Nazis and Nazi Sympathizers in Latin America after 1945 / / edited by Linda Erker, Raanan Rein.

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 elite...

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Superior document:Jewish Latin America ; 16
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2024.
©2024
Year of Publication:2024
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Jewish Latin America ; 16.
Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2024.
Physical Description:1 online resource (293 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Preliminary Material / Linda Erker and Raanan Rein
  • Chapter 1 Introduction / Raanan Rein and Linda Erker
  • Part 1 Politics and Narratives / Linda Erker and Raanan Rein
  • Chapter 2 From the Blue Book to the CEANA Report and Back: Narratives of Argentina’s Complicity with the Third Reich and Nazi Fugitives / Raanan Rein
  • Chapter 3 The Munitions King Fritz Mandl: How an Austrian Emigrant of Jewish Origin Was Turned into a Nazi / Ursula Prutsch
  • Part 2 German and Austrian Continuities / Linda Erker and Raanan Rein
  • Chapter 4 The Survival of Nazi Diplomatic Structures in Post-World War II Latin America / Christian Cwik
  • Chapter 5 Avoiding “Everything that Separates”: the West German Embassy and the Nazi Exiles in Argentina / Daniel Stahl
  • Chapter 6 A Menacing Past: Spies with a National Socialist Background on Mission for West Germany in Latin America / Holger M. Meding
  • Part 3 A New Start in the New Continent / Linda Erker and Raanan Rein
  • Chapter 7 A Veil of Silence: the Life and Networks of Walther Rauff in Chile / Gustavo Guzmán
  • Chapter 8 National Socialist Propagandists on the Río de la Plata: Wilfred von Oven and Johann von Leers as Members of Right-Wing Extremism Networks after 1945 / Martin Finkenberger
  • Chapter 9 Hans Fischböck: the Late Escape of a Nazi War Criminal to Argentina / Jutta Fuchshuber and Andreas Schrabauer
  • Part 4 Scientists as Mercenaries / Linda Erker and Raanan Rein
  • Chapter 10 Warfare Research and the Two Careers of Hans-Joachim Schumacher / Jason Lemberg
  • Chapter 11 Armin Dadieu: How the Physical Chemist Went from “Austria’s Gravedigger” to Rocket Scientist in Perón’s “New Argentina” / Linda Erker
  • Part 5 Jewish Pursuit of Nazis and Collaborators / Linda Erker and Raanan Rein
  • Chapter 12 “Via Área”/“Por Correo Aéreo”: Correspondence with Jews and Jewish Communities in South America in the Simon Wiesenthal Archive / Kinga Frojimovics and Marianne Windsperger
  • Chapter 13 Final Remarks / Philippe Sands
  • Back Matter
  • Index / Linda Erker and Raanan Rein.