Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor who did experiments on concentration-camp prisoners, fled to Paraguay after the war and lived under his own name in Hohenau, a German farming colony near the borders ...

when an international search for Auschwitz physician Josef Mengele brought unwanted attention to the German-speaking Mennonite colony of Fernheim in Paraguay’s remote Gran Chaco, did that taboo ...

Even if they would have wanted to keep the German blood so-called “clean,” at a certain point the settlers would have had to marry their own nephews. It’s an issue that is a point of discussion in the ...

Roughly 30,000 German nationals live in Paraguay. The country is also home to some 150,000 people of German descent, for example in the Mennonite colonies in Chaco and in eastern Paraguay.

On the banks of the Parana river in the south of Paraguay lies a group of towns known as Colonias Unidas - or United Colonies. These German settlements were first established more than 100 years ...