Today, Villa Baviera is a charming destination in the countryside of Chile. Tourists can enjoy the German architecture, feast upon European food, and wander the picturesque foothills nearby. But ...

During those years the settlement was known as Colonia Dignidad and housed a bizarre cult of postwar German emigres. The commune was led by Paul Schaefer, a Colonel Kurtz-like figure who waged ...

SANTIAGO, Chile –A German delegation was in Chile on Tuesday to learn more about the ongoing investigation into Colonia Dignidad, a notorious Nazi pedophile sect founded by German immigrants in ...

A German woman who worked as a doctor at a commune-like camp in Chile has been charged with torturing children. A Chilean judge said Gisela Seewald had confessed to giving electric shocks and ...

SANTIAGO, Chile – Victims of a secretive German colony in Chile hope that Germany's decision to declassify documents will help shine light on human rights abuses committed there. For three ...

BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors say they've dropped their investigation into possible accessory to murder charges against a man for a crime allegedly committed in a secretive German colony in ...

Based on true events, “Dignity,” a Chile-Germany co-production from co-creators Maria Elena Wood and Patricio Pereira, head writer-producer Andreas Gutzeit and director Julio Jorquera, has ...

Chilean police recently rescued a 78-year-old German tourist who became stranded in his car near the Olca volcano, close to the Bolivian border, according to local news reports and authorities.