Philipp Kandler is the coordinator of the “Colonia Dignidad: A Chilean-German Oral History-Archive” (cdoh.net) project at the Free University of Berlin. He wrote his doctoral thesis on the Argentine and Chilean dictatorships’ reaction to international criticism over human rights violations.

05.24.2022

• Daniel Kressel
• Philipp Kandler

The Chilean Right Made Colonia Dignidad Possible

Chileans have long known about Colonia Dignidad, a German colony in Chile depicted in the Netflix series A Sinister Sect whose settlers committed countless acts of pedophilia, murder, and torture. Less discussed: the Chilean right’s complicity in those crimes.