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Part Two: Alfredo Stroessner: The Luckiest Dictator

Behind the Bastards

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The History of Paraguay

After the war, this tiny landlocked nation seemed like an enticing new home to dozens of former SS men and other fascist war criminals. Paraguay already had a modest German speaking population based around Mennonite colonists. A lot of them settle with Mennonites. At least one Mennonite community adopts a pro-Nazi school curricula for its children as a result of this. It is worth noting that the Paraguay and Nazi party refuses to give up the ghost until 1946.

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