starting to realize that Scientology operates in the SAME EXACT WAY! It’s almost like this is the playbook. Wow...
How so? Share and spread information. Once they invited me over and I didn't feel like assisting.
C D - Scientology: Separating children from their families is a big one, especially at an early age. The Sea Org comes to mind. Sexual abuse of those children occurred as well. Some even killed themselves. Adults have jobs within the cult but no wage to speak of. They are very insular and not allowed access to outside information, media, etc. They practice humiliation of current and former members. They also practice betrayal of each other, so whenever a member hears or sees something they consider unacceptable, they write it down and send that information or talk about it during one of those sessions they have. The members also have to do confessions as well. The cult makes money off of the members they have telling them they need to get to higher levels and each level is more expensive. They are always trying to recruit. Members disappear and no one is safe: Miscavige’s wife has been “missing” for years and no one in the org seems to care. The similarities are uncanny and I wouldn’t have known as much if I didn’t watch Leah Remini’s docu-series.
What I wanna know is where Hubbard and this Schäfer dude learn how to operate a cult.
@@c-light7624 I think humans have done these things for thousands of years, unfortunately - the human psyche hasn't changed much in that time ...
@@kathleenmaryparker8662 it’s not the human psyche itself that’s the problem, but rather the cycle of abuse... psychologist Alice Miller has fantastic books on how the whole mechanism functions.
and almost like the FLDS has the same copy of the playbook too
In german media, this was a wide spread, true and horrifying story. Even movies have been made about this topic.
Yet, the far right in Germany is gaining more strength as decades go by...
@@daniluchison Very true.
@@daniluchison Most Germans would agree with you. It seems like a lot of tensions in other countries get stronger with each year as well. There is no right or wrong for most people anymore. There's being on "our" or on "their" side.
@@balabanasireti good v evil , the good side are winning PATIENCE will be rewarded.
@@balabanasireti 1 yr later and esp in usa you are so right!
Never heard about this before. Watched the Netflix movie Colonia and was shocked to see it was based on a true story. There's a whole is evil in this world. Every victimizer should be tortured to death. What a horrible thing.
Netflix the home of pedophile apologists. Wake up
My
There is another documentary about it made by DW
@Pílula de Internet That miniseries doc is reductionist, it doesn't tell a lot of things.
“Every victimizer should be tortured to death.” That’s what the evil people also think. They just think that they are the ones who are right and that others are wrong.
Thank you Al Jazeera for telling a truth that other media outlets and our own government shy away from. Love to be able to watch this Channel. It is refreshing to see true and fair journalism. I grow up in Chile and from an early age I heard stories about Colonia Dignidad and Nazis hiding in Chile but no one did anything. What a shame. I hope that justice will prevailed for all the victims. So sad.
Go back to Germany
The cruelest people hide behind faith and religion. You know a person is bad when they try to separate parents from their children.
This is the shame of chilean democracy, police never did anything, a journalist had to find schaeffer, this place still function and now its opened for tourism, runned by the same people who were at the top with schaeffer. The chilean state should be ashamed of itself and us chileans must stop supporting villa baviera and their business, its shameful.
Not true, it was an investigator in Santiago that convinced a judge to order a warrant for the pedo pig.
It goes way deeper than that, i am from chile too, born in santiago. The secretes and information that the germans had on chile officials and people in general was too much, thats why they never really intervened. It was because of all the secretes the germans had made them gain power.
18:54
Intelligence without wisdom is unintelligible and dangerous.
We put far too much emphasis on intelligence, and far too little on wisdom.
Wisdom teaches how to most properly, effectively and efficiently allot intelligence in the most beneficial way.
Perfect wisdom is dignity and unconditional love.
It is painful to know that this kind of torture/ treatment/ abuse still exist and the victims can not voice their suffering because there is a price to pay if you complain.
The Nazis were bad but it was the Latin American dictators who gave them jobs like Pinochet and Peron etc and protected them in return for money from Martin Bormann who didn't die in Berlin but escaped to Argentina via Spain with a whole stash of money, gold and other valuables etc.
Jon Hart, hate to break the news to you, but they found and identified the remains of Martin Bormann in Berlin where he died trying to flee the Bunker.
Bullshit
Also responsible is the USA who protected many Nazis for their own gain.
Excellent documentary, a real eye opener. Well done.
What a misnomer Dignidad, when there was no dignity.
