“Angel of Death” Joseph Mengele fled BA when the Mossad captured Eichman. Mengele drowned years later hiding out in Brazil. He was an evil sick bastard. Klaus Barbie the Butcher of Lyon, hid in plain sight in Bolivia for years. Finally the French managed to get him extradited. The great mime a young Marcel Marceau secreted Jews into Switzerland was one of Barbie’s targets
General Austin Pinochet in Chile had some ex Nazi running his main prison torture camp in a rural secretive area
I like Simon Reeve’s travel shows. One of the stranger places he went to was a large old German community in Paraguay. They have Amish type beliefs of no or limited technology, use horse buggies, marry young etc. They speak Old German with Spanish as their 2nd language
But they have also accumulated great wealth through beef farming and owning the whole supply chain with large abbatoirs, trucking fleets, export companies etc. Their best and brightest getting a US or European Uni education before coming back to be the execs
All a bit strange
Then in Argentina there is a town of German descendants of sailors from the Graf Spree battleship which was scuttled in the Rio Grande off Montevideo. Many of them stayed and settled in Argy. HMSNZ Achilles helped cripple the GS in 1939. They got a tikka tape parade in Auckland when they returned to NZ.
I visited a cemetery in Montevideo where there are a couple of NZ sailors buried from the sea battle. Long way from home
General Austin Pinochet in Chile had some ex Nazi running his main prison torture camp in a rural secretive area
I like Simon Reeve’s travel shows. One of the stranger places he went to was a large old German community in Paraguay. They have Amish type beliefs of no or limited technology, use horse buggies, marry young etc. They speak Old German with Spanish as their 2nd language
But they have also accumulated great wealth through beef farming and owning the whole supply chain with large abbatoirs, trucking fleets, export companies etc. Their best and brightest getting a US or European Uni education before coming back to be the execs
All a bit strange
Then in Argentina there is a town of German descendants of sailors from the Graf Spree battleship which was scuttled in the Rio Grande off Montevideo. Many of them stayed and settled in Argy. HMSNZ Achilles helped cripple the GS in 1939. They got a tikka tape parade in Auckland when they returned to NZ.
I visited a cemetery in Montevideo where there are a couple of NZ sailors buried from the sea battle. Long way from home
