air travel and
Battle of the River Plate
Brazil and
Down Argentine Way (film)
emigrants from Axis countries
eugenics and
El Grupo and
Jewish migration to
military junta (1976–83)
Mothers of the Disappeared of the Plaza de Mayo (Madres)
music
Nazi money laundering
Nazi Ratlines and
oil industry
Operation Bolívar
Aryanism. See also eugenics
Ávila Camacho, Manuel
Aztec Eagles (Mexican Air Force Squadron 201)
Aztec people
Baker, Walter
Balanchine, George
Barbie, Klaus
Barnegat (seaplane tender)
Barth, Theodor
Baruch, Bernard
Batista, Fulgencio
Becker, Johannes Siegfried “Sargo”
Benitez, Manuel
Benz, Karl Friedrich
Bernardi, Patricia
Bezerra da Costa, Vicência
Biddle, Francis
Bismarck (German battleship)
Blair, Mary
Bolívar, Simón
Bolivia
Barbie’s escape to
delegation to Évian Conference
emigrants from Axis countries
LAB (Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano) airline
Mengele’s escape to
oil industry
Boskovics, Hildegard
Bosques Saldívar, Gilberto
Braden, Spruille
Brazil
Battle of the Atlantic and
brasilidade (shared identity)
Brazilian Expeditionary Force (BEF)
coup of 1964
Department of Political and Social Order (DEOPS)
Department of Press and Propaganda
Disney films and
El Grupo and
espionage and
Flying Down to Rio (film)
German-Brazilian community
Integralistas (“Greens”)
Japanese-Brazilian community
Jewish emigration to
mapping of
Nazi Ratline and
oil industry
Operation Bolívar
Panair do Brasil (airline)
Plan Rubber (Joint Basic Plan for the Occupation of Northern Brazil)
Rockefeller, Nelson, and
rubber industry
Santos-Dumont Airport
Sindicato Condor (airline)
Smoking Cobras (Brazilian Expeditionary Force)
teuto-brasileiros (Germans of Brazil)
Washington Accords (Brazil–United States Political-Military Agreement)
Welles, Orson, and
Bryk, Mordechay
Buddhism
Cabeza de Vaca, Álvar Núñez
Caffery, Jefferson
Caggiano, Antonio
Calles, Plutarco
Canaris, Wilhelm
Cárdenas del Río, Lázaro
nationalization of oil industry
Careaga, Ana Maria
Careaga, Esther
Carnos, Sofia Wolff
Cartier, Louis
Casement, Roger
Castellanos, José Arturo
Castello Branco, Humberto de Alencar
Catholic Church
Judaism and
Liberation Theology
Nazi Ratline and
Vatican Refugee Organization
Cavalieri, Pedro
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Chabloz, Jean-Pierre
Chagas, Nilo
Chagas disease
Chesterton, G. K.
Chile
air travel and
coup of 1973
German military training
limpieza de sangre (cleansing of the blood) and
music
National Intelligence Directorate (DINA)
Operation Bolívar and
Rauff, Walter, and
Villa Grimaldi
Churchill, Winston
Clark, Mark
Clemm, Karl von
Clemm, Werner von
coffee industry
Colegio Aleman (German school in Latin America)
Colombia
emigrants from Axis countries
Jewish migration to
oil industry
Panama’s secession from
rubber industry
SCADTA (airline)
Colonia Dignidad (Dignity Colony; forced-labor camp)
Columbus, Christopher
Conference of American States
Coolidge, Calvin
Copland, Aaron
Coppola, Giovanni
Corbett, P. Scott
Cortés, Hernán
Costa Rica
Crittenberger, Willis
Crosby, Bing
Crystal City Internment Camp
Cuba
da Cruz, Eronides João
Daimler, Gottlieb
Daniels, Josephus
Davis, William Rhodes
Daye, Pierre
Deutsche Zeitung (Central American German-language newspaper)
Dewoitine, Émile
Díaz, Porfirio
Diels, Rudolf
Disney, Walt
Disney films
Der Fuerher’s Face
Saludos Amigos
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
South of the Border with Disney
The Three Caballeros
Doenitz, Karl
Doheny, Edward L.
Dominican Republic
Donovan, “Wild Bill”
Draganović, Krunoslav
Ducceschi, Manrico “Pippo”
Dulles, Allen
Eagle (oil tanker)
Earhart, Amelia
Ecuador
emigrants from Axis countries
oil industry
SEDTA (airline)
Edward D. White (Liberty ship)
Egidy, Moritz von
Eichmann, Adolf
Einstein, Albert
Emmerson, John K.
Engels, Albrecht “Alfredo”
espionage
Allies espionage
Axis espionage
Bletchley Park
CIA
double agents
Enigma Machines
FBI
MAGIC cryptography project
MI5
MI6
microdot technology
Operation Bolívar
OSS
secret map
Ethiopia
eugenics
Eurotank
extraordinary rendition
Fairbanks, Douglas, Jr.
