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| • | San Bernardino is a city in Paraguay, located on the shores of Lake Ypacarai in the Cordillera Department. It is a popular holiday resort for people from Asunción, both Alfredo Stroessner and former Nicaraguan president Anastasio Somoza have had lakehouse there.
The town contains a museum, a rathaus, a bierstube and a cemetery that contains the grave of Los Paraguayos singer Luis Alberto del Paraná.
The city was founded in 1881 by German immigrants who named the town New Bavaria. More Germans came from Tanganyika and the Sudetenland after the First World War, though the town was renamed after General Bernardino Caballero, president of Paraguay 1880 - 1886.
The Lake Hotel in San Bernardino was where the German nationalist Dr. Bernard Föster spent the last 6 weeks of his life. before committing suicide on on 3rd June 1889 by taking an overdose of strychnine. Inspired by a writing of Richard Wagner's, and his own strong anti-semitism, he set out to found a German settlement in Paraguay with his fiancée Elizabeth Nietzsche (sister of the philosopher) and some german families. There efforts, at a site called Nueva Germania, failed dismally causing Föster to leave for San Bernardino.
Föster was buried in the town's cemetery. As Nazism became increasingly popular amongst Paraguay's German community in the 1930's Föster became something of a hero. In 1934 Adolf Hitler ordered a small memorial to take place at his graveside, with German soil sent over to sprikle over the grave.
Cities in Paraguay
Source: [wikipedia: san bernardino, paraguay]
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