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[โ€“] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

To be fair, perhaps they were descended from liberals who left during the Biedermeier era (1848-1918), or Anabaptists seeking religious freedom or something. Though Nazis is a probable option.

[โ€“] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago

it's both, they have pre WW2 germans and obviously post ww2 nazis.

Fun fact : Josef Mengele successfully fled to the southern cone, and after a while, stopped going under a fake name and started traveling around under his real name, got married in Uruguay, and died by accidental drowning in fucking brazil.

He fucking got away with all the unethical bollocks he did during the holocaust. He even went back to germany on fucking holdiay UNDER HIS REAL NAME.