Colonia Dignidad: Chile's Nazi colony

[Magda Hassan]

There have been a few big funerals in Chile of Nazis. When Oscar Ruif(sp?) who was a leader of the Nazi party there died all political parties invited except communist party. Which was probably still illegal and underground in any case. All parties sent some one. For some of them it was like they were blackmailed to attend. Others were big supporters. But it was all in public with much seig heiling and goose stepping. Not shameful private affairs but open triumphant public affairs. Nazis were big there from the beginning of the 1930s. Even before the Nazi take over of Germany there was a Nazi Youth group in the large German community almost all of which were supporters if not mebers of the Nazi party. But resistance to it was also long standing. The communist party is oldest in the world and predates the Russian revolution and Bolshevik party. Dr Salvadore Allende, one day to be Chilean president, and other outraged members of congress wrote a letter to Adolph Hitler denouncing the persecution of the Jews and Kristallnacht.