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Indifferent Sanctuary: German-Speaking Refugees and Exiles in Argentina, 1933-1945

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Ronald C. Newton
Ronald C. Newton*
Affiliation:
Department of History, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia
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Between 1933 and the end of World War II, Argentina became the home of some 43,000 Jewish refugees from Nazism, almost all of them of German, Austrian, or West European origin. Measured against the country's total population, 13 million in 1931, 16 million according to the 1947 census, Argentina received more Jewish refugees per capita than any other country in the world except Palestine (Wasserstein, 1979: 7,45). This did not occur by design of the Argentine government; on the contrary, its immigration policies became interestingly restrictive as the years of the world crisis wore on.

In practice, however, Argentina was unable to patrol effectively its long borders with the neighboring republics of Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay, Brazil, and Uruguay. The overseas consuls of these nations, especially the first three, did a brisk and lucrative trade in visas and entry permits for persons desperate to escape the Nazi terror.

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Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 24 , Issue 4 , November 1982 , pp. 395 - 420
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Copyright © University of Miami 1982

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