Actually a small correction, after the fall of Nazi Germany, Portugal with the treaty of england and after some ships and boats were bombed by the Germans in the portuguese arquipelagus Azores, Portugal contributed quite a bit to inprison nazis fleeing to Portugal, not known to the nazis, Portugal under Salazar's dictatorship DID allow jews and other minorities to flee and hide in the island of Madeira, this after the famous and courageous stunt of Aristides de Sousa Mendes the consul of Bordeaux to grant passports and safe passage between France to Portugal. Some mid-high ranking officers were caught and given to the their allies, England, others to France or kicked out of the country.
@@themastema1189 Thanks for sharing that. I just posted a comment pointing out the inclusion of Switzerland in the Nazi-territory at 2:48 which is also incorrect.
@@Crafty_Spirit Oh mate you're most welcome, a fun fact: Oskar Schindler helped hundreds if not a couple of thousand if my memory serves me right, however many but many many more including german officers, politicians like Albert Göring (the brother obviously), actors etc. helped as well, and as I said Aristitdes de Sousa Mendes helped several thousands to cross the border to Spain heading to Portugal, many, many jews and their children and children's chidren live in the Portuguese islands since then, technically Portugal in terms of warfare WAS neutral but helped more than most of the allies to save jews, well because Europe was under ocupation sure but yeah.
They ran, to cowardly to stand up for what they did. So they hid, they ran scared. Thank god they were bombed into total submissions. The Germans today are a great people, they are tolerant of others, and once again, on top of the world. They are now a giving charitable people. They were great, then went bad, and now, are great again. People can change... I think this is very fair??
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.
I’d watch her then fella she’d definitely need to have a close inspection !!! Just be careful if she asks to see your papers and tells you to have a shower 🚿😩☝️🤣
@@theephantom_psyko3313 I don't know. But nany people would. What's your problem with my comment? Judging by you're response, you sound like you might be one yourself.
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.
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
I don't recall any time seeing pickhalb in Argentina. Never, never. About the relationship between argentina and Germany, Peron had fascist ideas and he were a military man. But all the other things are nonsense
@desquicio if your from Argentina and your GF emigrated in the 30s, he may have went there to escape the Nazi's who were just coming into power or to build a better life. The German economy was horrible during those times. Many germans left the country to find a better life elsewhere.
The difference is the American government brought in scientists like Werner von Braun and the Argentinian government brought in criminals like Josef Mengele
Paperclip was only for hi rank scientist only latinoamerica received millions of Germans and Italians even turks and Japanese visit latinoamerica and you will see on people's futures latinoamerica is way more multipot than usability amigo
Al fin, nos hacen quedar como si todos tuviéramos una esvastica en la cocina. EEUU recibió y refugió a un montón de científicos alemanes solo por su valor, Argentina fue uno de los posibles destinos, pero los Nazis se repartieron por toda Sudamerica y el resto del mundo
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.
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.
Argentina, Uruguay, and Chile have populations that are mostly Italian, Spanish, or French descent. Germans (mainly Catholics) immigrated to Latin America in large numbers as soon as they were independent from Spain.
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.
I thought careful were I would take refuge in case of a catradyphy ! Africa ? No. Asia ? No. Maybe Australia but definitely south America. As a city burned Aires I am a fan of river plate anyway As a country. Uruguay
Because we wanted them for their knowledge, to develop industries. Just as the americans started NASA with a nazi, and the soviets captured a lot of scientists for their objectives.
the only reason for US being the strongest army and the best science department is that nazi still live inside US, they successfully hid in US and not in Argentina, and the nazi do their world expansion under a new flag. Nobody noticed, hehehe :)
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.
you know why nazis need to play safe in south america? Because Brazil. Folks often forgot that Brazil fought alongside the allies in europe, and yes the same way Argentina has a lot of germans, so does the south of Brazil (in fact, even more germans...), but since Brazil wasn't one of their allies, thats the reason why nazis even in a place who accept them as they are, still need to play safe... They can't get the luxury of piss off the giant on the other side of the boarder, behaving like idiots... This is something that often happens in south america, is a good place to hide, but not to start build revolutions or trying to dominate the world plans.
Werner VonBraun (spelling?) Most famous German Scientist helped the USA with Fat Man and Little Boy. Operation Paper Clip only insured safe passage for him and the like.
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.
I am an Argentine painter . My great grandfather was a austrian-german. On may 2 1945 he escaped to Argentina and settled there for almost 30 years . He died in Argentina at 1975
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.
If she grew up in Argentina, that would be her country and she should have those values. It must be difficult to understand why your ancestor thought so differently, I can understand why she wanted to explore that.
@@AZ-rg3rf You do realize most of the greatest philosophers after the Renaissance were Germans. Kant, Marx, Engels, Hegel, Habarmass. Most of the world you see today, minus the Nazis are also influenced by German philosophers.
So what? You are not responsible for the deeds of your parents, Churchill wanted and encouraged the Second World War more than Hitler, because Germany was beating England in manufacturing. The Germans of the Nazi period gave us many inventions
@@tomjeffersonwasright2288 Nah, Rudolf Diesel developed the diesel engine between 1893 and 1897 when Hitler was still a small boy, and Germany has played a consistent role in steel technology since the Middle Ages, developing the blast furnace,. Krupps is 400 years old, and Thyssen was founded in the 1860s before Germany unified. The German steel industry started to dominate in the late 19th century. If anything WW2 put a brake on r&d in the German & Austrian steel industries as they had to dedicate themselves to arms production, however since then both countries have developed numerous processes such as electro-slag remelting (Austria) and are leaders in modern steel technology.
It is true that you said in the beginning. My Soviet friend once told me story how how his grandpa fought Nazi and their collaborators in West Ukraine for many years after war ended. There were plenty of Nazis hiding in Europe as well.
And it was physically as far away as they could get from Europe. Argentina was the perfect combination for them: a Nazi-friendly gov't and geographical isolation.
Because if you tell this crap enough it becomes true. Germany did not want slaughtered like the millions of Russian slavic people were by communist jews.
@@edwardji5570 Serbia? Seriously? Some people who probably werent even linked to the government shot a man from empire that has been threatening Balkans for several years, even threatening a war. How is that Serbian fault?
@Gabriel Not really. It is a woman born in latin america, regardless of racial profile. There are hundreds of millions of latin american women who are criollas (meaning directly descended from Spanish colonizers who never mixed), mulatas, blacks and multi-ethnic or multi-racial with up to 5 genetic components. Thus, a Latin American woman can be of any race, including black and white. We are latin americans because we speak a latin derived language, not because we have a specific racial profile (that does not exist).
When I first visited Argentina, coming from the Caribbean, my first question was, “Where are the Latinos?” Descendants of Germans and Italians were everywhere.
"Latino" is a geographical term, not racial or ethnic. If born in Argentina, you are Hispanic and Latino, regardless of ancestry. If born in Brazil, you are Latino but not Hispanic. And if born in Surinam, you are neither Hispanic nor Latino.
Love your videos. Thank you for putting this together, I always wondered why the Germans **specifically** chose Argentina and not elsewhere, and this video answered that PERFECTLY!
Brazil's south states (close to Argentina) also have strong ties with germans to the point some cities were actually built to look like german towns. Gramado is one of them.
Good call out. People should be questioning all those Brazilian models with German or Italian last names trying to pass off as pure Brazilians when they should say they're German/Italian-Brazilian.
It's not just Brazil and Argentina. Central Texas has German communities that date back to before the Mexican War and the Civil War. In the Hill Country, towns exist with names like Fredericksburg (after Frederick the Great), New Braunfels, Luckenbach, Henkhaus, Breslau, Weimar, Hochheim and Shiner. Restaurants serve traditional German food, multiple radio stations broadcast in German, Lutheran churches date back to the 1830's. There is a strong cultural bond with German states as they existed prior to the establishment of the German nation and long before the Nazis.
the 2 biggest immigrations in argentina where during the world wars. They say 3/4 of immigrants where from spain and 1/4 where from italy, and not too many from other places. So yeah, even if we speak spanish, the italian accent lives within our culture
This video seems to ignore that Brazil sided with the Allies early during the war. And that Mexico chose a path similar to the U.S. prior to their active involvement in the war. Mexico allowed their fighter pilots to serve with the Aztec Eagle Squadron in the Pacific Theater. Which was much like the Eagle Squadron of U.S. pilots in the air battle over Britain.
