Interesting Links for 31-03-2016

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[hano]

Just to add to the Skorzeny story. It's not so unusual. Legend has it, a lot of Waffen SS ended up in the French Foreign Legion after WW2. Specifically the regiment that was wiped out almost to a man at Dien Bien Phu in 1954, the battle that saw the end of French power in Vietnam. There's an irony there somewhere.

[danieldwilliam]

Perhaps the last time German soldiers brought French imperial aspirations to an end.

[bart_calendar]

My understanding was that many countries, the US included, were more than happy to hire Nazis who had useful skills.

In fact, I'm pretty sure that one of the main jobs of the U.S. Naval Intelligence Service at the end of WWII was to find Germans who were particularly good at killing and torture and extracting information because we wanted to put them to work in South America.

Lots of curiously blonde people in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay today where there were almost none 100 years ago.

[cartesiandaemon]

Yeah, I'm not at all surprised. I watched Doctor Strangelove :)

But OTOH, it wouldn't be surprising if Israel had more of a "execute for war crimes first, ask questions afterward" attitude to Nazi defectors than most other countries either.

[threegoldfish]

Whole lotta German restaurants in Huntsville, Alabama, home of Redstone Arsenal.

[helflaed]

Part of the reason why so many Nazis went to live in South America (apart from the obvious appeal of living under a sympathetic government) was that there were already a lot of Germans living there, descendants of 19th century settlers.

So there were established familiar communities of people who already spoke their language. Also the new arrivals wouldn't be obvious outsiders. Heck if you picked the right place you could even find a town where they spoke your dialect...