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RE: My trip to Atacama - the driest place in the world || #club5050
I didn't know that the Germans were developing and colonizing lands in South America? I've never heard anything about it. I thought they only fought in Africa.
It seems surprising to me that in such places, which we consider "hot countries", there can be negative temperatures at night. Very large temperature differences.
I have been in a similar situation during multi-day fishing trips. It's very hot during the day, I thought the night would be warm, I didn't take warm clothes with me, and then at night I was cold and had to sleep very close to the campfire.
Chile is something very far away and out of reach for me and my friends. The more interesting it is to learn about such countries from specific living people.
Thanks.
Germans did not colonize directly any land in Latin America but currently more Chileans mentiones German origin than Spanish (in fact it's always mixed and 90% of them has Spanish blood as well). It's because when the country got independent in XIXth century, Chilean government was inviting people from Europe to help to populate the south and there was this guy (or, like in Araucanía -"make it more white", change the proportion of Europeans to native people to enslave them more effectively... Yeah, awful...).
Two regions were totally populated by Germans - it was the idea of some politician with the German origins.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Chileans
Here it turns out how it was. I didn't know about it. Thanks for the information.
I know that after the Second World War, many Germans fled to Argentina.
And I also saw a report that there are Russian settlements of Old Believers in Argentina.
Yes, you are totally right. Slavic ancestors are keeping together in Argentina and there is the most of them in region Missiones. Germans too, naturally - Nazi refugees after the lost war migrated mostly to Argentina and Paraguay.