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RE: My trip to Atacama - the driest place in the world || #club5050
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.
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.