Why Did So Many Nazis Choose Argentina to Flee to After WWII?

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  @geodkyt · 2 years ago

  As the joke goes, "Never ask a woman her age, a man his salary, or an Argentine what his abuelo's SS rank was."

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  @vonneely1977 · 2 years ago

  Adolf: &quot;Take all this stolen treasure, load it onto your u-boats and set up a second front over in South America.&quot;<br>Captains: &quot;Yeah, we&apos;ll get right on that and totally not just spend it all living in luxury.&quot;

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  @Kaltagstar96 · 2 years ago

  I&apos;d honestly love to see a video on why there was no Italian War Crimes trial like there was for Germany and Japan at the end of the war despite the fact that Mussolini&apos;s crew were certainly no saints.

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• SI

  @sil-80nick · 2 years ago

  To those unaware of American Civil War history, this is exactly what Brazil did with American’s from the southern states. Brazil brought in an estimated 20,000 Americans with the intent of gaining agricultural knowledge, primarily around the cotton industry. Americans loyal to the south took their slaves, and i &nbsp;exchange for cheap land, worked with Brazil, biding time for a possible second uprising of the south.

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  @Rosemary2.0 · 2 years ago

  My grandfather worked on a farm in Nebraska and he mentioned about a group of ex-Nazi solders being held not too far from the farm. He said they were friendly, mainly because they said Americans don&apos;t torture POWs and they were grateful for that. I thought he was pulling our legs with that story...

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• RE

  @repeat_defender · 2 years ago

  Wow... Andrew Lloyd Webber never mentioned all that in Evita...

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• EP

  @eph2vv89only1way · 2 years ago

  A good topic to cover would be the Mennonites that Hitler shipped to Paraguay.<br><br>Mennonites wouldn&apos;t fight in the war but at the same time, these people Hitler shipped out were Ayrians, so he didn&apos;t want to kill them. So he put them on a ship and abandoned them in Paraguay and possibly other countries as well. They were just dumped in the wilderness with no possessions other than the clothes on their back and abandoned. If they lived, fine, and if they died, fine. Many died but others found &nbsp;Mennonite communities that banded together and helped each other survive.<br><br>My best friend was born in one of those Mennonite communities Paraguay to parents who were two of the people dumped there by Hitler.

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• JI

  @jimgraham6722 · 2 years ago

  Argentina got a not very successful fighter plane out of it. The US got a moon landing.

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  @KonradAdenauerJr · 2 years ago

  After WW2, Argentina was a favorite destination not just for Nazis on the run, but also for many other Europeans (called Displaced Persons, or DPs) who could not or would not return to their countries of origin. &nbsp;The country has a long historical tradition of welcoming European immigration, and many DPs had skills which Argentina felt it needed (doctors, lawyers, etc.).

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• LU

  @Luerim12 · 2 years ago

  30ish years ago, I met a local college student in attending UK. His accent was weird, sounded almost Dutch, (knew he wasn&apos;t Dutch because he asked questions without asking if it was ok to ask questions) looked aryan AF, but spoke fluent Spanish. I asked, he told. His grandfather or great grandfather was a pre-war german immigrant to Argentina and his maternal ancestor was actually indigenous (Wichi IIRC). &nbsp;Before he ended up working in a Mexican restaurant he worked with a crew with a bunch of much browner Central and South American green card holders. The owner was an arsehole who decided to get slaveowner rhetoricy without realizing this guy spoke spanish. When he related to his co-workers WTF he just heard, they all agreed to quit and they walked out as a group. He was truly a bit of a legend in that community.

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  @cocacola4blood365 · 2 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KltczHu2tro&amp;t=23">0:23</a> &quot;All I want is peace.... peace...... peace....... 🎵A little piece of Poland, a little piece of France..........🎶&quot;

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  @Luannnelson547 · 2 years ago

  When my grandmother was angry with her brother (who lived with her) she would say “He’s as mean as Hirohito.” So this PR campaign didn’t work with her.

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