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Paul Schäfer Schneider (4 December 1921 – 24 April 2010) [1] was a German-Chilean Christian minister, Nazi, convicted sex offender, and the founder and leader of a sect and agricultural commune of 300 German immigrants called Colonia Dignidad (Dignity Colony) (later renamed Villa Baviera) located in Parral in southern Chile, about 340 km (210 miles) south of Santiago from 1961 to 2005.
Colonia Dignidad ('Dignity Colony') was an isolated colony established in post-World War II Chile by emigrant Germans which became notorious for the internment, torture, and murder of dissidents during the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in the 1970s while under the leadership of German emigrant preacher Paul Schäfer. [2]
Paul Schäfer - Former head of Chile-based Colonia Dignidad, was convicted of sexually abusing 25 children. [20] Keith Raniere - The founder of NXIVM, a multi-level marketing company and cult based near Albany, New York. Raniere was convicted of racketeering on the charges of sex trafficking, sexual exploitation of a child, attempted sex ...
The film presents a dramatized look at events surrounding Paul Schaefer, a former Nazi soldier who fled to rural Chile after WWII. There, he established the German-speaking Colonia Dignida.
Paul Schafer, Paul Schäfer, Paul Schaefer, Paul Shafer or Paul Shaffer may refer to: Paul Schafer, inventor of the Schafer automation system; Paul Schäfer, a German sect leader; Paul Schäfer (politician), a German politician; Paul Schaefer (ice hockey), an ice hockey player; Paul W. Shafer, an American politician; Paul Shaffer, a Canadian ...
David Letterman's longtime bandleader, Paul Shaffer, got his start on TV as a member of SNL's house band, playing keyboards from the show's start until 1980. Shaffer regularly popped up in ...
Brooke Walker grew up in an Arizona church community. Families, side by side, in communion with God and each other. But the church, she says, was actually a cult. Walker spent her formative years ...
The film is set against the backdrop of the 1973 Chilean military coup and the Colonia Dignidad, a notorious cult in the South of Chile, led by German lay preacher Paul Schäfer. Colonia is an international co-production of companies in the UK, Germany, Luxembourg, and France.