@@elharvey5032 why would anyone take boars into their country plus i don't think they could survive the cold tempratures of sweden they are suited to the temprate grasslands of savanah
@Vidoslav Yugoslavius He was a medic saving lives sir. It wasn't Germany who declared war, but Britain and France who declared war first, remember! I would say they are the true 'war criminals' for starting something which Germany never wanted and pleaded to end!
@@martinxy1291 It's a complex subject but it all started with Peron's "National Socialist" (as in Nazi) policies. Nationalize industries and investments will decrease while government graft and corruption will rise. Inefficiencies will multiply almost exponentially, too. Think Cuba and Venezuela.
This isn't true. Canada, NZ, Australia, Switzerland were all wealthier than Argentina after WW2. Sweden may well have been too. Argentina has never had "the second highest standard of living in the world." though it was certainly in the top 10 before 1930.
Not Argentinian but I am Bolivian. My great grandma was German, and apparently fled because of the war. Heritage and mixing in South America is pretty interesting
Maybe because South America weren’t in the war so they could hide there easier. Also their leader was for sale. It wasn’t a bad choice as it worked out pretty well for a lot of them by all accounts.
@@JME1186 you say that but I think a whole lot of SA officers have grandchildren in South America doing very well for themselves 😂 this was way before the world became so open with the internet and even TV so it was very easy to lay low
As an ex South African what I do know is that the old South West Africa, today known as Namibia, was also an ally of the Germans. The plan was probably to use the region as a port if they were to win the war.
My Oma's husband was a Nazi officer, who was imprisoned during the war. Oma rode for hours on her bicycle each day to deliver food to him in his POW camp in Europe, food she bought from selling the family linen and silver. At the end of the war, they were told they could go to Argentina or Australia. They chose Australia because she said they'd never heard of Argentina. (Maybe this is because they were Hungarian, not German?) Oma and her husband divorced in Australia and I think she largely raised her three sons here on her own. Nazis would not have stood out in Australia post-war, as tens (hundreds?) of thousands of Europeans migrated here then. They provided much of the know-how and labour for one of Australia's biggest infrastructure projects - the Snowy Mountains hydroelectric scheme. Oma was not my blood relation as she was the grandma of my step brothers, but I often felt I was her favourite in our blended family in the 70s. She taught me to cook some of her traditional Hungarian recipes and I travelled with her in Germany in 1979, when she went back to visit her sister, who was trapped behind the Berlin Wall but allowed out a few weeks a year. Oma and her husband met Hitler and Mussolini at formal dinners, so I guess her husband was of some rank.
Kia ora, What an interesting story. She sounds very nice. I am sorry I can't feel anything for her husband. I can't even sense that she was selling family items that were not actually stolen. But never mind my history, thanks for your great and open comment.
@@johnmurdoch8534 amazing stories about Hitler urinating himself during speeches and declaring war on the Albert Hall, which preserved his left testicle. If your into Hitler theres a video of Frost interviewing one of his henchmen, that should frill you.
Imagine: Your an Argentinian, which is attending your grandfathers funeral, and you inherit a cool and badass uniform in black, that matches with a visor cap with a skull design in it.
why imagine? that stuff happens a lot here lol, when my grandfather died my mom got a fully wehrmacht soldier uniform, my uncle got the best (a pristine and still working luger with a bunch of medals) - Argentina is filled with escaped WW2 german veterans
If you find the migration of Germans to Argentina interesting, I suggest checking out "Hunting Hitler". Not for the main story line that Hilter may have made it out of Germany, but to see all the huge amounts of infrastructure that Germany had built in South America, among other places. It's insane!
@@robertmoffit1135 Argentina as they said, had a large German and Italian population, in Buenos Aires and many areas of Argentina indigenous or mestizos were basically nonexistent. Remember also that there view was not always about a white only country, but a white dominated country, like South Africa, the US and Argentina, and from those only Argentina would welcome them, so it was the best and only option.
@@cipmaster1 Many came to the US as well ie Operation Paperclip. Operation Paperclip was a secret United States intelligence program in which more than 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians were taken from the former Nazi Germany to the U.S. for government employment after the end of World War II in Europe, between 1945 and 1959. Conducted by the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency (JIOA), it was largely carried out by special agents of the U.S. Army's Counterintelligence Corps (CIC). Many of these personnel were former members, and some were former leaders of the Nazi Party.
My great-grandfather was an immigrant from Russia. He was a Volga-German and, with his brothers, came to the Americas fleeing as many others looking out a new life. My great-grandfather ended up in the south of the province of Buenos Aires. Meanwhile, his brothers went northwards (it could be the province of Entre Ríos or even Southern Brazil, where there's a great German influence in those areas. I might find a distant uncle, cousin or nephew, who knows?)
This only tells part of the story. Prior to the outbreak of the war, the Germans were sourcing aircraft and automotive parts made in the US by using Argentina as a proxy, to get around trade bans. There was a supply pipeline and relationship established long before the war. This also explains why the Germans launched their Antarctica expeditions from Argentina. They already had logistics bases there.
They hoped wrong. The yanksters brought the German engineers in US. The Nazi engineer Werner von Braun was made NASAs director for 41 years. He constructed the Apollo rockets . And prepared the so called moon landing. All what the yanksters have was made by German Nazi engineering and technics. Period. Cowboy cow shit eaters were too stupid for that.
They chose Argentina and Brazil because there were large German diasporas in those countries. Many Germans also left Germany in the 1950s and in the 1960s because they did not want to live in a country emasculated by its enemies. Many chose Spain.
The government and most people always supported the Nazi idea. Until today, it is more out of hatred of the United States and England, I clarify that it is not my opinion.
@@nadaninguno1054 Very simplistic my friend. In those years, nobody had a issue against The US....With Britain I Would say, yeah, a little concerning Farklank Islands or Malvinas Argentinas, and we may add all those shark loans the English used to make to Argentina's Elite Oligarch, so Argentina was perennely in debt.
ramiro martinez you are way off! The US was seen as the northern mirror of Argentina. Both rich countries made up of immigrants. There was no hatred for Great Britain. Many British citizens had immigrated to Argentina and some had married into the elite families of BsAs. The British immigrants had gone to construct and invest in the railways. And other infrastructure
Because 2 main factors All the countries surrounding the artic and Antarctica above and below the tropics of cancer and capricorn (meaning , temperate zones) are the regions that received the most European migration , most likely due to the climate . Also because most leaders in the southern cone were dictators and Nazi sympathizers Regions around the artic are 1) "Europe", Russia and Siberia 2) Canada, USA Regions around the Antartica 3) Southern Cone Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay , Southern Brazil 4) South Africa (remember Apartheid?) 5) Australia, New Zealand
@NonyaBusiness! Thats intresting story. Some Estonians who escaped before soviet union took over Estonia after Ww2 moved to south american countrys among others. What was her name
Josef Menguele, the angel of Death, unfortunatelly lived peacefully in Brazil with a false identity after having fleed from Argentina and Paraguai. People only found out that he was here in 1985, six years after his death (he had a heart atack while swimming in the beach).
He was constantly looking over his shoulder and lived in a state of paranoia.....especially after Eichmann was captured. Also he was very dismissive of Brazilians who he considered "sub human"
@@FuShengAlex good to know even though he should have faced judgement to do justice for those who suffered in his hands or lost lovely ones in his monstruous "experiments". About his feeling towards Brazilians; yeah, I always wondered why he was living in Brazil since it's one of the most mixed people on Earth. I understand that he just had to (and hated it). I really hope my people made him live in disgust during his time here. 😄
@@michaelbread5906 didn't now that but I believe it. Actually Japan don't get as blamed as deserved for what they did in WW-II. They did things that could make nazis look like Disney villains. Btw; I love Japan and their culture but I read a lot about their war crimes long time ago and it made me sick as I've never felted before. =/
You failed to mention that, at the time, Argentina had a high standard of living; It is a huge country inhabited by a 90% European-descent population, with very good infrastructure. An ideal place to blend in with the locals.
