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"Latin America" Max Planck Society, www.mpg.de/brasilien.
Goñi, Uki. The Real Odessa: How Perón Brought the Nazi War Criminals to Argentina (United Kingdom: Granta Books, 2022).
Levenda, Peter. Ratline: Soviet Spies, Nazi Priests, and the Disappearance of Adolf Hitler (United States: Nicolas-Hays, Incorporated, 2012).
Stahl, Daniel. Hunt for Nazis: South America's Dictatorships and the Prosecution of Nazi Crimes (Netherlands: Amsterdam University Press, 2018).
Steinacher, Gerald. Nazis on the Run: How Hitler's Henchmen Fled Justice (United Kingdom: OUP Oxford, 2012).
Tock, David. “German Immigration and Adaptation to Latin America” PhD diss., (Liberty University, 1994)
Walters, Guy. Hunting Evil: How the Nazi War Criminals Escaped and the Hunt to Bring Them to Justice (United Kingdom: Bantam Press, 2009)
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can you rename the video to imply national socialists fled to south america? not Germans in general
that thumbnail tho
Hey, in the minute 8:26 you put the face of the Argentine dictator Videla, not the chilean one of the same lastname, they were not related, nice video though.
no
Griffin finding out about Wojaks existing is by far both the biggest failure and success of this community
Him and Extra History have been making rounds with them 😔
When I ask my Argentinian grandfather if he was electrician because he has a helmet with 2 lightning bolts but he says Nein💀
Im sorry but who?
Another meme ruined by normies.
@@IrishCatholic_ no im serious who is wojak?
The guy who makes the thumbnails for these videos deserves a raise and promotion.
Yeah ja
2:30 if only general Lee woulda been held to the Yamashita standard which the Usa held Japan and Germany
@@franciscoacevedo3036 rain
@@franciscoacevedo3036rain
@@franciscoacevedo3036rain
They always talk about how the Nazis went to South America or Argentina but they always forget that a large part of them went to the USA and the Soviet Union.
Yeah but the fact that any of them escaped due to US or British tax money should be more well known.
And as a result we benefited immensely through Operation Paperclip.
@@Arrows_Of_DoomI wonder why they couldn’t just execute those war criminals after taking all their knowledge. Was it that hard to play nice temporarily?
@@mikloridden8276Then the other war criminals find out and none of them will cooperate. Plus the US, UK cared more about anti-communism than punishing war criminals.
Also knowledge involving jets, rockets and nuclear technology are not something that's easily learnt and you need those specialised individuals working on it for decades.
@@googane7755 I get that but a lot of those guys ended up just retiring and not touching anything. Would have been cool if they just disappeared them during those times for Justice sakes.
My brazilian grandpa was an electrician during ww2. He even had a helmet with lightning bolts on it!
Two lightning bolts? Means he was an expert in both AC and DC. Skilled man. :)
Bah guri tche
@German_Empire_enjoyernot the Kaiser
😂
Those 2 lightning bolts stand for the SS.....which they were the ones that ran ALL the concentration camps!!!
Aka SKULL
Research history
Heinrich himmler
One correction: the general used to represent Chile in 8:25 is actually an Argentine dictator, Jorge Rafael Videla, one of our most infamous dictators
Chilean here, can confirm
If they have a Videla portrait, then dirty war video confirmed😳😳😳???
@@MrBao-yt7bkprobably re-used from malvinas video (?)
8:58 another correction: the word the graphics guy wanted to write is _Gesellschaft_ (as in 'society') and not Gesselschaft
@@Pucaramodels No. The President they were probably searching for wad Gabriel Gonzales *Videla* someone must've gotten their reaserch slightly off
As a brazilian, I remember having a history class at 8th grade about ww2, and my teacher taught us about Mengele, and all the crimes he committed and was never punished for. That was for sure a very painful class to have, but a very necessary one imo
I'm glad he didn't keep it to himself and even educate classes of people about such horror
I still remember reading mengele's Wikipedia Page thinking about it as the history of the far away european continent, as customary for anyone in the New World basically.
