Talk:Colonia Dignidad

message: The spanish version has a wealth of photos. I dont know how to copy them across please see https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_Baviera
Any help appreciated. I can put the descriptions if someone copies the pictures.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.46.26.73 (talk) 04:41, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
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message: This article needs references. They can be extracted from the spanish version or found in the bibliography at the foot of the page. Any help appreciated in this long task.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.46.26.73 (talk) 04:47, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: references

message: The further down you get on this entry, the more it smells like BS. Supreme Moolah of Iran 05:18, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text:  Anybody knows that outside of Chile Pinochet has had lots of "destructive advertisements". There are several reasons for this (starting with the CIA and several news sources such as CNN). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mtad (talk • contribs) 03:29, 15 June 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: What makes Paul Schäfer an "ex-Nazi"? He was forced to join the armed forces in Germany to work as a paramedic, a nurse, for Gods sake! But of course, the word "Nazi" looks good on headlines. Many newspapers and internet pages, like Wikipedia, makes it sound like Schäfer was a nazi war criminal that fled to South America. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pursuit_of_Nazi_collaborators "As in Argentina, several former Nazis escaped to this country. After Augusto Pinochet's 1973 coup, some of them, such as Paul Schäfer, chief of the Colonia Dignidad cult..." He fled to Chile to avoid being arrested for child molestation. Nothing else. And here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_living_Nazis "Prominent ex-NSDAP Member" He wasn't an NSDAP member. Logically, every paramedic in the U.S. is a prominent republican! :-) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.114.121.143 (talk) 23:46, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Got to agree with this 100%. CIA and fraudster Simon Wiesental are by no means credible sources. He once persecute a Pole as a Nazi, because the man had to work in Germany as a boy during world war two. Mention the controversy surrounding the place, but be honest about the biased sources as well. 41.146.6.51 (talk) 14:24, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

text: I had a reaction similar to 213.114.121.143's above.  It seems akin to having the article on the Catholic Church read: "The current office-holder is ex-Nazi Pope Benedict XVI." —Morning star (talk) 06:16, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fictitious article 

message: surprised to read that this article is biased against Pinochet. I thought it was biased in favor of Pinochet. Pinochet and this part of Chile's history harshly divide Chilean society. With reasons. But, others parts of the world have a less passionate look at it.  Many informations, since Pinochet arrest in 1998 in London, have been given, including by the CIA (the most reliable of all unreliable sources, or the most unreliable of reliable sources?).  This article has to be actualized. After Paul Schäfer arrest in march 2005, chilean authorities have taken administrative control of the place in august 2005 (this can be easily verified in mainstream media). No doubt they will find lots, lots more than what is said here, with a bit too much caution.
:Why does this not mention anything about the former Nazi members' involvements?  This seems like it would be a very big deal.
::What makes you think that everything related to nazis must be a big deal? Nazis were "evil" only on Europe. The nazis living in southamerica behave accordingly. Sure, they are still biggots, but they don't go spreading propaganda or murdering jews, even those who did back in the day. Therefore, for articles regarding civilian life, having been a nazi or not in Chile is completely irrelevant, moreso to this article.
::--Korosuke 20:38, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  biased against Pinochet??? 

message: i just wanted to point out that, while i'm sure it's a lovely book, "History of the Nazi Involvement With the Occult" sounds incredibly suspect, especially as it is the only thing in the reference section. --dan 01:18, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  reference 

message: to list this under above mentioned cat is simply wrong. It is a "colony" in the old latin meaning of the word. A settlement. It never was part of Germany. I´ll remove the cat.--Tresckow 04:31, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  cat :former German colonies 

