max1461:

transgenderer:

i feel like calling the kids of nazis who moved to south america fake members of the country their parents moved to is not a good look. 1) naziism isnt some hereditary curse, and 2) children of immigrants have just as authentic a claim to that country. patrimony is fake.

Yeah I’ve seen this argument recently and it’s quite bad. Even worse considering that, in a least one case, it was merely being insinuated that someone was a descendant of Nazis by virtue of them being a South American with a German surname, ignoring the huge amount of European immigration to South America in the 19th century. Like, one of the things any leftist should know about Latin America generally is how ethnically diverse it is, acting like German-heritage South American = Nazi strikes me as sort of a give away that you haven’t done your research and are still marred by weird nationalism-flavored outgroup homogeneity bias that characterizes the thought of your political opponents so heavily.

As for actual descendants of Nazis, I think the most you might say is that they may have inherited certain ideologies from their (grand)parents like anyone else. The main difference is that, like, most people’s racist grandparents weren’t involved in mass murder so you might wish that they would take a look at that and reject Nazi ideology more strongly than the average person, ya know that feels like what you’d want to happen, but sadly that may not be the case.

Yeah, because they didn’t have significant overseas colonies of their own (which was what WWII was really about), the Axis countries had all sent a lot of emigrants to South America before the war was even on the horizon. Part of the “Nazis to South America” thing was because there was such a German community already, it was kinda the “no official colonies of our own” equivalent of how many “loyalist” colonists left for Canada and British colonies in the Caribbean after the American Revolution