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Many Catholic Volga Germans chose South America as their new homeland because the official religion in Brazil and Argentina was Roman Catholic. The ratio of Catholic to Protestant Volga Germans in South America was 7 to 1. The opposite was true in Russia, Protestant Volga Germans outnumbered Catholics by about 2 to 1.
Germans, mostly from outside the borders of Germany, in the rest of Latin America, especially: German-Puerto Ricans (and a similar community in the Virgin Islands). Heavy concentration of German, Austrian and Swiss descendants in Southern Chile. (German Chileans). Peru, not many are German speakers, see German Peruvian.
German Conquistadors in Venezuela. The Welsers’ Colony, Racialized Capitalism, and Cultural Memory. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press. Moses, Bernard (1914). "Chapter IV, The Welser Company in Venezuela". The Spanish Dependencies in South America. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 57– 79. Townsend, Mary Evelyn (1930).
Jahrhunderts", published in Leipzig, 1911, Tannenberg outlines the principle of partition of Central and South American between the great powers, to Germany belonging the subtropical part facing the Atlantic Ocean: South America will provide a space of colonization where our immigrants will keep their language and autonomy.
Some German immigrants moved further south to places such as Puyuhuapi in the Aysén region (settled by Sudeten Germans from present-day Czech Republic); [8] Sudeten German settlers from Broumov (called Braunau in German and located in present-day Czech Republic) also stayed and lived in Puerto Varas, wherein the village was called Nueva ...
The German government states that to this date, there is "no evidence to support or invalidate Wiesenthal's claim or the more general allegation that the Colonia Dignidad or its legal successors was a place of refuge for Nazi criminals. [39] The Nazi underground in South America was established some time before World War II.
SCADTA, a Colombian-German air transport corporation which was established by German expatriates in 1919, was the first commercial airline in the Americas. [ 15 ] By the mid of the 18th century, German businessmen arrived to Barranquilla in Atlántico , and El Carmen de Bolívar , in Bolívar , with the purpose of exploiting tobacco.
The German colonization in Rio Grande do Sul was a large-scale and long-term project of the Brazilian government, motivated initially by the desire to populate the south of Brazil, ensuring the possession of the territory, threatened by Spanish neighbors. In addition, the search for Germans intended to recruit mercenary soldiers to reinforce ...