Germany to pay commune victims

Germany will compensate victims of a notorious and abusive commune in southern Chile. GETTY IMAGES

Germany – This country will compensate up to €10,000 (£8,700; $11,000) to victims of a notorious and abusive commune in southern Chile.

Colonia Dignidad was founded by former Nazi soldier Paul Schäfer in 1961.

The commune ran as a secretive cult and dozens of children were sexually abused.

The decision to pay the victims was made by a government commission in Berlin.

It came a week after prosecutors dropped their investigation into a German doctor who worked at the commune.

A court in Chile found Hartmut Hopp guilty of complicity in child sex abuse committed by Schäfer, but he fled to Germany before he could be jailed. (BBC)

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