@NonyaBusiness! Then how do you explain why MOST fleeing nazis went to Argentina rather than Brazil or other SA nations.? As noted on this thread, there were many reasons for choosing Arg. over any other nations of the world. Modern conveniences surely had to be one of them. In fact, if you read up on this migration further, you'll note that MOST nazis weren't caught and lived happily ever after amongst the large German population already there.
@@gwolf1096 Yes, we know. In fact, "alto Paraguay" is a very sparsely populated region with a good climate and terrain, suitable for a large number of Europeans to settle in. They will eventually declare independence and call it "Neues Deutschland". Half your nation will be gone. Give it another 20 years for this to happen.
@@Repented008 No, not Africa. Argentina was, and still is, the ideal escape route for those who crave a tranquil and satisfying long life in the Pampas. I predict that in the next 20-30 years many Europeans, fleeing radical Islam in Deutschland will choose Paraguay, Uruguay, and southern Argentina as their new home. Believe it.!
Sometimes I wonder if any of my Italians great-grandparents had anything to do with the Nazis or Fascists or they were just poor people who decided to move out.
Not only Argentina, I am Italian born in Switzerland and currently living in it.I have family members that live in : USA in New York,Canada,Australia,New Zealand,and Japan.There are many more Italians living in foreign Countries than those currently living in Italy.They all immigratet to these Nations after the War because every thing was destroyed.
IcryToast7 Toastzylinder36 My paternal great-grandpa (The one who brought my family name into Argentina) came here right after World War II in 1945. So yeah, that pretty much explains it all.
@norman simpson German woman looking more like man .... Better go with czech woman or in general Eastern Europe..... Where woman will look like woman !
Not only German officers fled to Argentina. Collaborators of other nationalities as well. In 1994, two Dutch journalists identified a Dutch collaborator living happily in Bariloche. Denounced at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, the extradition of this criminal was sent to the Argentinian Government - which denied it, under the "pretense" that he was now an "exemplary" Argentinian citizen. This criminal was responsible for sending my mother and grandparents to concentration camps, back in 1943, from Amsterdam. His name is thoroughly mentioned in the process that his former boss (also collaborator) faced in 1945, right after the war. This process is kept in the National Archives in The Hague 😢
How many times must you repeat the same sentence in order to pass the 10 minutes mark and get that sweet ad revenue? For God's sake, this could've easily been a two and a half minutes video...
Honestly this, it felt like I was banging my head against the table when he lead me in the run-around about how the Argentinians had ties/liked the europeans, and then all this other irrelevant talking points to buy time.
Not all the Germans who left for Argentina were war criminals, or even members of the Nazi Party. The country was completely devastated, after the war. It was bombarded into rubble, partitioned, and occupied by several foreign powers including the Soviets. Adolph Galland, a former fighter pilot and Luftwaffe general took the ratline to Buenos Aires through Italy. He left Germany because he was prohibited from obtaining gainful employment sufficient to earn any reasonable standard of living. Galland immigrated to Argentina at the invitation of the well known German aircraft engineer, Kurt Tank, who designed the FW-190 and the Ta-152. He had lived through a devastating war of attrition on the losing side, Göring had attempted to have him executed for insubordination prior to the collapse, he was imprisoned by the Allies after the war and was threatened with arrest by over-eager war crimes investigators. Forced by these circumstances to work as a game warden and living off of wild game and foraged edibles. He accepted Tank’s invitation. Galland worked in Argentina as a military advisor for the Argentine Air Force and a test pilot for Kurt Tank who was helping to develop. When Peròn was deposed his presence in Argentina was more tenuous. He was invited back to Germany to take charge of the new West German Air Force but was eventually denied that opportunity because he had left the country without the permission of the occupying forces.
And sadly despite this, most of argentines now claim themselves as peronists. They don't even know how Peron agreed with nazism and fascism. They don't even know who Perón was. They don't even know what nazism and fascism were about.
They know what it is and they prefer it to communism. Please, tell us about the great economic successes in Cuba and Venezuela - oh, wait... those economies are both crap.
Kahlil Sykies Argentina was governed by fascism and Argentina was almost a world power back then as well Argentina only declared war on the axis not to be looked badly at by the allies. Some of the Germans who fled to Argentina where taken back and captured
@@lorenzogonzalezsalas4129 They wanted to be neutral. They were allies with both sides. The Germans, Italians. But also America, Britain, France. Which was an obvious conflict. As stated in the video. They never declared war to remain neutral. But the SS officers were hated, ridiculed, austrized and scorned by most people around the world. So what about Argentina, made so many of them feel so comfortable? Or at least made so many of them feel that it was the best place to run to? There had to have been social reasons.
Because that was the plan from before the start of the war. Everyone new there was a chance Germany could lose. Especially after Italy and North Africa.
I was born in Mexico and my ancestors arrived along with many refugees from the European wars mainly from Germany, Poland, Czech Republic. we still retain many Czech traditions
george bsuh they sure did. The Zionist movement put the NSDAP into power. A commemorative coin was created with the Star of David one side, and yep, swastika the other side. The state of Israel was created just after the war.
Argentina is a free to immigrate place. There where a lot of Jews and as the video says, Perón supported the nazi ideology. Jet Idk why you will only hear inside Argentina that Perón was actually paid to hide Hitler. And by my opinion and hearing it from a lot of people: Hitler didn't killed himself. He was at Salta or San Juan dancing in clubs (he liked our music?)
Ahh Argentina. I remember playing as them in Hearts of Iron IV and amassed a giant tank army, only to discover I forgot South America is littered with forests, and tanks get massive combat penalties in forest terrain. I learned something that day.
Not in the Philippines. The fault of the parents are also being blame on their children. Ask the Roman Catholic Church that put the blame of Marcos' to his children and even ask their children to ask forgiveness for whatever fault their parents did. The Church and the leftist communist fronts wanted the Marcos' children to beg forgiveness for what their parents did because that will also a sort of confirmation of the blames the church and the leftist ascribe to the late President Marcos.
Because latley people have been asking themseles why is it that the Argentinian national team does not have any black athletes. And people have come to the conclusion that Argentinans are racist because yes Indeed there are communities of black argentinian citizens marginated by its own government and history books don't tell what actually happened.
Three things you should never ask: A man about his income. A woman about her age. A German about that 'why grandpa lives in Argentina...' Another one: - Hey Daddy, I know what was a Grandpa in the army during WW2! - What? - He was an electrician, I saw the 'two lighnings' on his helmet! 😅
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Actually a small correction, after the fall of Nazi Germany, Portugal with the treaty of england and after some ships and boats were bombed by the Germans in the portuguese arquipelagus Azores, Portugal contributed quite a bit to inprison nazis fleeing to Portugal, not known to the nazis, Portugal under Salazar's dictatorship DID allow jews and other minorities to flee and hide in the island of Madeira, this after the famous and courageous stunt of Aristides de Sousa Mendes the consul of Bordeaux to grant passports and safe passage between France to Portugal. Some mid-high ranking officers were caught and given to the their allies, England, others to France or kicked out of the country.
Yo nazis kinda suck ngl
@@themastema1189 Thanks for sharing that. I just posted a comment pointing out the inclusion of Switzerland in the Nazi-territory at 2:48 which is also incorrect.
What proof or sources can you provide that the Catholic Church helped the nazis escape?
@@Crafty_Spirit Oh mate you're most welcome, a fun fact: Oskar Schindler helped hundreds if not a couple of thousand if my memory serves me right, however many but many many more including german officers, politicians like Albert Göring (the brother obviously), actors etc. helped as well, and as I said Aristitdes de Sousa Mendes helped several thousands to cross the border to Spain heading to Portugal, many, many jews and their children and children's chidren live in the Portuguese islands since then, technically Portugal in terms of warfare WAS neutral but helped more than most of the allies to save jews, well because Europe was under ocupation sure but yeah.
Because they heard there was an entire town for buenos airians.
Lol
they are called "bonaerenses" xd
Waiting for someone to not get it...
@@north7764 the misspelling of Aryan might confuse a few.
Jajaja
Never ask a man his salary.
A woman her age.
