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German-Chilean relations are foreign relations between Germany and Chile. Around 12,300 kilometers separate Chile and Germany but both nations still share a wide range of bilateral relations. Over the course of the last 150 years many Germans have settled in Chile for several different reasons.
See Chile–Germany relations. Chile has an embassy in Berlin and consulates-general in Frankfurt, Hamburg and Munich. Germany has an embassy in Santiago. Greece: 1 July 1941 See Chile–Greece relations. Chile has an embassy in Athens. Greece has an embassy in Santiago. Ireland: 1 June 1992: See Chile–Ireland relations. Chile has an embassy ...
In February 2014, the U.S. government officially announced that it had added Chile to the Visa Waiver Program, enabling all Chilean citizens to travel the United States without payment of a fee beginning in May and making Chile the only nation in Latin America to possess such a privilege, one usually afforded to only the closest allies and ...
Nazism was supported by some in the German Lutheran Church hierarchy in Chile. A local chapter of the Nazi Party was started in Chile. [10] During World War II, many German Jews fled to Chile before and during the Holocaust. For example, the families of Mario Kreutzberger and Tomás Hirsch came to Chile during this time.
Henry Kissinger’s influence in Latin America is a controversial aspect of his legacy following his death at 100, and his role in the Vietnam War helped spark the Chicano movement.
Chile: See Chile–Germany relations. Chile has an embassy in Berlin, consulates-general in Frankfurt, Hamburg, and Munich and honorary consulates in Bremen, Cologne and Stuttgart. [70] [71] Germany has an embassy in Santiago and honorary consulates in Antofagasta, Concepción, La Serena, Puerto Montt, Punta Arenas, Temuco, Valdivia, and Vina ...
In 1900, Chile became the first country in Latin America to enforce a system of compulsory military service, whereby training, initially five to eighteen months (Germany: three years), took place in zones of divisional organization in order to create a solid military structure that could be easily doubled with well-trained and combat-ready ...
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