I know the world isn’t a place filled with rainbows and unicorns at every turn, but as a 26 year old man I actually still struggle to wrap my head around the fact that there are people this evil, sociopathic and criminal roaming our streets and breathing our air. There is being a bad person, and then there’s this. Methodical,, relentless manipulation and pain inflicted by real life monsters.
😱😩Wow. 😔
🙏Wishing blessings, healing & justice to all of the victims. 🤗💞🤗
Speaking as a Bible believer, those who claim to "follow the Bible" often take it out of context and twist verses to make it say what they want.
I agree! I'm not even a Christian but condemning the Bible because of all sick people that used the Bible for their own benefits is completely wrong. I actually love the new testament and believe in God. But as you said a lot of people take things out of context.
What a crazy story. It seems like something someone would make up, a book or something out of this world. Insane that it was a reality.
There are a few films about it. Many books.
i found out about it after watching emma watson's film, called collonia, amazing film!
Could you please tell what are these books?
The horrors described are beyond concoction or imagination. Fairytales exist so the human mind can come to grasp there are monsters amongst us. And that their psyches is beyond our comprehension.
There's a film starring Emma watson in it
A heart breaking story... Well done to the journalist presenting this article no one could of done it better.. A brilliant documentary
flowers 🌸 💗💓🌸 🌹🌹💐🌺
🌼🥀 Hugs for the victims.. for the suffering and trauma they endured at the hands of these psychopathic perverted control freaks..
makes me smile they have moved on become educated married reunited with family.. 💓🌸🌹
@L B I didn't make the fxxking video did I? In this world anything is possible..the world is controlled by evil human beings
Have you any idea there are hundreds of atrosites unimaginable horror have been happening in all centuries
where is your proof it never happened?
Go to the one who made the video..why come to me ?
@L B Al jezzera lies. What about the rest of the worlds journalism are you saying they don't post fake news ?
TY for filming & researching this! The shame lies with the Abusers, & the People that enabled them. Pls, bring Justice to all the Many Victims 😡❤️🇨🇦🙏🏼
People like this monster gives Christians a bad name.
chantilly lace
IM SORRY NOT A CHRISTIAN ONE BIT. A WOLF DRESSED AS A LAMB... YES 100%
HE HAD NOTHING AT ALL TO DO WITH CHRIST...
HE WAS A SON OF THE DEVIL AND NOW IS WITH HIS FATHER EXPENDING TIME TOGETHER.
BLESSINGS
A monster? Pinochet was a hero. You know nothing about the recent history of Chile & what we went through.
Bams9 she's not talking about Pinochet you moron.
Only if you dont what a christian is
Cults are NOT CHRISTIAN
@@gersonpinto8905 Christianity is a cult, wake up man
the very tall skyscraper at the end is owned by Horst Paulmann, a well known acquaintance of Colonia Dignidad and one of the richest men in the country... So I guess it will be difficult for the victims
His father was SS.
The Germans should be held accountable of the horrors in Africa......
By whom?
Well your right, all I meant was for their own crime. If individuals pay for a crime committed so nations should be held accountable. All this nations have blood on their hands and owe a lot to the world, for the destruction of cultures languages and most importantly human lives . They are supposed to be indebted to Africa and places like India etc , not the other way round.
2 mins in and this poor guy is breaking my heart. I hope you find Solace kind gentleman.
🙏Praying for mental, emotional, and physical healing of these victims. 💞✝️💞 Hope Winfried Hempel wins against the Chilean and German governments for these horrific crimes against children and adults.
Si una Oracion para sanar sus corazoncitos
Great episode and great documentary, Thanks Lucia and AJE
Maybe Schaefer and Warren Jeffs are burning together.
And they call us indigenous people savages
Both can be true.
Such bravery and great courage displayed by the weakest and most broken. Love sent your way.
Jeeezzz!!! So much evil in this 🌎 world. Hope these victims find healing
Nothing is worse than abusing a child. It haunts them throughout their lives.. So if we see or feel something thats not right in a child we have to speak up & defend.
I would never forgive my parents if they brought me to a place like this
Sounds like Scientology
And, that is different from other religions?
Tom Cruise eats children, we all know.
This is like those Irish magdalen laundries
What’s up with Germans and all that crazy testing on human subjects?!!!
What government doesn't treat its citizens as "subjects?"
They just liked authentic experiments on human subjects rather than on mice.
Horrendous. Thanks for bringing this crime against humanity to our attention.
Secrets always grow in the dark. And lies always lead to secrets. And what grows in the dark is pain, and horror and is the breeding ground of more evil.