Then I was shocked to read he died in fucking BERTIOGA, a beach town in my state where I've been to multiple times
@@zanesc01 crazy to think the worst monsters in human history escaped uncharged for their actions, living free while not even feeling any remorse for the piles of corpses they left behind
@@gabithefurryAt the very least, Mengele had a pretty horrific death by drowning. Shiro Isshi got to live peacefully and died surrounded by his family when he took so many people away from theirs.
Eu lembro de ter lido um artigo na Superinteressante há uns 10 anos sobre ele também
Deveria ter morrido mt mais devagar do que morreu
everybody gangsta till your Argentinian grandpa start's speaking fluent German
As someone who gose to Mexico every other summer. It’s a great place to get away from it all. Especially rural towns. Latin America is definitely a great place to flee into hiding.
The thing with Argentina/Brasil/Chile is that previous immigration waves made even easier to hide in cities though the integration of their culture in the local one, and also climate is quite similar in the southern regions, like in the cities around Llanquihue lake in Chile that almost looks like as if it were in Germany; so they could even speak in German without raising suspicions.
@@EduardoEscarez neat.
Revolutionary mexico is actually a interesting subject given how it was deadly against almost every radical movement and was extremely left leaning (at the time).
Harboring trotsky and aiding the republicans in the spanish civil war must have deterred war criminals of the funny austrian very very cautious.
We are talking about the southern cone, I don't think anyone wants to hide in Mexico knowing that they have the side to the country with more larger espionage organizations.
@@lettuceman9439 the only ones with the cojones to see Franco for what it was. A fascist dictador and part of the fuckin axxis.
People must also remember that the vast majority of Germans and Italians who came to South America, came before the war. This is why the Nations where sympathetic to these nations. Since they already had a large diaspora of those cultures
No no no
Ppl better research history and pay attention
Germany and the Italians and the CARTELS have been in business together for MANY YEARS!!!
The Italian mafias run and own almost everything...as well as GERMANY!!!
And this has been since ancient times.... the holy Roman empire
Truth.
Yes, the Germans started to arrive around 1820s and the Italians on 1870s… way before the wars.
Yeah, that's why my grandpa has an SS uniform ☺
Yeah, and people have been fleeing to these nations ever since, from there wrongdoings 🧐👍🏻
You should have shot them, on the border, but Indians have always been weak to pale hight males ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏾✊🏽✊🏿
Biggest plot twist would be if it turned out Austrian Painter survived WW2 and his family is looking to regain power yet again
As an angry mustache model in Argentina
I see you everywhere
Is this a reference to something?
@HeisenbergFam
No ! But his reincarnation will.
Hitler has no children of his own. He only has one sister that died unmarried and childless. His one nephew (that we know of) enlisted in the US Navy around 1942 so that is a dead end...
My Argentinian grandfathers work uniform has lightning bolts on it. Guess he was a really good electrician! Still wondering what the red flag in his attic is for though.
He might have been a gas worker. A hindu gasworker. A hindu gasworker who somehow has lopsided vision
Plot Twist: His grandfather was just an Argentinian Neo-Nazi not a real nazi
@@titanlord9267Wait hold on? Why you said Hindu gasworker? That symbol was stolen by the Nazis from India.
@@beetlebg3759 Isn't Hindu an Indian religion though?
@@shadowgod1009 Yeah like that’s what it is and I was wondering why he did that because it might offend a lot of people.
German inmigration and influence in Chile was already strong by late XIX century (For example, the Armed Forces were reformed and influenced by prussian military traditions). A great part of Chile's society admired german culture.This was one of the reasons why Chile mantained its neutrality for so long and only declared war on Japan in 1945, but not against Germany or Italy. German colonies already existed in Chile, especially in the southern regions, and some german-chileans even fought in the war (like Peter Adolf Caesar Hansen).
Therebefore, Chile was a good place for nazis to escape and settle.
Use real numbers like a normal person
@@thicctony6236 What do you mean?
@@belegthoron8603 this you 🤓
@@Finduszip12 why?
@@Finduszip12 Arabic numerals are cringe, embrace chad roman numerals
The role of Latin America in WW2 often gets overlooked. Great vid
"In"?
