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 ...

Photo by Norberto DUARTE / AFP Dozens of mainly German and Austrian settlers have flocked to the South American country of Paraguay ... bills itself as a "private colony." ...

German, Austrian and Swiss citizens have been making their way to one of the poorest parts of Paraguay to seek refuge in a 4,000-acre gated colony. The colony, known as El Paraíso Verde ...

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 ...

Nueva Germania, a district in Paraguay, was formed as a German ... Still extant in different form, the colony was so ultra-German that it was even rumored to have sheltered the notorious Nazi ...

Bormann arrived in Paraguay in 1956, Prokopchuk’s report says, and subsequently lived on the property of a man named Alban Krug in Hohenau, a German colony south of Asuncion. In 1959 ...

Schultheiss has said it was believed the couple could have hidden among anti-vaccine German colonies in Paraguay. “We are convinced that the girls and the couple are still in Paraguay,” said ...

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.

Deforestation in Indigenous territories is illegal in Paraguay ... such as Mennonite colonies, to settle and clear the land for agriculture. Burkhard Richard Schwarz, a German geographer ...