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Part Two: Alfredo Stroessner: The Luckiest Dictator

Behind the Bastards

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The History of Nazism in Paraguay

There is debate over whether or not Hitler sent this plaque. The nation's first national police director named his son Adolfo and demanded police cadets wear swastikas on their uniforms. Paraguay, also speaking of bad decisions, sided with the Nazis in World War II initially.

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