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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.
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 ...
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.
Chile was the first country in South America to sign a trade agreement with India, in 1956. ... See Chile–Germany relations. Chile has an embassy in Berlin and ...
[5] [1] Germany attempted to promote Chile, a country that was heavily influenced by Germany, [6] into a regional counterweight to the United States. [1] Indeed, Britain and Germany managed through Chile to have Ecuador deny the United States a naval base in the Galápagos Islands. [1]
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.
Germany, which is the EU's most populous country and has the continent's biggest economy, is often perceived by its European neighbors as overpowering and too dominant in the 27-country bloc.
In contrast, Argentina and Chile received very little military aid, because for most of the war neither accepted American terms accompanying the aid that they sever relations with the Axis powers. Peru received some aid, but by 1943 the west coast of South America had lost all strategic significance, being so far away from the war's main ...