It wasn't just the leader or "the Colony" that was responsible, it was ALL of the adults living there, who supported the abuse and exploitation. All of them were both victims and perpetrators at the same time. That's why they stick together and now continue to live in the same community.
A love for order can be a good thing in the right dosage, but can easily turn into a totalitarian regime, when horrific things are overlooked by everyone just to maintain the appearance of "order".
And chances are these were not random German families who simply heard about this cult and decided to join. These were people who had something to hide and chose to stick with others just like them. The Chilean and German governments definitely have all the info. Heck, the German embassy sent the victims back into the colony when they came for help! Disgusting.
I've now heard your stories and glad I did. I can now pray for you all.
It annoyed me everytime she said 'colony'. It clearly has all the hallmarks of a cult.
without Al Jazeera we would not know a lot of what is going on in the world thank you very much for your news and Outlook
A german Hotel what is this ??!!!!! Why !!??? Who goes to a place like this i Dont und er stand this is sick
Margaret Thatcher's ally and friend....Pinochet....that's Tories and Thatcherism for you
Present Day Australia .
I still hate Thatcher. 💀
Why do they keep saying “flock” when it’s said “cult”?
Cults like this still exist is several countries. And the abuse and psychological torture and manipulation still exists.
@@Amazing20225 I think that we should form a coalition to identify and investigate these cults, Africa would be the biggest hotspot, but 1st world country cults would also be big hits, since this should not exist under our own noses, in our own homes.
It’s documentaries such as these... along with modern technology( internet) that has woken me up to the fact that I have been living on the surface of what I thought was a ‘wonderful world’. What truly lay ‘ beneath’ ... does not give me much hope for the future. Totally feeling disgusted in mankind.... what we have done and are capable of doing to one another throughout history .. past and present truly sickens me to the core! God help us~
Focus on what you can change. Don't look at the world but your world, there are many in need. Be of service, it will give you hope. You will create hope in others.
@@Tipperary757 ..thank you for your encouraging reply, I do try my best to be a good person. I do what I can to help others and animals when I can in “ my world” but I sometimes get overwhelmed and smothered by the world beyond … it’s a battle for me at times. Blessings 🙏
To think, that there are millions upon millions of people living like this today
Ex-president Lagos sounded like he didn't know anything. He was the president (2000-2006) for 6 years and he didn't do anything to help the victims. What a despicable human being.
Now, people like Schaefer go to S.E. Asia to find their "supply".
Such a beautiful place to hide such evil!
Place should be burned to the ground .
agree
I say make an example of it as the horrible place it is in Hope's it never happens again they should not be able to go on there like nothing horrible there happened
You can thank the US for the Pinochet Regime...
@Wilson Frei’s campaign received funds from the U.S. Government to help ensure his election
Yep.CIA backed Pinochet to ovetthrow legally elected Allende Govt. And I remrmber one of the opponents of Penochet was blown up in his car in downtown DC in the seventies. US the best government money can buy.And today thenUS police state is hundred times more powerful and evil.
And UK
Wilson Because it can’t have waited 3 years to overthrow him right
And youcan thank the left for supporting hitler back in the day, then stalin, mao... 100 million plus dead and tortured.
I’m here after seeing the film Colonia starring Emma Watson this was deeply horrific to watch but as the late Eli Wiesel has stated... We must bear witness, this is just pure evil.💔
These revelations are so awful, almost unbelievable but they so much need bringing to public attention. Thank you, Al Jazeera
I have just seen the film "The Colony" which is a true story of what went on here. That man should have been executed slowly.
An intense and sad chapter. A well done and informative documentary.
I just watched colonia which brought me here. I have children. I couldn’t imagine. That man at 2:20 crying 😢 I can see the young inner child in him, all of the pain and sadness. This just kills my heart. And I’m a person that can’t do anything about it. Can’t change it. Can’t rewind time for him and all of the unfortunate others 😢 so sad
I can only imagine, the atrocities these poor ppl went thru..
El documental hace énfasis en los atropellos a la dignidad humana de los colonos de Colonia Dignidad. Eso está muy bien. Pero hay otros temas de tanta importancia como esa que hay que resaltar: En Chile, el ministro en visita que lleva la causa de Colonia Dignidad, ha dicho que no pondrá a disposición de la comunidad las 40mil fichas donde Schaefer y sus cercanos colaboradores anotaron durante décadas hasta los más mínimos detalles de la vida cotidiana de la colonia. Esto, para no poner en peligro la seguridad del Estado de Chile". Se trataría de situaciones comprometedoras como la producción y tráfico de armas y drogas, personalidades chilenas y alemanas vinculadas a estas y oras actividades, políticos de ambos países que colaboraron con Schaefer, destino de los detenidos desaparecidos en la Colonia, lavado de inmensas sumas de dinero, orgías sexuales que comprometen a los políticos que dificultaron la captura de Schaefer en Chile. Sin duda, hay más temas de relieve internacional y que pueden estar gravitando hasta el día de hoy.