@@mongoose6685?
They funded the NAZISTS 👍🏻🇩🇰❤️
Come for the thumbnail, stay for the content
The thumbnail is literally fanservice for history nerds like us
My great grandfather was german and apparently fled during the war (according to my grandma) to Colombia where I am from. I never was told if he was actually escaping the conflict or the loss…
it was the loss
Mengele lived for years in a mud brick house in a very poor neighborhood in the state of São Paulo, people said that he never talked to anybody, only when he went to the closest bakery to buy food.
It is also believed that he traveled once to the city of Cândido Godói in Southern Brazil, the city is famous for being the place with the biggest amount of twins in the world.
Say the real reason.
He had a job as a doctor and performed abortions. And not the good kind. The kind he performed cause he really missed the war. Wouldn't be surprised if some mothers died under his care (and obviously didn't know who he was) Gisella Perl he was never.
Oh that’s just swell.
I must say it, I love all of your content. All from the roman wars, to the russo-ukrainian conflict. The time and effort you and your team put in to these videos is amazing, keep it up❤
His videos are quite biased and misguided., IMO
2:30 if only general Lee woulda been held to the Yamashita standard which the USA held Japan and Germany
@@IrishCatholic_you wouldn't have said a word if the video was filled with stuff you only agree with. People only complain about bias when it's stuff they don't like. The guys at Armchair try their best to be impartial, but it's very hard to do so when talking about Nazis.
As a Brazilian with a German family I'm proud
That they came from the HRE and Luxembourg in 1862
I got family down there, too. Never do I miss the chance to tell people about my grandfather being in ww2 or about my Argentine relatives....
He earned the Medal of Honor at the Battle of Ramagen, and part of us left for there after participating in The Hungarian War of Independence (1848-1849).
😮💨
I grew up in Peru and my best friend from high school has a german last name. He told me his family from the mothers side were germans that came to the Peruvian amazon just one generation ago. He told me stories about his uncle living in the jungle and being a crazy man. Now living in Peru as a child I didnt know enough about world history to connect the dots, but now that Im an adult living the US I realize that probably my best friends family were nazis that left Germany after the war. I havent seen him in years but next time I see him I will sure tell him "dude your family were nazis that left after ther war" lol we will probably have a good laugh about it... I want to add that my friend and his mom are probably the nicest and most caring people I have met in my life. His mom was a nice caring woman that dedicated her entire life to raise her children, when I was already an adult she once told me a very caring and heartfelt story about how my friends father had raised him. So there you go for being the descendants of people who the world have demonized in history, never judge people you havent met.
Cheers from Chile! I have been watching your channel for years, It's amazing to see how it has evolved.
They also went to NASA
Way more germans went to the usa, the feds love nazis.
True….
Love your content, it's so well researched. Thanks for making a video about LATAM again.
Greetings from Chile! 🇨🇱
That thumbnail lol.
Love your stuff!
In Chile there was a German Commune known as Colonia Dignidad whose leader was a Former Nazi who fled Germany Outside was Normal but Inside was a Torture Chamber for Pinochet Secret Police.
Wasn't there leader also a child rapist?
What's with dictators and their love for war criminals
"former" nazi
@@ninab.4540They get it done.
It makes me a little bit happy knowing that Mengele died in such a terrifying way - slipping underwater as he's unable to will his muscles to pull him to the surface, being fully aware of his fate
Should have been worse
It’s been rumored that he was assassinated and made to look like he drowned.
@@philippeszwarcbart6507Whether that's true or not, his afterlife would have still been the same, in Hell
@@roomyhaddock3245 100% he’s in hell. However there is something comforting about the rumor that Mossad may have had the last laugh and gotten justice by delivering him to hell.
It was still too good for him but too each their own.
Yet another masterpiece by the armchair historian team. Love your work
**Laughs in operation paper clip and NASA**
I always wondered about this so thank you for sharing. It's a wonderful thing to do so thank you.. I personally appreciate it.