An Argentine his abuelito's SS rank.
I- damn
Gotta say ... you ... I like you ... you are funny
Hahhahahaha, that’s a good one
They ran, to cowardly to stand up for what they did. So they hid, they ran scared. Thank god they were bombed into total submissions. The Germans today are a great people, they are tolerant of others, and once again, on top of the world. They are now a giving charitable people. They were great, then went bad, and now, are great again. People can change... I think this is very fair??
@BurrowingBunny well, I do not know much about Germany today, to be honest with you.
Me, an Argentinian: Hey Grandpa, have you ever been in Germany?
My Grandpa: nein
boludito
[nervous sweat intensifies]
...nine times....?
@@deanpd3402 All Lives Matter
Lol
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.
It’s really worrying that any sane country would welcome child killing Nazis
I live in Ecuador now, heading to Patagonia next week
The geographic studies inclued climate themes
Plus the Germans fleeing the country because of possible war crimes !
That’s quite something, are you free Argentina?
I am Argentine and my grandfather was German. I think now I understand everything.
El apellido lo dice todo, igual hay bastantes alemanes del Volga
Exactly, I'm Argentine and my maternal grandfather was German
Do you want to immigrate to GERMANY
@@eliasquezada3001 *_maternal grandfather_*
@@themaxterz0169 What?
My gf is from South America, is interested in World War II, and she also speaks a little German. Hmmm
Probablemente ella es un racista en secreto.
I’d watch her then fella she’d definitely need to have a close inspection !!! Just be careful if she asks to see your papers and tells you to have a shower 🚿😩☝️🤣
@@kahlilsykies9139 who gives a shit
@@theephantom_psyko3313 I don't know. But nany people would. What's your problem with my comment? Judging by you're response, you sound like you might be one yourself.
@@kahlilsykies9139 Si 😂
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.
Trader Stuff Yeah it sucks, but the Nazis couldn’t really do anything against jews in Argentina since they were in hiding after all.
It must suck
Should of gone to Israel, cause all that trouble to get own state made then don’t go there ffs
Graham Hart Israel was very unstable in the beginning, that’s why so many jews choose to go to other places.
@@sbakst plus it wasn't a country yet
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
I have a 1906 Mauser Argentine (German rifle)
I don't recall any time seeing pickhalb in Argentina. Never, never. About the relationship between argentina and Germany, Peron had fascist ideas and he were a military man. But all the other things are nonsense
It was Chile that used the spiked helmet
Germany loses the war
SS Officers: *grande Dieguito Maradona papa*
Maradoña*
Shaquille Oatmeal quien te conoce papá?
Ni existía Maradona boludon
@@alejoroman6898 Es una broma pendejo gil. Tené gracia.
Translation plis
Germany:*loses*
German officers: *adios*
Chow!
Nein!
arabs:"yallah
Im not winning dad....
Underrated
Never ask a man his job
A woman her age
And a Argentinian why their grandpa is German
Edit: Zoey mama
Bro My grandpa was German, Joseph gette. Lol
@Desquicio grandpa was probably a nazi.
copied the top comment
@desquicio if your from Argentina and your GF emigrated in the 30s, he may have went there to escape the Nazi's who were just coming into power or to build a better life. The German economy was horrible during those times. Many germans left the country to find a better life elsewhere.
@@naveenquispe4358 the majority of Argentinians are from European ancestry (between a 85/90% of the population)
same as Argentina, the US had a lot of interest to get german scientist to their country, also known as Operation Paperclip.
The difference is the American government brought in scientists like Werner von Braun and the Argentinian government brought in criminals like Josef Mengele
Von Braun and his boys saved the US space program.
Paperclip was only for hi rank scientist only latinoamerica received millions of Germans and Italians even turks and Japanese visit latinoamerica and you will see on people's futures latinoamerica is way more multipot than usability amigo
Al fin, nos hacen quedar como si todos tuviéramos una esvastica en la cocina. EEUU recibió y refugió a un montón de científicos alemanes solo por su valor, Argentina fue uno de los posibles destinos, pero los Nazis se repartieron por toda Sudamerica y el resto del mundo
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.
Wow your story is really interesting, thanks for sharing!
@@Edis12121 more of a paragraph than a story
thank you for sharing
U sound younger mijo
How are things in Europe now?
I'm Argentine, and my girlfriend has blond hair, blue eyes, German descent and her surname is Reich, I think now I understand everything
Run dude
Yo still dating her ?
@@Rick16.7 Yep
@@juancruzafonso2681 good for you but be careful lol. Also, my dad is argentine and he is praying for Argentina to be glorious on economy
@@Rick16.7 That’s almost impossible, because of the politicians
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.
Wow. *Che Guevara stumbles*
No way
Argentina, Uruguay, and Chile have populations that are mostly Italian, Spanish, or French descent. Germans (mainly Catholics) immigrated to Latin America in large numbers as soon as they were independent from Spain.
@@sasquatchhunter86 Funny, Brazil still have a bigger white population than this countries in raw numbers...
@@efxnews4776 Brazil has a population 3x the size of those three countries combined too
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.
Peron never been to Germany....He went to Italy...
fuck yer marines...old and young
Lot of those Germans and Italians went over there in the late 1800's.
The Minister of Agriculture of the Nazis was a German born in Argentina
That’s interesting. I never knew that.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Walther_Darr%C3%A9
I thought careful were I would take refuge in case of a catradyphy ! Africa ? No. Asia ? No. Maybe Australia but definitely south America. As a city burned Aires
I am a fan of river plate anyway
As a country. Uruguay
From 1920 Germans are in Argentina. Chille Paraguay epicenter of Germans Patagonia
420 like I don't wanna ruin this.
I don’t know why but when my Argentinian grandfather gets angry, he yells in German and gives a weird high-five that lingers.
Lmao
LOL
LOL
Yooo im crying
He also runs in circles in goose steps...?
Because we wanted them for their knowledge, to develop industries.
Just as the americans started NASA with a nazi, and the soviets captured a lot of scientists for their objectives.
Bueno, veo que el plan no funcionó 😬.
This is true my grandfather worked for NASA and had some very interesting photos
Boring. How many times have we heard that over and over.
the only reason for US being the strongest army and the best science department is that nazi still live inside US, they successfully hid in US and not in Argentina, and the nazi do their world expansion under a new flag. Nobody noticed, hehehe :)
@@chrismontreuil2206 your life is boring.
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.
I just saw that his som Rolf visited him, in the 80s was disgusted by him but did not turn him in..
oh sh-t
Very interesting!
Josep murió ahogado luego de un calambre en una playa de Brasil y enterrado en una tumba sin lápida
Argentina has one of the largest jewish communities, imagine how many awkward some scenarios could have happened here
Were you do not find Jews?
@@johnbalasa711 Most Asian countries?
@@johnbalasa711 Istarl
esrail
you know why nazis need to play safe in south america?
Because Brazil. Folks often forgot that Brazil fought alongside the allies in europe, and yes the same way Argentina has a lot of germans, so does the south of Brazil (in fact, even more germans...), but since Brazil wasn't one of their allies, thats the reason why nazis even in a place who accept them as they are, still need to play safe...
They can't get the luxury of piss off the giant on the other side of the boarder, behaving like idiots...
This is something that often happens in south america, is a good place to hide, but not to start build revolutions or trying to dominate the world plans.
It's important to remember that the U.S also allowed some scientist and spies from Germany to come to the US to help them against the USSR.
Operation paperclip I believe thousands came here
@@jimlibor4363 That is likely, i mean, 30% of US citizens caim german heritage
Edit: claim*
Werner VonBraun (spelling?) Most famous German Scientist helped the USA with Fat Man and Little Boy. Operation Paper Clip only insured safe passage for him and the like.
Not allowed. They brought them by force. Nazi engineer Werner von Braun was made NASAs director for 41 years.
@@referty0692 Only those Germans migrated to America in the 18-19 centuries not from the Nazi Germany. Look up some 5-th grade history.
POW in Siberia or free in Argentina, easy choice :)
🇦🇷 Argentina 🇦🇷
Lol definitely
or trialed and executed
Adios.
Correct
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.
There is also a pretty big Japanese community in Argentina.
