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Part Two: Rafael Trujillo: The Most Brutal Dictator of the Americas

Behind the Bastards

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The Problems With the Dominican Republic Colony

Most of the younger Jewish people who could get out of Germany already have. The first crops that they tried to work to grow doesn't work. So Dorset imports a bunch of Jewish Palestinians who have been living on kibbutzes and has them help set up farms, meat processing plants and dairies. And this actually takes off. With these kibbutzum in, they build a thriving community. I think there's never more than about 500 people who live in it at a time,. But something like 10,000, something like that, like 1500 might like there is still a Jewish population in Sosua.

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