Klaus Schnellenkamp

Klaus Schnellenkamp (born 24 December 1972) is a German Chilean author. Schnellenkamp escaped from Colonia Dignidad community to Germany in December 2005. His book, Geboren im Schatten der Angst; Ich überlebte die Colonia Dignidad. (Born in the shadow of fear; I survived Colonia Dignidad), details his escape and life during the Military dictatorship of Chile.[1]

Klaus Schnellenkamp
Born (1972-12-24) 24 December 1972
Colonia Dignidad, Chile
OccupationAuthor, entrepreneur
Known forEscape from Colonia Dignidad

Background

Schnellenkamp was born in Colonia Dignidad, Chile. His parents, Kurt Schnellenkamp Nelaimischkies (14 March 1927 – 26 November 2017), and Elisabeth Witthahn Krüger (31 May 1936 – 23 July 2009), were co-founders of Colonia Dignidad. In 1961, they followed the leader Paul Schäfer to Chile in order to establish and grow the colony. Kurt Schnellenkamp is identified as a bodyguard of Adolf Hitler in the documentary Hunting Hitler.

The parent's vast power led to the paradoxical enrolment of the son in the paramilitary sect school Colonia Dignidad where he first received premilitary drill, presided over by the ‘AAG’ (an unofficial nongovernmental alliance of reciprocity, in German ‘Außerstaatliche Allianz auf Gegenseitigkeit’, dissolved in 2000). Schnellenkamp attended a private elite school within Colonia Dignidad, sponsored by the ChilAlRotary, where he studied natural and social sciences, in cooperation with the alliance known as AAG (a German-Chilean spin-off of the HIAG, a lobby group and a denialist veterans' organisation founded by former high-ranking Waffen-SS personnel in West Germany). This, in combination with his secretly written poems and ballads, led to repeated punishment and social isolation within the community.[2]

References
  1. "Two Germans sentenced in Chile for kidnappings under Pinochet dictatorship | DW | 20.10.2015". DW.COM. Retrieved 2019-09-06.
  2. "Insight: German sect victims seek escape from Chilean nightmare past". Reuters. 2012-05-09. Retrieved 2019-09-06.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.