@@sergiodemoura990 he never said it was the biggest,you gotta learn to read
@@sergiodemoura990 most japanese came before ww2 to south america and yes most japanese came to brazil firsta and then some decided to go south
Peru. Hell peru even had a japanese pm
michael craig angentina take every body
@mera Who cares? I also didn't ask yours.
I was born in Argentina. Growing up in Buenos Aires, there was German neighbor who delighted in showing us kids his WWll military uniform.
Robert Cabrera Yikes! 😳
Was it a Wehrmacht or SS uniform and was he a officer or enlisted? Please let me know all information!!
Regarding the uniform I do not much recall details other than being well pressed. I was around 11 or 12 years old.
I believe it.
What color was the uniform?
I am an Argentine painter . My great grandfather was a austrian-german. On may 2 1945 he escaped to Argentina and settled there for almost 30 years . He died in Argentina at 1975
Hahaha lemme guess his spouse was eva braun??
@@nido.del.aguila2667 😂😂😂
@@nido.del.aguila2667 😂😂😂
@@nido.del.aguila2667 😂😂😂
@@nido.del.aguila2667 😂😂😂
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.
Wasn't Argentina where magneto caught those Nazis in X-Men first class? Lol
Yep in villa gesell (but it isn't in a mountain region villa gesell is on the coast)
Yep.
Yeah, but villa Gesell it isn't like the movie lmao
@@wiinteerrr Villa *Gesell*
@@mekaniklboltmb4880 shut up you imperialist bastard!
I'm from Argentina and I actually met the grandaughter of Eichmann on college. Yeah and she specialized on german philosophy, seriously
once a nazi, always a nazi.
If she grew up in Argentina, that would be her country and she should have those values. It must be difficult to understand why your ancestor thought so differently, I can understand why she wanted to explore that.
@@AZ-rg3rf What are you raving about?
@@AZ-rg3rf You do realize most of the greatest philosophers after the Renaissance were Germans. Kant, Marx, Engels, Hegel, Habarmass. Most of the world you see today, minus the Nazis are also influenced by German philosophers.
Can you imagine ?...the thoughts that went thru her head . Knowing who her grandfather was .
The most positive result of WW2 is that it spread German brewing expertise all across South America. Most countries there have excellent beer.
Now the problem i think im the decend of a nazi
So what? You are not responsible for the deeds of your parents,
Churchill wanted and encouraged the Second World War more than Hitler, because Germany was beating England in manufacturing. The Germans of the Nazi period gave us many inventions
@@tomjeffersonwasright2288 Yep, like fanta, crystal meth, volkswagen, and rocket science. Okay maybe crystal meth wasn't one of their best inventions.
Try the diesel engine, and modern steel technology.
@@tomjeffersonwasright2288 Nah, Rudolf Diesel developed the diesel engine between 1893 and 1897 when Hitler was still a small boy, and Germany has played a consistent role in steel technology since the Middle Ages, developing the blast furnace,. Krupps is 400 years old, and Thyssen was founded in the 1860s before Germany unified. The German steel industry started to dominate in the late 19th century. If anything WW2 put a brake on r&d in the German & Austrian steel industries as they had to dedicate themselves to arms production, however since then both countries have developed numerous processes such as electro-slag remelting (Austria) and are leaders in modern steel technology.
It is true that you said in the beginning.
My Soviet friend once told me story how how his grandpa fought Nazi and their collaborators in West Ukraine for many years after war ended.
There were plenty of Nazis hiding in Europe as well.
Wait, does that mean my argentinian grandpa isn't an electrician?
Hol' up
Hahaha good one
Uh oh
@@samsunguser3148 stinky....
Oh..
To save you couple of minutes they had friendly government in Argentina
Thanks it saved me 10 minutes.
*sorry for lowering your watch time *
And it was physically as far away as they could get from Europe. Argentina was the perfect combination for them: a Nazi-friendly gov't and geographical isolation.
@@AbbeyRoadkill1 True,far from Alies
@@mihailojovicevic5576 did Argentina adopt an anti semitic ideology like the nazis? Did the jews suffer any type of persecution there?
This video just feels like a constant repetition to get to 10 min..
Because if you tell this crap enough it becomes true. Germany did not want slaughtered like the millions of Russian slavic people were by communist jews.
Exactly! This sounds like a kid in English class trying to get his word count up on an essay.
@@darladrury76 Germany killed millions. I see you don't care about them.
Now that you pointed it out, it does feel repetitive.
@@edwardji5570 Serbia? Seriously? Some people who probably werent even linked to the government shot a man from empire that has been threatening Balkans for several years, even threatening a war. How is that Serbian fault?
Great video.
Quito-Ecuador 🇪🇨
Very interesting. I always wondered why so many Germans ended up in South America, particularly Argentina.
Lies again? Hand UFC Title Smart Bundesliga
@@NazriB UFC what?!
Escape..
Escape prosecution, trial and execution!!!
At that time Argentina was rich as the USA
Argentinian kid : irritates neighbour
Neighbour : starts yelling in German
Argentinian kid : 😨😨😨😨😨😨
😦😦😦😨😨😨😰😰😰😱😱😱
naaah
Hahahahaha
hast du den tod gewalt!!!!!
Yelling? Or just casually talking?
Can anyone tell the difference?
I'm going to go with hot Latinas and sunny beaches.
We have the first, not the second (.
@@CarlosCondat que lastima
@Bela T.T Latina
@Gabriel Not really. It is a woman born in latin america, regardless of racial profile. There are hundreds of millions of latin american women who are criollas (meaning directly descended from Spanish colonizers who never mixed), mulatas, blacks and multi-ethnic or multi-racial with up to 5 genetic components. Thus, a Latin American woman can be of any race, including black and white. We are latin americans because we speak a latin derived language, not because we have a specific racial profile (that does not exist).
Then you must go to Brazil or Venezuela
My grandfather was a German general who fled ... he died and let us all his stories and journals . He was Hitlers personal advisors
What was his name?
You must be kidding.
@@badda_boom8017 Göring
Gobbels
Himler
Argentinian kid: "Hey, grandpa. Why do you always act so cold and nervous with my jewish friend?"
Grandpa: "It's... complicated"
"It's more of a personal thing"
no
Don’t
Maybe he’s of German descent or maybe he’s of Arab descent those are the 2 reasons that make sense
'' because i'm indoctrinated with propaganda about him''
If you want the short version of this video I will tell you.
It's the only place they could go
Many of them went to the United States as well. (With the USA Government's arms wide open).🤷♂️
@@jeffreyaudino7503 👏👏👏
Central America also
Yup. Basically just said the same things over and over again.
many went to Bariloche which has a very similar weather and landscape as Germany
When I first visited Argentina, coming from the Caribbean, my first question was, “Where are the Latinos?” Descendants of Germans and Italians were everywhere.
Hi
"Latino" is a geographical term, not racial or ethnic. If born in Argentina, you are Hispanic and Latino, regardless of ancestry. If born in Brazil, you are Latino but not Hispanic. And if born in Surinam, you are neither Hispanic nor Latino.
Latinos? Are not latinos descendants of germans, italians, spanish? Why do people consider latinos a separate entity?
Latino is the commonly used word in spoken English in the U.S. Do you also grimace when we call ourselves Americans, instead of North Americans?
Argentinians are loud and extremely social which are very latino traits. Latino doesn't mean brown lol.
Love your videos.
Thank you for putting this together, I always wondered why the Germans **specifically** chose Argentina and not elsewhere, and this video answered that PERFECTLY!
Brazil's south states (close to Argentina) also have strong ties with germans to the point some cities were actually built to look like german towns. Gramado is one of them.
Good call out. People should be questioning all those Brazilian models with German or Italian last names trying to pass off as pure Brazilians when they should say they're German/Italian-Brazilian.
@@jjn6914 Giselle Bundchen
Oktoberfestival of Blumenau in, Santa Catarina, Brazil.
