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

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

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

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.

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

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

Germany:*loses* German officers: adios

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Germans went to Argentina because it was closer to German military base in Antarctica. The same base US Navy tried to destroy at the end of 50s or 60s and they were defeated by "strange" objects according to the American General who was in charge of that operation.

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.

Never ask a man his job A woman her age And a Argentinian why their grandpa is German Edit: Zoey mama

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.

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