The Pope is quite aware that the Nazis had their flaws, but at least they weren’t Americans.
Argentina-Germany Axis
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
I’ll bet the Pope loves to sing “Springtime For Hitler”
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There are still pockets of Nazis throughout South America. The Nazis believe that Hitler will rise from the dead.
I’ll wager an initial corps went to the Southern Cone of South America because it was a relatively affluent part of the world and they figured the haphazard character of South American civil administration would make them more difficult to locate. After that, there would have been chain migration as well.
A mess of Latin America countries enacted a pro-forma declaration of war against Germany in December 1941, but Mexico and most of the South American states took their time, entering at various points between April 1942 and May 1945. I doubt there was much transatlantic travel during the period running from June 1944 to May 1945 or that it was safe to do so, but there were still places in Latin America which were formally neutral at that time, Argentina and Chile among them.