It is considered the biggest German beer festival in south Americas
It's not just Brazil and Argentina. Central Texas has German communities that date back to before the Mexican War and the Civil War. In the Hill Country, towns exist with names like Fredericksburg (after Frederick the Great), New Braunfels, Luckenbach, Henkhaus, Breslau, Weimar, Hochheim and Shiner. Restaurants serve traditional German food, multiple radio stations broadcast in German, Lutheran churches date back to the 1830's. There is a strong cultural bond with German states as they existed prior to the establishment of the German nation and long before the Nazis.
@@jjn6914 There is no such thing as... pure. They are Brazillians final stop
Good job using the correct Canada flag for the time!
Wait, What?
WindowsXP Gamer Dominion of Canada.
Not so much for identifying where Paraguay is
And the Only True Chinese Flag...
@Ulrich Esser A big word salad.
Is that why Argentinians sound like Italians when speaking Spanish 😂
yes.
There are several accents within Argentina. So not all argentinians sound like italians
Martincito Maybe I know but honestly most do, especially in Buenos Aires area😂Argentinians use A LOT of slang too
the 2 biggest immigrations in argentina where during the world wars. They say 3/4 of immigrants where from spain and 1/4 where from italy, and not too many from other places. So yeah, even if we speak spanish, the italian accent lives within our culture
@@nelsondendomo6687 Che boludo andá a cantarle a gardel
This video seems to ignore that Brazil sided with the Allies early during the war.
And that Mexico chose a path similar to the U.S. prior to their active involvement in the war. Mexico allowed their fighter pilots to serve with the Aztec Eagle Squadron in the Pacific Theater. Which was much like the Eagle Squadron of U.S. pilots in the air battle over Britain.
"Hey Grandpa, will you take me on holiday to Germany?"
"You're on your own kid"
😂😂
😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂
😂 😂😂😂😂
😅😅😅😅😅😅
Random Argentinian helped an old man crossed the road
Old man: Danke Schoen
How dqre u butcher my beautifull langaugr
Both of you are wrong lol it’s Dankeschön*
Dank Shawn?
@@linajurgensen4698 You are technically wrong too, it's two separate words, but I say technically because I know how Germans love to combine words.
Your map of German controlled areas of Europe at the end of WW2 does not include Norway.
And courland
@@and3609 and a lot else....this video is a joke
@@buninparadise9476 absolute crap. Correct
@@buninparadise9476 yes a joke mixing a lot of different layouts. amateour.
@@henrikhilskov maybe try to spell Amateur correctly before calling him one
Great video!
Me: hey mom, where was grandpa and grandma born?
My mom: Deutschland
What
@@ninlog "Deutschland" means "germany" in german
@@younggod4251 yup they have it in their passport as Deutschlan
@@ninlog Are you dumb
Grandpa and grandpa, 🤔🤔🤔
As we say in Sweden: "Welcome refugees"
Ahh yes strange how you guys haven't accepted White South African Boars
@@elharvey5032 why would anyone take boars into their country plus i don't think they could survive the cold tempratures of sweden they are suited to the temprate grasslands of savanah
@@jeegupopli1871 And yet Sweden can take Syrians, Iraqis, and other Arabs? Something tells me you hate it when Europeans help each other out
Accept me
@@Mohazz88 Yes they can, but why not Europe? European countries have been wanting Immigrants the most so why not accept their own Diaspora back?
I have a relative from Chile who’s father was German.
Is his name hilter? If it is, you should probably avoid him
Adam Hilter
my grandfather was from Chile, my great grandfather .. he was a medic in the Afrika Korps with Rommel hahah
@Vidoslav Yugoslavius He was a medic saving lives sir. It wasn't Germany who declared war, but Britain and France who declared war first, remember!
I would say they are the true 'war criminals' for starting something which Germany never wanted and pleaded to end!
Chile was full of them. And Paraguay. Research Stroessner in Paraguay, and Prussian influence on Chilean culture.
Thanks to you. Good job.
In 1945, Argentina had the second highest standard of living in the world.
This must have also been a consideration
And now, it's a shit hole........fuck me, I HAD TO BE BORN
@@martinxy1291 It's a complex subject but it all started with Peron's "National Socialist" (as in Nazi) policies. Nationalize industries and investments will decrease while government graft and corruption will rise. Inefficiencies will multiply almost exponentially, too. Think Cuba and Venezuela.
@@jmchez soo, any idea when this will get slightly better or just crumble down into anarchy?
Yes, but argentina went down a rabbit hole and never stopped falling. anymore.
This isn't true. Canada, NZ, Australia, Switzerland were all wealthier than Argentina after WW2. Sweden may well have been too. Argentina has never had "the second highest standard of living in the world." though it was certainly in the top 10 before 1930.
Not Argentinian but I am Bolivian. My great grandma was German, and apparently fled because of the war. Heritage and mixing in South America is pretty interesting
You can get a German passport if you have documents
south america is a gene pool of all races
I'm not from Argentina but I am Ecuadorian And my grandpa Is from Germany
En Ecuador igual todos los pueblos del sur de Ecuador son de origenes europeos desde Españoles,alemanes,Franceses 😊
Maybe because South America weren’t in the war so they could hide there easier. Also their leader was for sale. It wasn’t a bad choice as it worked out pretty well for a lot of them by all accounts.
Best choice would have been seppuku like many of the Japanese officers.
@@JME1186 you say that but I think a whole lot of SA officers have grandchildren in South America doing very well for themselves 😂 this was way before the world became so open with the internet and even TV so it was very easy to lay low
Not true, Brazil declared war againt Germany, and took an important role in helping the Alies in the Italy front of the war.
@@maxtofly1606 really? Damn I had no idea 🤷♂️
That's a positive look on it but the reality is that Argentina favored Germany.
As an ex South African what I do know is that the old South West Africa, today known as Namibia, was also an ally of the Germans. The plan was probably to use the region as a port if they were to win the war.
And of course, Namibia was a German colony before WWI.
My Oma's husband was a Nazi officer, who was imprisoned during the war. Oma rode for hours on her bicycle each day to deliver food to him in his POW camp in Europe, food she bought from selling the family linen and silver.
At the end of the war, they were told they could go to Argentina or Australia. They chose Australia because she said they'd never heard of Argentina. (Maybe this is because they were Hungarian, not German?) Oma and her husband divorced in Australia and I think she largely raised her three sons here on her own.
Nazis would not have stood out in Australia post-war, as tens (hundreds?) of thousands of Europeans migrated here then. They provided much of the know-how and labour for one of Australia's biggest infrastructure projects - the Snowy Mountains hydroelectric scheme.
Oma was not my blood relation as she was the grandma of my step brothers, but I often felt I was her favourite in our blended family in the 70s. She taught me to cook some of her traditional Hungarian recipes and I travelled with her in Germany in 1979, when she went back to visit her sister, who was trapped behind the Berlin Wall but allowed out a few weeks a year.
Oma and her husband met Hitler and Mussolini at formal dinners, so I guess her husband was of some rank.
Kia ora,
What an interesting story. She sounds very nice. I am sorry I can't feel anything for her husband. I can't even sense that she was selling family items that were not actually stolen.
But never mind my history, thanks for your great and open comment.
@@barbsmart7373 precisely!
If true thats amazing. What stories he must have had.
Oma, is German for Granmar....
@@johnmurdoch8534 amazing stories about Hitler urinating himself during speeches and declaring war on the Albert Hall, which preserved his left testicle. If your into Hitler theres a video of Frost interviewing one of his henchmen, that should frill you.
These were some of the best comments I've read in a long time thank you all good to laugh hard
Imagine:
Your an Argentinian, which is attending your grandfathers funeral, and you inherit a cool and badass uniform in black, that matches with a visor cap with a skull design in it.
why imagine? that stuff happens a lot here lol, when my grandfather died my mom got a fully wehrmacht soldier uniform, my uncle got the best (a pristine and still working luger with a bunch of medals) - Argentina is filled with escaped WW2 german veterans
it was meant to be a joke, but it is true
Skull logo? Damn never knew my grandpa used to work for a pesticide company. No wonder the uniform came with a gas mask
The Punisher
@@juanposada5171 stop lying bro
Interesting. Thanks for sharing.
If you find the migration of Germans to Argentina interesting, I suggest checking out "Hunting Hitler".
Not for the main story line that Hilter may have made it out of Germany, but to see all the huge amounts of infrastructure that Germany had built in South America, among other places. It's insane!
