Why Did So Many German Officers Flee to Argentina after WW2?

Why Did So Many German Officers Flee to Argentina?

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Wiesenthal, Simon. (1989). Justice not Vengeance. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0802112781

Sereny, Gitta (1983) [1977]. Into That Darkness: An Examination of Conscience. London: Picador. ISBN 9780394710358

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[chevster]

Never ask a man his salary.
A woman her age.
An Argentine his abuelito's SS rank.

[gustavotomasorsi]

Me, an Argentinian: Hey Grandpa, have you ever been in Germany?
My Grandpa: nein

[AlonsiniGil]

And not just the geography. It
was actually the climate. The majority settled in Bariloche, a place with all the German characteristics of the German and Austrian population that lived in the 19th century. The climate of the Andes and its landscapes were practically identical to those of the Swiss Alps.

[katiecoad]

The history of German-Argentinian relations goes back to before German unification. Prussia ( pre German state) trained Argentina on modern war tactics in the 1800s. Argentina even uses the picklhalb (German spiked helmet ) in ceremonial March

[cmd]

Because they heard there was an entire town for buenos airians.

[dad]

Germany:*loses*

German officers: *adios*

[racismisntanopinion]

same as Argentina, the US had a lot of interest to get german scientist to their country, also known as Operation Paperclip.

[carloscollomps]

My grandfather was a reputed doctor and also a military officer in Paraguay and friends with then president Stroessner (German descendant). The president asked him to receive and work (signing recipes in some cases) with this german doctors that were living here, and also with a doctor who was living in Argentina and wanted to come to Paraguay regularly to do some business and work. This doctor coming from Argentina was as my grandfather called him, "José" Menguele, or as the allied called him "The angel of death". They worked together for some time in the 50's, "José" was selling some medical products. For his collaboration, José "awarded" my grandfather with a couple medals he had, one is an Iron Cross and the other is a medal given to the spanish volunteers in Russia. I still have the latter, while the former, sadly was given by my grandfather to Stroessner as a birthday present. José later went to Brazil and never came back here.

[Gussyboy]

Imagine running into your old sergeant in Argentina while on vacation then you go down the road and find the captain as well

[SembrandoElKaos]

I am Argentine and my grandfather was German. I think now I understand everything.

[LesliemSeely]

The Old Marine says: There was already lot of Germans in Argentina from the results of the first world war who had blended in with locals and they owned all types of businesses and they helped and aided the second world war Germans. Peron had went to different schools and ect. in Germany, the German high command were his heros.

[diegoserrato]

My gf is from South America, is interested in World War II, and she also speaks a little German. Hmmm

[michaelrocks]

I don’t know why but when my Argentinian grandfather gets angry, he yells in German and gives a weird high-five that lingers.

[LastKing-pipt]

My grandfather was a German general who fled ... he died and let us all his stories and journals . He was Hitlers personal advisors

[caberfeigh]

I met a guy many years ago in Indonesia, he was from Uruguay, first name Manfred, blonde hair blue eyes. I found out later he was the nephew of Klaus Barbi “the butcher of Lyon”. Manfred’s father went to Uruguay from Germany at the end of WW2 and was a lecturer in a university there.

[vaderthelegit]

Wait, does that mean my argentinian grandpa isn't an electrician?

[Danilium]

The Minister of Agriculture of the Nazis was a German born in Argentina

[traderstuff]

My family were Jews who escaped the Holocaust, surprisingly, they all fled to Argentina, one of the only places who were allowing Jewish immigration. Imagine fleeing Nazis just to find more living around you after you fled.

[logeur]

Many german fleeing after the war ended up in Bolivia also.
Try Klaus Barbie who was
later captured and extradited to France. He changed his last name to Altmann. He lived in Bolivia over 30 years.

[dcfomin]

My father was Russian, my mom German, they met in Austria after WW2, wanted to come to the USA then but had to wait a long time, they wanted to get the hell away from Europe quickly so they went to Brazil, where I was born, now I am 71 years old and been living in Chicago since 1961, this report is quite true. Also, one of the main reasons why Germans went to Argentina was because the climate there is very similar to the climate in Germany, unlike other northern S. American countries as Brazil, which is mostly tropical.