Nazis and Nazi Sympathizers in Latin America after 1945

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

List of Figures



1 Introduction

 Raanan Rein and Linda Erker



Part 1: Politics and Narratives



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

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



4 The Survival of Nazi Diplomatic Structures in Post-World War II Latin America

 Christian Cwik

5 Avoiding “Everything that Separates”: the West German Embassy and the Nazi Exiles in Argentina

 Daniel Stahl

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



7 A Veil of Silence: the Life and Networks of Walther Rauff in Chile

 Gustavo Guzmán

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

9 Hans Fischböck: the Late Escape of a Nazi War Criminal to Argentina

 Jutta Fuchshuber and Andreas Schrabauer



Part 4: Scientists as Mercenaries



10 Warfare Research and the Two Careers of Hans-Joachim Schumacher

 Jason Lemberg

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



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

13 Final Remarks

 Philippe Sands



Index