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Nazis and Nazi Sympathizers in Latin America after 1945

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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Aside from the prominent perpetrators such as Adolf Eichmann, Josef Mengele or Klaus Barbie, there were numerous other cases of Nazis and Nazi sympathizers from Germany and Austria who ended up in Latin America after 1945. Their life trajectories, professional activities, and contacts to local elites in their new homes have hardly been subject to systematic research to date. Their new lives in Latin America, their careers e.g. as diplomats, secret service agents or scientists are therefore a main focus of this volume. The biographies of these people and their networks are woven into the larger political, social, and scientific contexts of postwar Europe and Latin America, especially in the early Cold War period."...its most notable achievement is shedding light on lesser known figures: scientists, university professors, government officials, diplomats, spies, arms dealers, businessmen, and even amateur Nazi hunters in South America." Ernesto Bohoslavsky, Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, April 2025

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Utgivningsdatum2024-05-09
Mått155 x 235 x 25 mm
Vikt630 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieJewish Latin America
Antal sidor296
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004699298

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Linda Erker, Ph.D. (2018), University of Vienna, is Assistant Professor at the Department of Contemporary History. She has taught and published on the history of universities under fascisms; persecution and global migration of scholars in the 20th century and the history of National Socialism and its aftermath.Raanan Rein, Ph.D. (1991), Tel Aviv University, is the Elías Sourasky Professor of Latin American and Spanish History. Former Vice President of this university, Rein is a member of Argentina's National Academy of History and author of numerous books.

List of Figures1 IntroductionRaanan Rein and Linda ErkerPart 1: Politics and Narratives2 From the Blue Book to the CEANA Report and Back: Narratives of Argentina’s Complicity with the Third Reich and Nazi FugitivesRaanan Rein3 The Munitions King Fritz Mandl: How an Austrian Emigrant of Jewish Origin Was Turned into a NaziUrsula PrutschPart 2:German and Austrian Continuities4 The Survival of Nazi Diplomatic Structures in Post-World War II Latin AmericaChristian Cwik5 Avoiding “Everything that Separates”: the West German Embassy and the Nazi Exiles in ArgentinaDaniel Stahl6 A Menacing Past: Spies with a National Socialist Background on Mission for West Germany in Latin AmericaHolger M. MedingPart 3: A New Start in the New Continent7 A Veil of Silence: the Life and Networks of Walther Rauff in ChileGustavo Guzmán8 National Socialist Propagandists on the Río de la Plata: Wilfred Von Oven and Johann Von Leers as Members of Right-Wing Extremism Networks after 1945Martin Finkenberger9 Hans Fischböck: the Late Escape of a Nazi War Criminal to ArgentinaJutta Fuchshuber and Andreas SchrabauerPart 4: Scientists as Mercenaries10 Warfare Research and the Two Careers of Hans-Joachim SchumacherJason Lemberg11 Armin Dadieu: How the Physical Chemist Went from “Austria’s Gravedigger” to Rocket Scientist in Perón’s “New Argentina”Linda ErkerPart 5: Jewish Pursuit of Nazis and Collaborators12 “Via Área”/“Por correo Aéreo”: Correspondence with Jews and Jewish Communities in South America in the Simon Wiesenthal ArchiveKinga Frojimovics and Marianne Windsperger13 Final RemarksPhilippe SandsIndex

“Reconstructing clandestine and morally reprehensible networks is typically a daunting task for historians, yet Nazis and Nazi Sympathizers in Latin America after 1945 sets a remarkable example of how to accomplish this through a serious, empirically grounded, multi-scale approach that dispels the History Channel-inspired myths about attempts to establish a “Fourth Reich” in southern Argentina.”- Ernesto Bohoslavsky, Mondes Américains, Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France