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In the words of a Boston Globe editorial dated February 14, 1983:

Gehlen, Skorzeny […] could count on such loyalist operatives as Josef Mengele in Paraguay, on Adolf Eichmann and Hans Ulrich Rudel in Argentina; on Walter Rauff in Chile; and on Klaus Barbie in Bolivia.

Rauff, who is charged with sending 97,000 Jews to their death, has served as a revered adviser to the fascist dictatorship imposed on Chile by Augusto Pinochet after the overthrow of Salvador Allende, and was instrumental in setting up the infamous Chilean secret police agency known as DINA.

(Incredibly, Henry Kissinger, despite himself being a Jewish refugee from the German Reich, may have sent Rauff from the State Department to advise the DINA.)

Quoting Ruth Ben-Ghiat’s Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present (ugh), page 215:

The culture of DINA, created in June 1974 as a secret police agency, encouraged such personal transformations. As Mussolini had done with Bocchini, Pinochet met daily with DINA head Contreras, who hired military, police, and civilians who took orders well but also thrived on transgression. Neo-Nazis who lived in Chile’s large German community understood this mix of law and order and lawlessness, and the longstanding relationship of the Chilean and German militaries helped with recruiting. Former SS official and gassing expert Walter Rauff became a DINA adviser. Paul Schäfer’s German settlement Colonia Dignidad became a DINA torture center and an important gathering place for neo-Nazis.

Ingrid Olderock [NSFL], Ayress’s “German” torturer, came from this milieu. Born in Chile to German immigrants, the carabinera was Latin America’s first female parachutist and a proud Nazi who admired Auschwitz-Birkenau guard Irma Grese. She drew on her talents as a prizewinning dog trainer when she headed DINA’s female agent division. “I am an adventurer,” she told a Chilean magazine, and in the mid-1970s she experimented with her dog in the junta’s torture rooms.

(Emphasis added. Although this information is nicely condensed here, I’m still really embarrassed to cite this source given how obnoxiously liberal it is in other respects. Thankfully, this information is not especially obscure either; you can refer to something less embarrassing if you must.)

President Salvador Allende was interested in seeing Walter Rauff face justice, but the Supreme Court of Chile refused to let him, and ‘Rauff went on living unmolested as a businessman in Chile, first in Punta Arenas in the southernmost province of Chile and later in Santiago itself. He remained in permanent secret contact with associations of former SS men, including Colonel Rudel’s ‘Kameradenwerk’.

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