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Carlos Horst Fuldner (December 16, 1910 – 1992) was an Argentine born Nazi and businessman. [1] He served as a captain in the SS during World War II, at one point as a translator for the Blue Division, and after the war worked with Rodolfo Freude and Karl Nicolussi-Leck to set up ratlines to assist fleeing Nazis get to South America and find employment.
Lake Fuschl [1] [2] [3] (German: Fuschlsee) is a lake in the Salzkammergut, Austria, located in the state of Salzburg. Its area is approximately 2.7 km 2 (1.0 sq mi ...
Even before the Nazi takeover of Germany in 1933, a German Chilean youth organization was established with strong Nazi influence. Nazi Germany pursued a policy of Nazification of the German Chilean community. [10] These communities and their organizations were considered a cornerstone to extend the Nazi ideology across the world by Nazi Germany.
German submarine U-977 was a World War II Type VIIC U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine which escaped to Argentina after Germany's surrender. The submarine's voyage to Argentina led to legends, apocryphal stories and conspiracy theories that it and U-530 had transported escaping Nazi leaders (such as Adolf Hitler) and/or Nazi gold to South America, that it had made a secret voyage to ...
They found 3,682 bags and cartons of German currency, 80 bags of foreign currency, 8,307 gold bars, 55 boxes of gold bullion, 3,326 bags of gold coins, 63 bags of silver, one bag of platinum bars, eight bags of gold rings and 207 bags and containers of Nazi loot that included valuable artwork.
The origins of the first ratlines are connected to various developments in Vatican-Argentine relations before and during World War II. [7] As early as 1942, the Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Luigi Maglione – evidently at the behest of Pope Pius XII – contacted an ambassador of Argentina regarding that country's willingness to accept European Catholic immigrants in a timely manner ...
[84] [85] Following the death of a diver in the lake in 1963—his two companions on the lake included "a former Nazi secret agent and ... a German business man mentioned in connection with counterfeit gold coins"—the Austrian government undertook a month-long search of the lake, during which they recovered more boxes of notes.
The German spoken around Llanquihue Lake gave origin to a dialect called Lagunen-deutsch, a local variant of Alemañol. [ 35 ] The word for blackberry , a ubiquitous plant in southern Chile, is murra instead of the ordinary Spanish word mora and zarzamora from Valdivia to the Chiloé Archipelago and some towns in the Aysén Region . [ 1 ]