Chile: Grim allure of Nazi relics

[Judi Lynn]

Chile: Grim allure of Nazi relics
12:00 PM Friday Apr 11, 2014

Call it the Kim Dotcom moment. The public relations woman must be sensing the mild unease, mixed with morbid fascination, that's overcome our group.
We've reached a darkened corner of the Colchagua Museum, in the Chilean town of Santa Cruz, and found a collection of Nazi memorabilia.

Spanning several display cabinets, it features everything from uniforms and revolvers to jewellery and flags.
There's even a swastika-embossed camera and one of the uniforms bears chilling skull and crossbone badges that do a pretty good job of summing up Nazism.

Given that many German war criminals found refuge in Latin America following World War II, I can't help but wonder if that's how all this paraphernalia found its way to Chile and into the country's largest private museum, located in the heart of the Colchagua Valley wine region, about two hours' drive south of Santiago.

More:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/travel/news/article.cfm?c_id=7&objectid=11233771&ref=rss

[Adsos Letter]

1. Skull and Crossbones badges?

That's SS stuff.