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German Argentines (German: Deutschargentinier, Spanish: germano-argentinos) are Argentines of German ancestry as well as German citizens living in Argentina. They are descendants of Germans who immigrated to Argentina from Germany and most notably from other places in Europe such as the Volga region and the Banat .
There are about 500,000 German speakers and around 320,000 Volga-Germans alone, of which 200,000 hold German citizenship. This makes Argentina one of the countries with the largest number of German speakers and is second only in Latin America to Brazil. In the 1930s there were about 700,000 people of German descent. [28]
The German language and culture have traditionally been more important than the country of origin, as the basis of the ethnic and national consciousness of the Germans (Germany as a political entity was founded as late as 1871). Therefore, the political places from which these people or their ascendants emigrated to Argentina may vary.
2.4 South America. 2.5 Asia. 2.6 ... People of German ancestry form an important minority group in several ... There are about 500,000 German-speakers in Argentina, ...
Due to the German diaspora, many other countries with sizable populations of (mostly bilingual) German L1 speakers include Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, Canada, Chile, Paraguay, as well as the United States. [21] However, in none of these countries does German or a German variety have any legal status.
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Under President Juan Peron following 1945, some Nazi officials emigrated to South America to avoid prosecution. Those who lived in Argentina included Adolf Eichmann, Josef Mengele, Aribert Heim, Eduard Roschmann and "Bubi" Ludolf von Alvensleben. [6] In 2020, it was reported that 12,000 Nazis fled to Argentina during and after World War II. [7] [8]
German emigrants to Argentina (2 C, 35 P) J. Argentine people of German-Jewish descent (1 C, 30 P) S. ... Pages in category "Argentine people of German descent"