Pisagua internment camp
| Pisagua internment camp | |
|---|---|
| Internment camp used many times in Chilean history | |
 The Pisagua Memorial in 2007 | |
  Location of Pisagua internment camp within Chile | |
| Coordinates | 19°35′48″S 70°12′44″W / 19.59667°S 70.21222°W |
| Location | Pisagua |
| Built by | Chilean government |
| Operated by | Chilean government |
| Operational | 1927-1931 1939-1947 1973-1974 |
| Number of inmates | 2500 people (during the 1973-1974 biennium) |
| Killed | 30 people (during the 1973-1974 biennium) |
The Pisagua internment camp (Spanish: Campamento de Prisioneros de Pisagua) was a concentration camp in Pisagua, Chile.
History
An isolated location in northern
From 1943 to 1945, Pisagua became the site of wartime
Pinochet's dictatorship to present
When General Pinochet himself seized power in September 1973, the site again became a political detention center.
It's been alleged that one of the torturers of this camp was Walter Rauff, a mid-ranking SS commander in Nazi Germany and the man responsible for creating the mobile gassing vans. He escaped to Ecuador after the war, and later found refuge in Chile with Germans willing to hide him. Under Pinochet's military dictatorship, Rauff may have served as an advisor to the Chilean secret police, DINA. Its believed he also had ties with the Nazi loyalist Colonia Dignidad which had footholds throughout South America.
In the 1990s, the
Identified persons from mass grave (June 6, 1990)
See also
- The Pisagua Court Case
Footnotes
- ^ Spooner 2011, p. 58
- ^ "El Hallazgo de la Fosa". Memoria Viva. Archived from the original on 16 June 2002. Retrieved 4 July 2012.(in Spanish)
- ^ a b c "Plano de la fosa común en el cementerio de Pisagua". Memoria Viva. Archived from the original on 5 June 2010. Retrieved 10 May 2013.(in Spanish)
References
- Frazier, Lessie Jo (2007). Salt in the Sand: Memory, Violence, and the Nation-State in Chile, 1890 to the Present. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-822-34003-4.
- Spooner, Mary Helen (2011). The General's Slow Retreat: Chile After Pinochet. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-25613-2.)
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