Falkland Islands
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). See also Hoover, J. Edgar
Feuerlicht, Maurice
Fleming, Ian
Fly, James Lawrence
Flynn, Errol
Ford, Henry
Ford, John
Ford Motor Company
Fordlandia
Forsyth, Frederick
France
air travel
invasion and occupation of
Nazi collaborators
Vichy government
Francis, Pope (Jorge Mario Bergoglio)
Franco, Francisco
Frank, Anne
Frank, Otto
Frank, Waldo
Frenz, Helmut
Freude, Rodolfo
Friedman, Max Paul
Fuenzalida, Samuel
Fuldner, Carlos
Galapagos Islands
Gallardo, Reynaldo
Gardel, Carlos
Geneva Conventions
genocide
genocidios (perpetrators of genocide)
Holocaust
Gerchunoff, Alberto
Germany
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Abwehr (secret service)
air travel
Brazilian Integralism and
espionage
German-Brazilian community
German-Guatemalan community
Germans in detention camps 136–38
Luft Hansa
Luftwaffe
Milchkühe (“milk cow” supply submarines)
National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP)
Nuremberg Statutes
oil industry and
Operation Bolívar
rubber industry and
Todt Organization
U-boats
Vertrauensmann (V-man)
Wehrmacht
Getty, John Paul
Goebbels, Joseph
Goñi, Uki
Goodwill Ambassadors
Goodyear, Charles
Gothic Line
Gowen, William
Goyeneche, Juan Carlos
Graf Zeppelin
Grandin, Greg
Great Britain
air travel
Ark Royal (aircraft carrier)
Battle of the Atlantic
British Security Coordination (BSC)
Clement (tramp steamer)
Double-Cross System
espionage
Falklands and
HMS Ajax
HMS Exeter
oil industry
Radio Security Service
rubber industry
Green, Harry T. S.
Greene, Graham
Groutman, Benjamin
“Grupo, El”. See also Disney, Walt
Guatemala
coup of 1954
Dos Erres massacre (1982)
German-Guatemalan community
Jewish migration to
rubber industry
Guevara, Che
Guevara Lynch, Ernesto
Guggenberger, Friedrich
Guggenheim, Hans
Gurcke family
Halperin, Maurice
Hansen, Gusti
Harwood, Henry
Hasson, Yaacov
Hayashi, Kashiro
Hayashi, Thomas
Hayworth, Rita
Hearst, William Randolph
Heinemann, William
Hemingway, Ernest
Heydrich, Reinhard
Hidalgo, Miguel
Hier, Marvin
Higashide, Seiichi
Himmler, Heinrich
Hirsch, Maurice de
Hitler, Adolf
admiration for
Ardeatine massacre and
assassination attempts
on Brazilians
Catholic Church and
Davis, William Rhodes, and
Disney films and
espionage and
eugenics and
“fatherland” of
genocide and
“Night and Fog” decree (Nacht-und-Nebel-Erlass)
oil industry and
Perón, Juan, and
Hochschild, Moritz
Holocaust
Auschwitz death camp
Majdanek death camp
Sobibór death camp
Treblinka death camp
Hoover, J. Edgar
Canaris, Wilhelm, and
capture of Lüning
fighting “enemy within”
LATI (Linee Aeree Transcontinentali Italiane) and
Operation Bolívar and
on Perón
on Popov
Stephenson, William, and
Hudal, Alois
Hull, Cordell
Hyde, H. Montgomery
Inquisition
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
International Congress Against War and Fascism
internment
Algiers (Louisiana) camp
of Americans by Japan
Crystal City (Texas) Camp
Gitterkrankheit (fence sickness)
Stringtown (Oklahoma) camp
isolationism. See also “America First” movement
Israel
Italo-Ethiopian War (1935–40)
Italy
Black Brigade
Brazilians in
Gothic Line
internment of Italian-Americans
invasion of
LATI (Linee Aeree Transcontinentali Italiane)
Nazi Ratline and
oil industry
Racial Laws (1938–43)
Schloss Labers
Jacaré, Manoel
Japan
air travel and
espionage and
Japanese-Brazilian community
Japanese-Mexican community
Japanese-Peruvian community
Manchuria, invasion of
oil industry and
rubber industry and
Japanese, capture and internment of
Jara, Joan
Jara, Victor
Jews
Joske, Ernest
Juarez, Benito
Kage, Augusto
Kaiser, Henry
Kalinowski, Ingo
Kamisato, Cheiko
Kamisato, Kami
Kappler, Herbert
Kehl, Renato
Keitel, Wilhelm
Kenedy, Mifflin
Kenedy Alien Detention Center
Kennedy, John F.