Ironic that people who believed in the aryan race fled to a Latin country
The stake was high + germans are known by their persuit into perfection both in good or bad :)
@@robertmoffit1135 Argentina as they said, had a large German and Italian population, in Buenos Aires and many areas of Argentina indigenous or mestizos were basically nonexistent. Remember also that there view was not always about a white only country, but a white dominated country, like South Africa, the US and Argentina, and from those only Argentina would welcome them, so it was the best and only option.
@@robertmoffit1135 Germany and Italy were friends and Hitler obviously respected Rome.
@@cipmaster1 Many came to the US as well ie Operation Paperclip. Operation Paperclip was a secret United States intelligence program in which more than 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians were taken from the former Nazi Germany to the U.S. for government employment after the end of World War II in Europe, between 1945 and 1959. Conducted by the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency (JIOA), it was largely carried out by special agents of the U.S. Army's Counterintelligence Corps (CIC). Many of these personnel were former members, and some were former leaders of the Nazi Party.
When you ask your Argentinian great grandfather if he’s ever visited Germany
“Nein”
It‘s „Nein“
Funnnnnnnny
fixed it boss
Kon Karne Führer ... not Boss☺️
Stolen comment. Unoriginal.
Germany: *lost*
Nazi Officers: *AIGHT IMMA HEADOUT*
this isnt even funny
Stalin is idiot
Stupid comment and stupid use of the English language, you bloody bastard!
@@busterbiloxi3833 to whom idiot
I fcking hate communists!
My great-grandfather was an immigrant from Russia. He was a Volga-German and, with his brothers, came to the Americas fleeing as many others looking out a new life. My great-grandfather ended up in the south of the province of Buenos Aires. Meanwhile, his brothers went northwards (it could be the province of Entre Ríos or even Southern Brazil, where there's a great German influence in those areas. I might find a distant uncle, cousin or nephew, who knows?)
@blitzkriegchile5823You mong
This only tells part of the story. Prior to the outbreak of the war, the Germans were sourcing aircraft and automotive parts made in the US by using Argentina as a proxy, to get around trade bans. There was a supply pipeline and relationship established long before the war. This also explains why the Germans launched their Antarctica expeditions from Argentina. They already had logistics bases there.
Raphael: This story goes deep and kinda frightening.
Your comment flew over many heads here.
Peace
@@amels4620 It's a deep rabbit hole indeed....
General Motors was one of those US companies that helped Germany with parts for their aeroplanes.
not true...
@@SantiagoAriasEskapa - Absolutely true. GM built parts for the German Luftwaffe.
The Argentines were hoping the Germans would bring engineering to their country.
They hoped wrong. The yanksters brought the German engineers in US. The Nazi engineer Werner von Braun was made NASAs director for 41 years. He constructed the Apollo rockets . And prepared the so called moon landing. All what the yanksters have was made by German Nazi engineering and technics. Period. Cowboy cow shit eaters were too stupid for that.
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Ya German Engineering is 🔥
@@LG-jm1io Jealous?
@@spookypunky Argentina is white! Hahaha!
Soviets: We send a man to Space.
USA: We send a man to the moon.
Germany: Sure you did! ahhhhh.....
Lmao...true story
Lol, that's funny
Very funny
All 4 people in top of me have brain cancer
Germany: We sent many men to Argentina.
They chose Argentina and Brazil because there were large German diasporas in those countries. Many Germans also left Germany in the 1950s and in the 1960s because they did not want to live in a country emasculated by its enemies. Many chose Spain.
lol was literally just thinking about this and wondering why Argentina was their choice. awesome upload, keep up the great content
The government and most people always supported the Nazi idea. Until today, it is more out of hatred of the United States and England, I clarify that it is not my opinion.
@@nadaninguno1054 Very simplistic my friend. In those years, nobody had a issue against The US....With Britain I Would say, yeah, a little concerning Farklank Islands or Malvinas Argentinas, and we may add all those shark loans the English used to make to Argentina's Elite Oligarch, so Argentina was perennely in debt.
ramiro martinez you are way off! The US was seen as the northern mirror of Argentina. Both rich countries made up of immigrants.
There was no hatred for Great Britain. Many British citizens had immigrated to Argentina and some had married into the elite families of BsAs. The British immigrants had gone to construct and invest in the railways. And other infrastructure
Because 2 main factors
All the countries surrounding the artic and Antarctica above and below the tropics of cancer and capricorn (meaning , temperate zones) are the regions that received the most European migration , most likely due to the climate . Also because most leaders in the southern cone were dictators and Nazi sympathizers
Regions around the artic are
1) "Europe", Russia and Siberia
2) Canada, USA
Regions around the Antartica
3) Southern Cone
Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay , Southern Brazil
4) South Africa (remember Apartheid?)
5) Australia, New Zealand
And to top it all up, Donald Trump the NAZIonalist, made The Radical Poorly Educated White Supremacist Republicans of the Master Race, Great Again.
There is also a large ethnic German population in Argentina where they can “blend in.” 🇦🇷
s b No, Messi is not a nazi
@@yamato3870 Messi is a midget. A rich one
@s b ok
Flak Jack Ed There is a large European population in Argentina, including Germans,
French and Italians
@NonyaBusiness! Thats intresting story. Some Estonians who escaped before soviet union took over Estonia after Ww2 moved to south american countrys among others. What was her name
Argentina was a Holliday destination since the early 1800's. I examined the boat logs, news articles and ads to find something years ago.
Josef Menguele, the angel of Death, unfortunatelly lived peacefully in Brazil with a false identity after having fleed from Argentina and Paraguai. People only found out that he was here in 1985, six years after his death (he had a heart atack while swimming in the beach).
He was constantly looking over his shoulder and lived in a state of paranoia.....especially after Eichmann was captured. Also he was very dismissive of Brazilians who he considered "sub human"
@@FuShengAlex good to know even though he should have faced judgement to do justice for those who suffered in his hands or lost lovely ones in his monstruous "experiments".
About his feeling towards Brazilians; yeah, I always wondered why he was living in Brazil since it's one of the most mixed people on Earth. I understand that he just had to (and hated it). I really hope my people made him live in disgust during his time here. 😄
The top doctor in Japan committed just as much or worse heinous crimes against humanity. The US pardoned him for his research notes...
@@michaelbread5906 didn't now that but I believe it. Actually Japan don't get as blamed as deserved for what they did in WW-II. They did things that could make nazis look like Disney villains.
Btw; I love Japan and their culture but I read a lot about their war crimes long time ago and it made me sick as I've never felted before. =/
@@michaelbread5906unit 813
You failed to mention that, at the time, Argentina had a high standard of living; It is a huge country inhabited by a 90% European-descent population, with very good infrastructure. An ideal place to blend in with the locals.
@NonyaBusiness! Then how do you explain why MOST fleeing nazis went to Argentina rather than Brazil or other SA nations.? As noted on this thread, there were many reasons for choosing Arg. over any other nations of the world. Modern conveniences surely had to be one of them. In fact, if you read up on this migration further, you'll note that MOST nazis weren't caught and lived happily ever after amongst the large German population already there.
what??? germans came to my country Paraguay years before ww2 and they still coming, it is well known.
@@gwolf1096 Yes, we know. In fact, "alto Paraguay" is a very sparsely populated region with a good climate and terrain, suitable for a large number of Europeans to settle in. They will eventually declare independence and call it "Neues Deutschland". Half your nation will be gone. Give it another 20 years for this to happen.
@@juanasenjo8515 They should've gone to Africa.
@@Repented008 No, not Africa. Argentina was, and still is, the ideal escape route for those who crave a tranquil and satisfying long life in the Pampas. I predict that in the next 20-30 years many Europeans, fleeing radical Islam in Deutschland will choose Paraguay, Uruguay, and southern Argentina as their new home. Believe it.!
Italians also fled to Argentina
Sometimes I wonder if any of my Italians great-grandparents had anything to do with the Nazis or Fascists or they were just poor people who decided to move out.
@@leobertucci9407 you should ask your parents
Not only Argentina, I am Italian born in Switzerland and currently living in it.I have family members that live in : USA in New York,Canada,Australia,New Zealand,and Japan.There are many more Italians living in foreign Countries than those currently living in Italy.They all immigratet to these Nations after the War because every thing was destroyed.
