Argentinian here… Most of the immigration here, like 85%, is Spanish and Italian (pre and post wars). My family came here before 1920, from different parts of Spain, like it happened in the US and many countries across the continent. That said, it’s true many nazis came here to hide after the war, some more hidden than others but most were not in Buenos Aires because they could be easily exposed. This happened also in Chile, Paraguay and Brazil. Why this happened? Probably contacts with the governments and even today South America has almost zero immigration control, nazi or not. Another less known fact is that Argentina has one of the biggest Jewish communities. You can Google it 😊
Yes, absolutely. In the second census (1895), 25% of the population was immigrants, mainly Spanish and Italian, but from other parts of Europe as well. Argentina is a large country with a lot of different landscapes, weather, etc. and back then it was promising. Also immigrants were not looking for a perfect place, just a place to raise their families with better conditions than the ones they had in Europe at the time
Yes, you are right. I only had Cfb (Temperate oceanic) in mind, which is indeed quite small. But there is also a lot bigger area covered by Cfa (Humid subtropical). And both together are indeed more than twice as large as Germany.
I dated an “Argentinian” girl in college called Julia Göring. She told me that unlike most families with Nazi related last names, hers decided to keep theirs per her grandmother’s insistence.
"Mexicans came from the indian people, Brazilians came from the jungle, but we, the Argentinians came from the boats, and were boats that came from there, Europe. And that’s how we built our society."
Alberto Fernandez, former president of Argentina
For more context, he said that quoting a singer (i think an argentinian one) 💀
We can make a single ray of light hit a wall and go through two or more windows at the same time, then interfere with itself. No magic, just don’t look too closely at the windows or it stops working.
We can also make two perpendicular polarizers stop blocking all light by adding more polarizers in between them. Also not magic, but the brightening is not linear, don’t ask why.
Argentinia wasn’t forcibly denazified after the war and was sympathetic to fascism and so a lot of Nazis and fascists fled there to avoid prison or the rope. Mengele lived in buenos Aries until the 90s.
Compare this to francoist spain which always knew it had to walk a tight line because so long as they were ostensibly more on the side of the Allies than the axis they could get away with shit like having their white terror and various other fascist governances. Combine that understanding with a large border with France and axis officers felt it was unsafe to flee to for good reason.
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