17-year-old Swedish girl Dagmar Hagelin lived in Buenos Aires when she was shot and kidnapped on January 27, 1977 by Alfredo Astiz, a member of task force 332 (GT332), based in the Navy Mechanics School (Spanish initials: ESMA - Escuela Mecánica de la Armada, a secret detention center, and extermination camp in the capital, Buenos Aires). She was carried to the ESMA, wounded but alive. At least three survivors of the ESMA saw Dagmar and talked to her in captivity. She was mentally sound and her physical condition was improving when she was finally killed by her captors in cold blood to prevent leaks about the atrocities in the ESMA. Dagmar was kidnapped by mistake, and her disappearance became an international problem to the Argentine dictatorship. Her body was never found.
17-year-old Swedish girl Dagmar Hagelin lived in Buenos Aires when she was shot and kidnapped on January 27, 1977 by Alfredo Astiz, a member of task force 332 (GT332), based in the Navy Mechanics School (Spanish initials: ESMA - Escuela Mecánica de la Armada, a secret detention center, and extermination camp in the capital, Buenos Aires). She was carried to the ESMA, wounded but alive. At least three survivors of the ESMA saw Dagmar and talked to her in captivity. She was mentally sound and her physical condition was improving when she was finally killed by her captors in cold blood to prevent leaks about the atrocities in the ESMA. Dagmar was kidnapped by mistake, and her disappearance became an international problem to the Argentine dictatorship. Her body was never found.
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