Colonia Dignidad 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 dict
Hotel Villa Baviera in February 2014
Protesters asking for justice in 2015
Families of disappeared people
The grave where the bodies of murdered detainees were buried and later exhumed from
Paul Schäfer Schneider was a German-Chilean Christian minister, convicted sexual offender, and the founder and leader of a sect and agricultural commune of 300 German immigrants called Colonia Dignida
Colonia Dignidad
…murder of dissidents during the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in the 1970s while under the leadership of German emigrant preacher Paul Schäfer. Colonia Dignidad has been described as a "state within a state". Schäfer and members of the colony were deeply religious and followed the teachings…
During the 1950s, Paul Schäfer became a follower of the teachings of William Branham (pictured in 1947).