Great video as usual but as a long time viewer I’ve noticed you guys are really focused on the Second World War and the most popular content you can think of. I understand those get more views but I hope you guys know you have a loyal viewer base that will support whatever you want to do. Keep it up guys👍
Agreed, I'd love some more German unification, Northern War etc - basically 1700-1800
2:30 if only general Lee woulda been held to the Yamashita standard which the USA held Japan and Germany
@@franciscoacevedo3036 Civil war is different from wars between countries. Plus the Confederates received a conditional surrender which legally protected them from treason convictions. Otherwise, the civil war would have lasted longer.
@@WellBattle6 so you wanted the United States to comply with a treaty??? The same country who tore up hundreds of native land treatises, the German empire conditional surrender, the 40 acres and a mule, the Cherokee representative in Congress??? All promises BROKEN. Not to mention that those British taxes taught in school were a result of the USA provoking the 7 years w4r after CONTINUOUSLY disregarding the British authorities and settling into native land. No, brother those W4R Cr8mln4ls shoulda been hog tied dragged through the dirt they whipped millions of black 🖤 people court marshalled in west point and húng. Those mofos are indeed a public nuisance that's the reasoning USA wanted to eradicated nassies from Germany. And btw the civil war is STILL dragging on socially. You got a good amount of the country h4ting on Kaepernick while elevating these monsters to school names busts statues military bases. If this country was Germany we would be elevating the Austrian failed artist while h4ting on Ann Frank
Mainly just because wwii has the biggest scale and the most detailed records
Such incredible content as always
Thanks for this video. It was super insightful.
Excellently informative video about a topic I knew little about! Awesome job, Griffin!
Hell nah that thumbnail 💀
Amazing video once again
I love the videos, they only go up in quality! ❤
i showed this video to my argentinian grandfather
he started doing these arm raises. I’m just so glad that he’s getting some arm exercise
The quality on your new vids is insane.
That thumbnail tho 😂😂😂
Congrats on 2M, keep up the good work
Great episode can’t wait for more
8:26
Small Correction.
The man on the left is Jorge Rafael Videla, the Argentinan Dictator from 1976 to 1981.
He was not a Chilean political figure or head of state.
Personally, I would've used the images of Presidents Juan Antonio Rios or Gabirel Gonzales Videla.
I'm not sure if the image of the Paraguayn representative is correct so maybe someone can help me out here.
a new banger of a video 🔥🔥🔥
Thanks for the new video. I've had a bad day and I could only listen to sad music until I saw this. Now I'm going to dive into history and great Animation to help me get over my slump
Great episode, Griff!
Nice work bro
Surprised you never mentioned Martin Bormann since he’s the only one of Hitler’s close staff that has a debated escape story to Paraguay. Historians lean on the side of him being shot outside the train station in Berlin’s Government District, but there are some things that contradict that.
It was used as a joke in _Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory_ (1971).
When they announce the false fifth winner on the telly, the Paraguayan casino mogul, they bring up his picture, and it’s an old portrait of Bormann with the insignias all airbrushed off.
Watch Dr Mark Feltons videos on it. They believe he was killed in Berlin. According to Dr Felton at least and he's an expert on it
What a stunning animation!
Lovely content - thank you !
8:25 why is Videla (An Argentinian) the one to represent Chile?
Thx for this great Birthday Present 😋👍🥳
freaking love the thumbnail and the refrence dude
Great video guys
Just wanted to tell you how your videos really helped me to get through the final exams in High school two years ago and introduced me to so much knowledge about history. Especially, being from south america i was surprised how little i was explained about WWI and WWII outside Germany, Italy and the UK. Here i am, two years later and I'm quite sure that after finishing university i'm gonna get a major in history
The thumbnail is amazing
great video, the thumbnail made me chuckle :D
Good video overall, but I found the ticking in the background at some points a bit distracting. I don't know if it's just the way my earbuds are balanced, but the ticking felt pretty loud and disruptive
I think the animators did a particularly good job on this video, especially with animating the eyes.
10/10 thumbnail
Love your videos. I know it's not much but I'm able to thank you
Griffin said:
" Let's check if a Mr. beast style thumbnail will generate more views. "
That thumbnail is freakin amazing
This channel gets better and better
Great video!!