message: The article is terribly biased, from the relation with Pinochet (which is pretty much irrelevant since most of the nation was supporting him) and the nazi title... ¿Is it relevant? They were sexist but not racist. And the part with finding a tank? I live in Chile, very near the Villa and I had NEVER heard about that. I checked the source but it talks about suspected biological hazards, not weapons. I was going to correct these mistakes, but what's the point? Internet is flooded with fabricate evidence anyway. Also, the good parts are not mentioned. Before the child abuse issue the population was very happy with the social work done by the germans, who gave free education and medicine to the locals. Finally, a german friend of mine said that the Villa is actually part of a cult that was banned in Germany decades ago. Anyone has information about this?
:It was not banned, but Schäfer hat a court history of molesting children, forced sex with minors etc since the 1950s. Obviously, people didn't look too kindly on such a person opening up a secretive cult in their neighborhood. So they were ostracized actually.
:Schäfer has just received 3 more years in the slammer. See here.
:There was an article detailing events at the Colonia in Spiegel magazine, back when they were still doing respectable journalism (1980s methinks), giving a lot of eyewitness reports.
:Also, dignidad is "dignity, no? Arguably, in the full name of the organization it is not very well translatable, but "Colony [of] Dignity" is probably how the name was understood locally. The irony is of course rather poignant.
:The reluctance of Chileans to stir up the sleeping dogs of the past may be understandable, but it is actually not very consequential here and can be largely left to the Chileans discretion. The Colonia received some support from Germany - not on an official basis, but it was a well-known part of the German ex-pat community and of course they had benefactors back in their native country. But then, some folks left the Colonia and started to talk about what they had seen; it raised quite a stink over here I remember (I was barely a teen then, but I can remember the debate; it was quite present in the media for some months, and it led to the Colonia being dropped like a hot potato after Pinochet was gone. What this means is that a lot of good material is available, but it's in German. The de: community might be of help here. The books of Gemballa seem to be pretty much authoritative.
:BTW Schäfer's activities have very little if anything to do with him having been a card-carrying Nazi (if he ever was; IONO). The Colonia episode was much later; if Nazism had anything to do with it, he would have left Germany in 1945 and not in the 1960s. If anything, he was a fascist; he had the opportunity to make the Colonia a mainbase for South American antisemites but he didn't; those guys were always welcome, but not as antisemites specifically but just as one faction among many in the Alianza Nacionalista de Repúblicas Americanas which occasionally used the Colonia as a kind of "conference center". 
:And as a last remark - a lot of leading Colonia personnel have given full confessions. The allegations, in short, are correct: torture, murder, sexual abuse, imprisonment, you name it. This place made Waco look like a holiday retreat. Dysmorodrepanis (talk) 00:30, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, you know this, and I know this, but apart from sources, how does the reader know this? Are we simply saying, "Just trust us, we know about this?" Cheers. Leprof 7272 (talk) 22:22, 21 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Added NPOV flag 

message: Officials found a tank at the colony? Are there any references? Which tank did the police find? A main battle tank, a tracked armoured fighting vehicle,...? 93.196.63.164 (talk)  —Preceding comment was added at 06:40, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: A false claim, like most accounts of this colony.Royalcourtier (talk) 04:45, 19 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tank? 

message: There is a documentary from 2006 with interviews with ex-settlers, amnesty international, and many others. It would be useful to include the information there 72.208.186.17 (talk) 21:02, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Colonia Dignidad - Nazi Sect in the land of Pinochet 

message: The article claims Villa Baviera/Colonia Dignidad is "[l]ocated in an isolated area of central Chile, [lying] 35 km southeast of the city of Parral, on the north bank of the Perquilauquén River." While I've not been able to find another reference to its physical location, Google Maps places it quite differently. Whatever lies at the Google-mapped location looks more like the descriptions of VB/CD than anything I can find 35 km SE of Parral. Mazoola (talk) 04:28, 4 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Location? 

message: In the History section, which as a whole violates WP:VERIFY, the following sentences appeared until my edit today:
This material is just too badly written, and too utterly fantastic, to remain in the article, without solid, reliable published sources appearing as inline citations, to make clear that they are not fiction, or the thoughts of theorists that are not widely held. Please, only return this prose to the article, with 2 reliable published sources at each claim biological warfare, atomic bomb, sarin, etc. Then, please help in making the rest of the article encyclopedic, including the long history section, which remains, as of this timestamp, so much WP:OR. Cheers. Le Prof Leprof 7272 (talk) 22:20, 21 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Utterly fantastic sentences in an unsourced section

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message: From the text: "....and also had allies in the army and the Chilean far leftist socialists, who would warn them in advance when the police were preparing a site visit." ... There is no reference. Why on earth would any part of the socialist left have cooperated with Colonia Dignidad. I never ever read such things, and i have read a lot about Colonia Dignidad.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.192.81.218 (talk) 10:34, 30 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  That can´t be true 

message: It defies logic that the German intelligence service would co-operate with an obscure religious cult in South America to manufacture weapons. Even if this was remotely likely, why would the manufacturing be hidden even within the cult. And what does "This subject was proactively hidden, because of the problems experienced at the time associated with Argentina." even mean? Is there any source for this claim, other than one clearly deluded journalist?Royalcourtier (talk) 04:42, 19 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  DBS involvement 

