Nazis and Nazi sympathizers in Latin America after 1945

• Titel: Nazis and Nazi sympathizers in Latin America after 1945
• Mitwirkende: Erker, Linda [HerausgeberIn]
• Mitwirkende: Rain, Raʿanan [HerausgeberIn]
• Verf.angabe: edited by Linda Erkner, Raanan Rein
• Verlagsort: Leiden ; Boston
• Verlag: Brill
• Jahr: 2024
• Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 293 Seiten)
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Jewish Latin America ; volume 16
• Fussnoten: Based on a conference held in Vienna at the Simon Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, this volume brings together a group of scholars, many of whom had previously published only in German
• Schrift/Sprache: English
• ISBN: 978-90-04-69957-1
• DOI: doi:10.1163/9789004699571
• Schlagwörter: (g)Lateinamerika / (s)Kriegsverbrecher / (s)Nationalsozialist / (z)Geschichte 1945-1980
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Dokumenttyp: Aufsatzsammlung
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe: Nazis and Nazi sympathizers in Latin America after 1945. - Leiden : Brill, 2024. - 293 pages
• K10plus-PPN: 1889389234
• K10plus-PPN:
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Abstract

Numerous Nazis and Nazi sympathizers fled to Latin America at the end of World War II. This volume traces life trajectories and professional activities of some of these persons and reconstructs their contacts with local elites in their new and old homes in the context of the Cold War.

Abstract

Aside from the prominent perpetrators such as Adolf Eichmann, Josef Mengele or Klaus Barbie, there were numerous other cases of Nazis and Nazi sympathizers from Germany and Austria who ended up in Latin America after 1945. Their life trajectories, professional activities, and contacts to local elites in their new homes have hardly been subject to systematic research to date. Their new lives in Latin America, their careers e.g. as diplomats, secret service agents or scientists are therefore a main focus of this volume. The biographies of these people and their networks are woven into the larger political, social, and scientific contexts of postwar Europe and Latin America, especially in the early Cold War period.