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Aside from the prominent perpetrators such as Adolf Eichmann, Josef Mengele or Klaus Barbie, there were numerous other cases of Nazis and Nazi sympathizers from Germany and Austria who ended up in Latin America after 1945. Their life trajectories, professional activities, and contacts to local elites in their new homes have hardly been subject to systematic research to date. Their new lives in Latin America, their careers e.g. as diplomats, secret service agents or scientists are therefore a main focus of this volume. The biographies of these people and their networks are woven into the larger political, social, and scientific contexts of postwar Europe and Latin America, especially in the early Cold War period."...its most notable achievement is shedding light on lesser known figures: scientists, university professors, government officials, diplomats, spies, arms dealers, businessmen, and even amateur Nazi hunters in South America." Ernesto Bohoslavsky, Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, April 2025

Linda Erker, Ph.D. (2018), University of Vienna, is Assistant Professor at the Department of Contemporary History. She has taught and published on the history of universities under fascisms; persecution and global migration of scholars in the 20th century and the history of National Socialism and its aftermath.

Raanan Rein, Ph.D. (1991), Tel Aviv University, is the Elías Sourasky Professor of Latin American and Spanish History. Former Vice President of this university, Rein is a member of Argentina's National Academy of History and author of numerous books.