Nazi spies planned bombings in Chile, archives reveal

[Judi Lynn]

Documents show Chilean supporters of the Third Reich received paramilitary training and sent information to Germany during the second world war

Reuters in Santiago
Thursday 22 June 2017 19.06 EDT


Chilean police have released archive documents relating to investigations during the second world war that uncovered how Nazi supporters in the country supplyed information to the Third Reich and planned to bomb mines in Chile.

Young members of families of German descent underwent paramilitary training in southern Chile, while Nazi supporters in the country routinely sent information to Germany about the routes of Allied merchant vessels, the documents showed.

The discovery comes the same week that a cache of Nazi artefacts was found hidden behind a bookcase in Buenos Aires, the Argentinian capital.

There was significant support within Chile and Argentina for the Axis powers during the second world war. After the cessation of hostilities, many leading Nazi officials fled Europe to hide out in South America.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/23/nazi-spies-planned-bombings-in-chile-archives-reveal

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[sandensea]

1. Shades of 'Colonia Dignidad' - and the Nazi-trained Pinochet himself.

While Nazi activities in Argentina have gotten a lot more publicity, there was quite a lot of Nazi activity in Brazil and Chile - before, during, and after the war.

Check out 'The Colony' (filmed in Argentina, but set in Chile c. 1973) if you haven't yet had a chance, Judi. Intense stuff.

[Judi Lynn]

2. It was intense, wasn't it? I have a feeling the flock of Germans there were even more unpleasant

than the film could portray easily.

All those people murdered, and it had to be sheer hell for the ones who continued to live there, day by day, with all the malignant suspicion, rigidity, sadism, brutality, and what can be said to mourn the psychological destruction of the poor children growing up in that madhouse?

I thought the filmmakers did a superior job with such a horrendous subject.

Glad to be reminded to think it over again, for a moment.

Well well worth the time and emotional investment watching it.

Sad knowing it describes a real place, and real environment in Chile.