Omg qué horrible. Sabemos muy poco sobre lo que en realidad pasó ahí y sigue pasando muchos años después :(
Maite González es chile que se puede esperar se cren superiores y siempre alaban alos europeos2
@@petersmith9254 para nada.
Ojalá que digan los nombres y que los injuicen antes de que mueran cometieron muchas barbaridades! Hay que aplicar justicia y hacerlos pasar vergüenza que muchos de ellos son considerados de las altas esferas de Chile, que la sociedad sepa con que clase de gente comparten ! que la Élite de la Alta sociedad tiene gente con poco moral y que pertenece a otro círculo el de la carcel donde deberían estar y todas esas familias los hijos verán al pueblo mal siendo que sus padres son una basura, no dignidad, no moral y son peores de los que están en la cárcel algunos se fueron al extranjero, pero aquellos que están mezclados en la sociedad, deben salir de ella y llevarlos a los tribunales!
@Starseedspirit el fascismo vasco? hahaha yia que wea
Sounds like a cult
He was evil personified 😡
Pinochet & Kissinger - WOW! 💥
Just WOW! 💥
Thanks Al Jazeera - you should do more on this subject of Nazi's in Chile, seriously! 💥
He used Christianity for his perversions. And because of he and so many other wolves, in sheeps' clothing, how difficult it is to spread the love of the Gospel. So sad for the victims, and so sad for all of us, who are left confused about God's hope for humanity.
Each of us is to seek to know God personally. Whenever we put our trust on men, we will be disappointed. It can be done. I found God that way, when I was alone and desperate.
I completely agree! And these people had to be more skeptical. It's better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man.
Horribly, I pray for all these people that God give them Justice and peace.
Amen
Let’s start by saying the reporter did a superb work. This was a subject that always intrigued many, but the secrecy was hard to overcome. I hope all the victims are compensated accordingly sooner than later.
How can parents betray their own children? They are suppose to protect and shelter them from monsters like that demon, yet they brought their children to the Demons and Monsters. I pray for the victims of such atrocities that they can find peace in their hearts🙏🏻
My mom betrayed me
@@marthaperdew I am sorry to know, I will pray 🙏 for healing for you.
Winfried is an amazing person. Intellectually - law, Spanish, modern life - after such terrible abuse. I wish him peace as time will allow. You can see the pain.
Joe Rogan and Tim Kennedy brough me here
Joe "woah" rogan
Same
Kennedy stole harry coopers work
That generation of Germans was messed up.
We have this happening right now in 2021, at a little place called Gloriavale in the South Island of New Zealand. People have been trying to escape for years but the control over these people is just the same as in this documentary.
How come no one reports about this? If it is true it should be stopped immediately!!! Please share more information about where exactly, who is behind it… in general any information!
Gloriavale in the South Island of New Zealand 🇳🇿? Why hasn’t the authorities been informed of this going on?
What a wicked evil world it is
@@carolinecollett956 There is some terrible people in this world - but I think in situations like this, where God is used as an excuse for what they do, that makes it so much worse I feel
@@cherylcarr5690 Their loneliness and sense of belonging is being used
I would never entrust a monster like Paul Schaffer to babysit my children, not even if my life depends on it.
living through all of this and then becoming a lawyer to bring justice. Full respect. This are the people you should look up to. Well done sir!
Thank you for sharing this story
One feels terrible for Winfried (and all the others). How difficult it must be to forgive your parents after they failed you so terribly…
great documentary ....never knew such monsters walked on this planet earth
Monster? He saved his country.
Bams9 somebody didn't watch the video being commented on lol
Tim Khul - Your comment would only make sense if you made your opinions about the man from this single video - which would be silly. Viola - your comment.
Bams9 you keep talking about the video thinking it's about Pinochet.
Tim Khul - See: my reply to your comment on the other thread.
Victims rarely feel justice. There is no correcting such wrongs. Most often legal systems serve to protect the rights of the abusers, instead of the victims.
I don't know what's scarier, the fact that this is something that happened not so long ago or the fact that this isn't talked and taught about more...
What we don't learn from, we will repeat...
This is one of the better videos on this subject, great job everyone.