Nazi Farm Part 1
True Weird Stuff
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4.9 • 655 Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2025
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Today's True Weird Stuff - Nazi Farm Part 1
Paul Schäfer was a Nazi who, after World War II, would go on to become a minister. When Schäfer was accused of abusing two young boys at his orphanage, he fled to Chile and started a community called Colonia Dignidad. Though this 53-square-mile compound looked peaceful on the outside, Colonia Dignidad was a horrific nightmare. Violence, abuse, forced separation of families, and an alliance with a Chilean dictator were just a few of the ways Paul Schäfer maintained control over his Nazi cult with an iron fist.
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| 0:39.1 | right after the episode. It took a decade, but they caught him. The man known as permanent |
| 0:48.3 | uncle. On paper, the leader of a religious group, mostly farmers peacefully minding their own business |
| 0:55.5 | on a massive bucolic spread in the heart of Chile. That's how it looked to the outside world. |
| 1:01.9 | But the truth of the place was much darker. And the man they called permanent uncle was not |
| 1:09.0 | the kindly old patriarch he pretended to be. |
| 1:12.8 | Argentine authorities say that Paul Schaefer, 83, a former Luftwaffe medic, was captured |
| 1:17.9 | Thursday in a gated community outside Buenos Aires. He was convicted in absentia by a Chilean |
| 1:23.2 | court late last year of committing sodomy and pedophilia with 26 children. He also faces accusations |
| 1:29.6 | of human rights abuses and numerous charges of kidnapping, forced labor, fraud, and tax evasion in Chile. |
| 1:37.0 | Paul Schaefer was arrested on Thursday, March 10th, 2005. That was just 20 years ago. You were probably alive 20 years ago bopping along to the number |
| 1:47.8 | one song in America. Mariah Carey's We Belong Together, blissfully unaware that a tightly guarded |
| 1:56.2 | Nazi paramilitary compound masquerading as a religious commune was your neighbor to the south. |
| 2:04.4 | They called it Colonia Dignidad, settlement of dignity, an unlikely name for a place of horrors. |
| 2:12.1 | But once you know the real story, it all sounds just about Reich. |
| 2:22.0 | And they got a small beam of light against the mirror. |
| 2:24.4 | Really? |
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