Nazism in Chile

Final solution Pre-Machtergreifung Post-Machtergreifung Parties Some German Chileans supported Nazism prior to Adolf Hitler's taking control of Germany in 1933, including the National Socialist Movement of Chile (1932–1938).

Other movements related to Nazism continued to operate in the country until the latter half of the 20th century, and former Schutzstaffel (SS) officer Walter Rauff spent his later life there.

[3] Palacios traces the origins of the Spanish component of the "Chilean race" to the coast of the Baltic Sea, specifically to Götaland in Sweden,[3] one of the supposed homelands of the Goths.

In 2018, History's investigative documentary series Hunting Hitler visited the archives and asserted the existence of a network of over 700 outposts resembling Chile's secretive Colonia Dignidad (which housed some Nazis),[12] as well as a concentration camp run by former Schutzstaffel (SS) officer Walter Rauff,[13] who supported Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.

[14] Senior SS officer Richard Glücks, believed to have died in 1945, was speculated to have escaped Germany, allegedly to Chile.

Black-and-white photograph of Nazis standing in a decorated office. An empty table is in the foreground. Three men look towards the camera, including one in the middle with a toothbrush moustache.
Nazi meeting in Chile , from the country's 1940s investigation
Black-and-white photograph of a large assembly with a Nazi flag on the back wall. Hitler Youth stand on the left. Seated in the front row are suited men with Nazi armbands; the central baldish man has a toothbrush moustache. Behind him are a hatted woman and a man with no sideburns, flanked by four-plus children.
Nazi assembly of men, women, and children (including Hitler Youth ), [ 1 ] from the 1939–1947 investigation [ 2 ]