Kertzer, David
Kesselring, Albert
Kikshi, Hijime
Kissinger, Henry
Knoetzsch, Martin
Koch, Charles
Koch, David
Koch, Fred
Korda, Alexander
Korda, Zoltán
Kruger, Bernhard
Kruger, Hilda
Kuhn, Fritz
Lagrou, René
Langsdorff, Hans Wilhelm
Laredo Brú, Federico
las Casas, Bartolomé de
League of Nations
Lear, John
Lend-Lease program
Letelier, Orlando
Lewis, John L.
Liberation Theology
Lilienthal, Otto
Lombardi, Lino
limpieza de sangre (cleansing of the blood)
Lindbergh, Charles
Liotta, Aurelio
Loewe, Max
Long, Breckinridge
Luce, Henry
Lüning, Heinz August
Maia, Lupércio Freire
malaria
Malaya
Manchuria
Mandel, George
Mangione, Jerre
Maoki family
Martins, Herivelto
Mascarenhas de Moraes, João Baptista
Matsumoto family
Mendes, Antonio
Mendes, Francisco “Chico”
Mendes, Sebastiao
Mengele, Joseph
Mexican-American War
Mexican Revolution
Mexico
Board of Conciliation and Arbitration
bracero program
Constitution (1917)
declaration of war on Axis powers
Gold Shirts (Acción Revolucionaria Mexicana)
Mexican Air Force Squadron 201 (Aztec Eagles)
oil industry
Olmecs
Pemex
Supreme Court
Tampico Incident
World War II and
Millington-Drake, Eugen
Miranda, Aurora
Miranda, Carmen
Mochizuki, Carmen Higa
Moffitt, Ronni
Monroe Doctrine
Morrow, Dwight
Munthe, Axel
Mussolini, Benito
Naganuma family
Nairne, Edward
NASA Landsat camera
National City Bank of New York (later Citibank)
Nazi Ratlines (escape routes)
Newbery, Jorge
Nicolaus, Georg “Max”
Niebuh
r, Dietrich
Nixon, Richard
Nottebohm, Karl
Nottebohm, Kurt
NS-Frauenschaft (National Socialist Women’s League)
Nuremberg trials
Odessa File, The (Forsyth)
Office of Strategic Services (OSS)
R&A (Research and Analysis)
Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs (CIAA) (Rockefeller Office)
oil industry
British International Petroleum Company (later BP Oil)
nationalization of Mexican oil industry
Royal Dutch Shell
Sinclair Oil
Standard Oil Company
Oliveira, Wolney
Otelo, Grande (Sebastião Bernardes de Souza Prata)
Pan Am Clipper (flying boat)
Pan American Airways
Pan-Americanism
Panama
air travel
rubber industry
U.S. military camps and installations
Panama Canal
Panzerschiff (armored ship). See also Admiral Graf Spee
Patiño, Simón Iturri
Patton, George
Pavelić, Ante
Pearson, Weetman Dickinson
Pereira, Mario
Pereira, Miguel
Pereira, Nunes
Pereira Pinto, Alfonso
Perón, Juan
Pershing, John J.
Peru
earthquake of 1940
Japanese-Peruvian community
Jewish emigrants to
oil industry
Panoptico prison
rubber industry
Philippines
Phillips, Wallace
Pike, Tommy
Pinochet, Augusto
Pius XI, Pope
Pius XII, Pope
Plate River. See Rio de la Plata (Plate River)
Popov, Duŝko “Tricycle”
Portugal
Latin American history and
Nazis seeking refuge in
Operation Bolívar and
Pan Am New York–Lisbon route
Prado, Manuel
Prado, Nery
Preger, Alexandre
prejudice
eugenics and
racial prejudice
Prestes, Luís Carlos
Prestes, Olga Benário
Priebke, Erich
Protocols of the Elders of Zion, The
Puerto Rico
Q’eqchi’ Maya people
Queirós, Ademar de
racial prejudice
racism
Ratlines (Rattenlinien)
Rauff, Walter
Reagan, Ronald
Reichsbank
Reiss, Curt
Retelsdorf, Carlos “Glenn”
Ribbentrop, Joachim von
Richard Caswell (Liberty ship)
Riefenstahl, Leni
Rio de la Plata (Plate River)
Battle of the River Plate
name of
Rivera, Diego
Rockefeller, Nelson
Goodwill Ambassadors
Rockefeller Office (Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, CIAA)
Rodriguez, Alberto “Beto”
Rodriguez, Catalina
Rodriguez, Rolando
Rommel, Erwin
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
British intelligence and
Casablanca Conference
Évian Conference
FBI and
fear of fascist subversion in Latin America
fireside chats
Good Neighbor policy
on Italians
Jewish resettlement and
Mexico and
Monterey meeting with Ávila
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