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Part One: Alfredo Stroessner: The Luckiest Dictator

Behind the Bastards

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The Holocaust and the Nazis

Forster, his wife Elizabeth and 14 families from Saxony crossed the Atlantic in the dead of winter and reached Paraguay in the swelter of summer. The isolated community was soon infested with bugs burrowing into fingernails and toenails and laying eggs beneath the skin. Forster retreated to the Hotel de Lago in the town of San Bernardino in 1899 and committed suicide by shooting up with morphine and strict nine and nine in room 19.

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