https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Germany in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Germany said Friday it would pay compensation of up to €10,000 each to victims of the former Nazi paedophile sect "Colonia Dignidad" in Chile. https://www.thelocal.de/20190517/germany-to-pay-chile-nazi-sect-survivors-compensation Fri, 17 May 2019 18:33:40 +0200 germany-to-pay-chile-nazi-sect-survivors-compensation A German court said Tuesday it could not enforce a Chilean prison sentence for a former member of a Nazi paedophile sect for complicity in child sex abuse. https://www.thelocal.de/20180925/german-court-says-it-wont-jail Tue, 25 Sep 2018 17:03:52 +0200 german-court-says-it-wont-jail 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 the 1960s. https://www.thelocal.de/20180425/german-delegation-visits-chile-over-nazi-pedophile-sect Wed, 25 Apr 2018 10:56:45 +0200 german-delegation-visits-chile-over-nazi-pedophile-sect A doctor who was convicted in Chile for complicity in child sex abuse at the Nazi-tied Colonia Dignidad commune may have to serve out his sentence in Germany. https://www.thelocal.de/20160608/nazi-sect-doctor-to-face-german-jail-over-paedophilia-charges-colonia-dignidad-chile Wed, 08 Jun 2016 13:13:05 +0200 nazi-sect-doctor-to-face-german-jail-over-paedophilia-charges-colonia-dignidad-chile Germany is declassifying its files on Colonia Dignidad, a sect in Chile run by a Nazi paedophile, Germany's foreign minister said Tuesday, admitting the diplomatic service's failure to stop the abuses. https://www.thelocal.de/20160427/germany-opens-files-on-nazi-paedophile-sect-in-chile Wed, 27 Apr 2016 10:22:35 +0200 germany-opens-files-on-nazi-paedophile-sect-in-chile An Alternative for Germany (AfD) spokeswoman shocked TV viewers on Sunday night when she suggested that Chancellor Angela Merkel should "go into exile to Chile or South America" for fear of violent reprisals for her refugee policy. https://www.thelocal.de/20160125/merkel-should-be-ready-to-flee-to-south-america Mon, 25 Jan 2016 11:43:42 +0100 merkel-should-be-ready-to-flee-to-south-america Chile's Supreme Court late on Monday sentenced four Germans and a Chilean to prison terms of between five and 11 years for abusing children at a former secretive enclave of German settlers. https://www.thelocal.de/20130129/47617 Tue, 29 Jan 2013 07:14:00 +0100 47617 The fledgling post-war German secret service hired and trained a Nazi wanted for more than 90,000 murders, contracting him to infiltrate Castro’s Cuba, according to newly released documents. https://www.thelocal.de/20110925/37807 Sun, 25 Sep 2011 13:29:00 +0200 37807 Chilean President Sebastian Pinera on Monday apologized after using a phrase during a recent visit to Germany that he said he was unaware was linked to its "dark" Nazi past. https://www.thelocal.de/20101026/30747 Tue, 26 Oct 2010 09:55:00 +0200 30747 Paul Schäfer, a former Nazi corporal, founder of a mysterious German enclave in southern Chile, and convicted child sex abuser, died on Saturday in a prison hospital. https://www.thelocal.de/20100425/26767 Sun, 25 Apr 2010 12:43:00 +0200 26767 German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle arrived in Chile on Sunday with a generator, medical supplies and other aid in a show of "solidarity" after the country's devastating earthquake. https://www.thelocal.de/20100308/25725 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:20:00 +0100 25725 A former Nazi corporal, who founded the notorious German-speaking enclave of Colonia Dignidad in Chile, has been hospitalized and is dangerously ill, police said Thursday. https://www.thelocal.de/20090703/20355 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:15:00 +0200 20355