"Not just beer and pretzels" lmao that needs to be used more often in your videos when the Germans have trouble with something.
"They attempted to take Stalingrad but it wasn't just beer and pretzels"
Germany isn't just bear and brezels
He’s used the phrase “sunshine and sauerkraut” a couple of times before, which is also a lovey phrase.
Yeah its so funny🥸hahahahaha🤦
You are the absolute last person I would expect to reference wojaks anywhere, especially your thumbnail
Mqn, been a while since ibe seen a raid ad, love the vids keep it up!
always a good day when Armchair Historian uploads
I've never been to South America myself, but I would like to visit the Andes in particular. Thank you for another interesting episode.
God be with you out there everybody. ✝️ :)
I think the most curious thing about it is how much the previous immigration waves were almost directly caused by similar principles the Nazis had. Lots of Pomeranian and other distinct ethnic Germanic groups across the regions of Austria and such were pushed out by repeated discrimination and reprisal by the Prussians and eventually the Kaiser. Even many "volkisch" found them unworthy; swarthy and tainted by either some sort of Slavic or perhaps Turkic blood. So after their mighty machine collapses under its own egotistical impotence, they ended up right where they sent the others they found disgusting. It's poetic, if poetry also had Simon Wiesenthal with a Walther trailing not too far behind.
white people love hate is what you're saying
Nice video!
This question just so happened to pop into my mind just now and here's this video from less than 45 minutes ago. Perfect
Hoping for a video regarding about Operation Condor, South America deserves more attention!
That thumbnail is perfect
You guys make the absolute best thumbnails!
Very good video friend from Brazil 🇧🇷🤙
8:30 That is the wrong Videla, that one is the argentinean one
I would import Germans too. They're fine people, and I don't care about their supposed war crimes
Both Americans and Soviet did, it was just somehow improper when done by Argentinians...
Supposed ? They all murdered, tortured, experimented on people, etc. Just being a member of the SS shows how fucked up these people were. I live close to a monument that commemorates how the Germans gathered people from the area and executed them for no reason at all , just because they could.
At 8:31, Jorge Rafael Videla (left) was actually leading Argentina during the years of 1976 - 1981
The thumbnail was just perfect
Finally,the perfect thumbail for a history video.
griffin knows what the most catchy thumbnails are 😆
You make good stuff.
Quality content
A vid on the Soviet-Afghan war would be amazing
Sup my man but on a different channel!
@@sergioventura2595 great minds think alike my good man
@@conserva-chan2735 What are your thoughts on the thumbnail? I thought it was mega funny
@sergioventura2595 very good, reminds me of Wow_Mao
@@conserva-chan2735 Your also fighting an up hill battle here too?
One of the best thumbnails I’ve seen from this channel 😂
For the algorithm good video.
I love both content and this meme thumbnails ;)
Perfect thumbnail
You didn't mentioned Walter Rauff, he was responsible of the gas vans, and then worked for Chile's government with impunity without even hiding.
lets goooo, new video just drop
I've been a sub for a long time and I always come away from a video more knowledgeable but I have a non-history question: did you get a new artist? I noticed during the Klaus story that the lines are incredibly clean and very well stylized. As a fellow illustrator and cartoonist I had to mention this and commend both the hiring of the new artists and commend the artist themselves.
Fun fact: among the last major incidents of Germans fleeing to South America happened in the early '90s with Erich Honecker and his family in Chile, though it was less "escape" and more "got off by technicality due to cancer."
Apparently both Erich and his wife were given a sendoff worthy of the DDR there, with the surviving members of Allende's family in attendance.
Love it
Very interesting
I love this channel so much, my favorite video is about the iran iraq war, I have seen that video over a dozen times now, keep it up!
“Papa have you ever been to Germany?”
“Nein”
Nine times, wow.
Although Mengele was never captured alive, having died in 1979, in 1985, his remains were located and exhumed, and in a karmic twist of irony, his skeleton is now kept at the São Paulo Institute for Forensic Medicine for educational aid.
Can’t forget about Perón’s rat lines
I just came to say that I love your thumbnail!