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The Tango War

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by Mary Jo McConahay


  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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