Villa Baviera

Villa Baviera (English: Bavaria Village) is the current organization occupying the location of the infamous and disgraced Colonia Dignidad (English: Dignity Colony), in Parral Commune, Linares Province,^[3] in the Maule Region of central Chile.^{[not verified in body]} Located in an isolated area, Colonia Dignidad was ~35 km southeast of the city of Parral, on the north bank of the Perquilauquén River.^{[not verified in body]} Colonia Dignidad was founded by German émigrés in the mid-1950s,^{[not verified in body]}. Its most notorious leader, Paul Schäfer, arrived in the colony in 1961.^[4] The full name of the colony from the 1950s was Sociedad Benefactora y Educacional Dignidad (English: Dignity Charitable and Educational Society).^{[not verified in body]} At its largest, Colonia Dignidad was home to some three hundred German and Chilean residents, and covered 137 square kilometers (53 sq mi).^[5] The main legal economic activity of the colony was agriculture;^{[not verified in body]} at various periods it also was home to a school, a hospital, two airstrips, a restaurant, and a power station.^{[not verified in body]}

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