Juan Carlos De Goya
Sadly, is not not possible for me.
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My paternal great-grandpa (The one who brought my family name into Argentina) came here right after World War II in 1945. So yeah, that pretty much explains it all.
Thanks!
Because that's where I was living.
ahhhh yesss
Adlof Hatelor fokkin’ Nazi m8 :D
@@kevinperera5905 yeh!
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I had to do it, it was satisfying.
Why? Have you ever seen Argentinian women? Frankly I'm surprised that every man that fought in WW2 didn't go there to put it all behind them.
@norman simpson German woman looking more like man .... Better go with czech woman or in general Eastern Europe..... Where woman will look like woman !
Germany may have had long range aircraft capable of reaching Argentina from Spain? These could have taken NAZIS while u-boats delivered supplies.
Good theory
Not only German officers fled to Argentina. Collaborators of other nationalities as well. In 1994, two Dutch journalists identified a Dutch collaborator living happily in Bariloche. Denounced at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, the extradition of this criminal was sent to the Argentinian Government - which denied it, under the "pretense" that he was now an "exemplary" Argentinian citizen. This criminal was responsible for sending my mother and grandparents to concentration camps, back in 1943, from Amsterdam. His name is thoroughly mentioned in the process that his former boss (also collaborator) faced in 1945, right after the war. This process is kept in the National Archives in The Hague 😢
"Oh Herr Hanz-...err I mean Senior Hanz, how are you doing today?"
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im doing fine
Argentina loses world cup 2014 to Germany
Whole family sad
Grandpa we did it
1986 méxico
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@@BanCommies_Fascists 2014 semif-final. 7
How many times must you repeat the same sentence in order to pass the 10 minutes mark and get that sweet ad revenue? For God's sake, this could've easily been a two and a half minutes video...
Honestly this, it felt like I was banging my head against the table when he lead me in the run-around about how the Argentinians had ties/liked the europeans, and then all this other irrelevant talking points to buy time.
Indeed.. this channel should be renamed to ‘Advertisementia’
You know that now you need only 8 minutes
What??? Sound informative for me, tf did he repeat?
that goes for almost every youtube video
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This all changed when Mario Götze scored in extension
hahahahahaha best comment
LMAO!!!
hahaha yeah that was really painful
Traidores. El único país que no se olvidó de ellos en 1945.
... on a great pass from Andre Schurle
Not all the Germans who left for Argentina were war criminals, or even members of the Nazi Party. The country was completely devastated, after the war. It was bombarded into rubble, partitioned, and occupied by several foreign powers including the Soviets. Adolph Galland, a former fighter pilot and Luftwaffe general took the ratline to Buenos Aires through Italy. He left Germany because he was prohibited from obtaining gainful employment sufficient to earn any reasonable standard of living. Galland immigrated to Argentina at the invitation of the well known German aircraft engineer, Kurt Tank, who designed the FW-190 and the Ta-152. He had lived through a devastating war of attrition on the losing side, Göring had attempted to have him executed for insubordination prior to the collapse, he was imprisoned by the Allies after the war and was threatened with arrest by over-eager war crimes investigators. Forced by these circumstances to work as a game warden and living off of wild game and foraged edibles. He accepted Tank’s invitation.
Galland worked in Argentina as a military advisor for the Argentine Air Force and a test pilot for Kurt Tank who was helping to develop. When Peròn was deposed his presence in Argentina was more tenuous. He was invited back to Germany to take charge of the new West German Air Force but was eventually denied that opportunity because he had left the country without the permission of the occupying forces.
And sadly despite this, most of argentines now claim themselves as peronists. They don't even know how Peron agreed with nazism and fascism. They don't even know who Perón was. They don't even know what nazism and fascism were about.
@@georgesteven9644 proveer*
They know what it is and they prefer it to communism. Please, tell us about the great economic successes in Cuba and Venezuela - oh, wait... those economies are both crap.
@@jackmcmillan8854 except new peronism is basically socialism. It is only fascistic in its tactics.
Nice vid
The Why is VERY simple, To avoid capture, trial, incarceration and EXECUTION.
Oof just see what he tells at the beggining
But that still doesn't answer the question. Why choose Argentina over everywhere else?
Kahlil Sykies Argentina was governed by fascism and Argentina was almost a world power back then as well Argentina only declared war on the axis not to be looked badly at by the allies. Some of the Germans who fled to Argentina where taken back and captured
@@lorenzogonzalezsalas4129 They wanted to be neutral. They were allies with both sides. The Germans, Italians. But also America, Britain, France. Which was an obvious conflict.
As stated in the video. They never declared war to remain neutral. But the SS officers were hated, ridiculed, austrized and scorned by most people around the world. So what about Argentina, made so many of them feel so comfortable? Or at least made so many of them feel that it was the best place to run to? There had to have been social reasons.
Take a look at the map, Argentina is pretty much as far away as you can get and still be on planet Earth..... Plus they had Evita....lol
Because that was the plan from before the start of the war. Everyone new there was a chance Germany could lose. Especially after Italy and North Africa.
I was born in Mexico and my ancestors arrived along with many refugees from the European wars mainly from Germany, Poland, Czech Republic.
we still retain many Czech traditions
Cap
Thats certainly rare because most Mexicans are mestizos or fully Spanish or indians
@@jasonaquino7882 not necessarily. There are a ton of German Mexicans or simply European Mexicans in general in the Northwest regions of Mexico 🤷🏽♀️
@@mangovasco3296 rare doesn't mean non-existent.
He is technically correct, most mexicans are mestizos, so non mestizo Mexicans are rare.
The ignorant people in these comments that don't believe that🤣🤦♀️
Go read some history.
Fascinating, very well done
They also fled to the south of Brazil too, ironically, many Jews fled to Argentina too.
they had the 3rd largest jewish population in Argentina at that time. which makes the case was Hitler working with Zionist Jews?
They intended to continue the dialog.
george bsuh they sure did. The Zionist movement put the NSDAP into power.
A commemorative coin was created with the Star of David one side, and yep, swastika the other side.
The state of Israel was created just after the war.
Argentina is a free to immigrate place. There where a lot of Jews and as the video says, Perón supported the nazi ideology. Jet Idk why you will only hear inside Argentina that Perón was actually paid to hide Hitler. And by my opinion and hearing it from a lot of people: Hitler didn't killed himself. He was at Salta or San Juan dancing in clubs (he liked our music?)
So they were just hunting the Jews they didn’t flee D;
Ahh Argentina. I remember playing as them in Hearts of Iron IV and amassed a giant tank army, only to discover I forgot South America is littered with forests, and tanks get massive combat penalties in forest terrain. I learned something that day.
Not in the Philippines. The fault of the parents are also being blame on their children. Ask the Roman Catholic Church that put the blame of Marcos' to his children and even ask their children to ask forgiveness for whatever fault their parents did. The Church and the leftist communist fronts wanted the Marcos' children to beg forgiveness for what their parents did because that will also a sort of confirmation of the blames the church and the leftist ascribe to the late President Marcos.
@@diosdadoapias I think this is the wrong comment section, bud.
LMFAO
I done the exact same, man did chile and Brazil put up a heck of a fight
tell that to the ardennes
Why is this in my recommended right after they win the World Cup ?!😂
lol same
Same I getting pics of messi with a certain moustache and sign on twitter 😂
Ikr lmao
Ikr and alot of other videos about them and racism lool
Because latley people have been asking themseles why is it that the Argentinian national team does not have any black athletes. And people have come to the conclusion that Argentinans are racist because yes Indeed there are communities of black argentinian citizens marginated by its own government and history books don't tell what actually happened.
Three things you should never ask:
A man about his income.
A woman about her age.
A German about that 'why grandpa lives in Argentina...'
Another one:
- Hey Daddy, I know what was a Grandpa in the army during WW2!
- What?
- He was an electrician, I saw the 'two lighnings' on his helmet! 😅
That's only for guys in Bariloche and Villa Gessel
Grab a book, you will find in Argentina, thatmost grandpa's citizenship were Italian or Spanish....