Secrets of ex-Nazi's Chilean fiefdom

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By Becky Branford
BBC News

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 Schaefer is likely to face jail for the sexual abuse of young boys, for which he was convicted in absentia in November last year after fleeing Chile.

But Schaefer also faces charges of child sex abuse in Germany that go back to the late 1950s.
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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.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4340591.stm

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1. Pinochet connection: The Times

March 12, 2005
Times
Nazi child abuser who set up cult held after 8 years on run
From Tom Hennigan in São Paulo

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Schaefer is also wanted in connection with the torture and disappearance of opponents of General Augusto Pinochet during Chile’s “dirty war”.

He disappeared in 1997 after being charged by Chilean authorities with abusing 26 children at the compound of the sect he ruled. He was convicted in absentia last year. A total of 22 of his followers were also found guilty of covering up the abuse and obstructing justice.

A corporal and medical specialist in the German Army, Schaefer became a fundamentalist preacher after the war. Forced to flee accusations of child abuse in Germany, he relocated with his followers to Chile in 1961, where he founded Colonia Dignidad (Dignity Colony) 200 miles south of the capital Santiago.

Schaefer, who cultivated a god-like status among his followers, preached a harsh regime of work and discipline on the 55-square-mile compound as a way of leading his followers closer to the supreme being.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1521251,00.html