message: This article should be entitled, "Colonia Dignidad".  Per WP:AT, the title of an article  If the content of the article is about one thing, and the title is something else, then there is a mismatch.  That is the case here: there is a mismatch.  All of the content of the article, save two sentences at the end, is about the infamous Colonia Dignidad complex used for torture in the 50s and 60s and which housed a sect led by Paul Schäfer.  The title must match this content.
It does not matter what the building is called now, or who is there now.  This is not an article about a particular building at a particular geographic location that has served multiple purposes, like, say, the One Times Square article about a famous New York City building that housed the New York Times, the Lehmann Brothers and other tenants and is notable enough as the most famous address in a major world city that it rates its own article.
The fact that Colonia Dignidad and Villa Baviera occupied the same building, does not make them the same thing.  Colonia Dignidad is like Lehmann Brothers, in the sense that both are highly notable, and both deserve their own article, even though neither one exists now. Perhaps Villa Baviera is notable and deserves an article, but if so, you couldn't tell from this article, which says almost nothing about it at all other than saying it's a tourist trap for people who want to visit the site of a former torture location.  That is to say, even in the current incarnation of the building, Villa Baviera appears to be notable merely for sharing the geographic location and building of the former Colonia Dignidad.
What seems abundantly clear, is that this article—even the last two sentences which are in a section named "Villa Baviera"—is entirely and exclusively about the former Colonia Dignidad. The title must match the content of the article.  Therefore, it must be renamed to "Colonia Dignidad".  To call it anything else is a violation of WP:AT. Mathglot (talk) 07:23, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disputed title 

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 
The result of the move request was: moved as requested per the discussion below. Dekimasuよ! 07:29, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Villa Baviera →  – The entire article from beginning to end is about Colonia Dignidad—the 1950s and 60s Chilean torture complex and sect led by Paul Schäfer.  Per WP:AT, the "title of an article indicates what the article is about and distinguishes it from other articles." The current title does not match the article content, and a rename is required. Full details at Talk:Villa Baviera#Disputed title. Mathglot (talk) 07:53, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

text: The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.
=== Follow-up adjustment to the Lead ===
Following implementation of the move, I've adjusted the lead to reflect the new title, and moved the material about Villa Baviera, the old title, to the last paragraph. Also removed a bunch of cruft (hidden text, overly-long descriptions that belong better in the body, if anywhere), and generally tried to smooth the segues.  It's better than it was, but the last two paragraphs have duplicate content and need to be merged, and the long, middle paragraph needs a rewrite. Mathglot (talk) 05:50, 22 December 2018 (UTC)

text: , can you have a look, and either comment here if you prefer, or just go for it and fix up the article as you see fit.  There's still a lot of stuff crying out for improvement, but hopefully we have a base now upon which to build. Mathglot (talk) 05:53, 22 December 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Rather busy IRL and fighting a battle with uncertain connectivity in rural Australia, but I'll try! Andrewa (talk) 10:43, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 19 November 2018 

message: Following implementation of the move, I've adjusted the lead to reflect the new title, and moved the material about Villa Baviera, the old title, to the last paragraph. Also removed a bunch of cruft (hidden text, overly-long descriptions that belong better in the body, if anywhere), and generally tried to smooth the segues.  It's better than it was, but the last two paragraphs have duplicate content and need to be merged, and the long, middle paragraph needs a rewrite. Mathglot (talk) 05:50, 22 December 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: , can you have a look, and either comment here if you prefer, or just go for it and fix up the article as you see fit.  There's still a lot of stuff crying out for improvement, but hopefully we have a base now upon which to build. Mathglot (talk) 05:53, 22 December 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Rather busy IRL and fighting a battle with uncertain connectivity in rural Australia, but I'll try! Andrewa (talk) 10:43, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Follow-up adjustment to the Lead 

message: In October 2021, Netflix released the original documentary series "A Sinister Sect: Colonia Dignidad". Lots of archival footage, and first-person accounts from people who were there and knew Schafer. See a review. Mathglot (talk) 08:35, 9 October 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: It might be a very good source, actually, as it's far-better researched than most of what I see in this article, which seems to lean heavily on tabloid-fodder and conspiracy theories. The truth about Colonia Dignidad is shocking enough without having to spin some kind of Boys from Brazil fiction around it. I think this article could use a ruthless edit from stronger sources, really. Looking around, there actually are scholoarly sources about this topic, but largely in German and Spanish, and often not on the internet. Editors who rely on 'convenience' sourcing might not be happy with that, but that's the reality. Peter G Werner (talk) 22:23, 21 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Netflix series: October 2021