Argentina Is Nazi-Land

Buenas noches, mein Führer!

"Yeah, I met a fella down here in Brazil with lots of fantastic war stories. He's ninety-two, bitter, and speaks with a German accent. You do the math." ^note  Fun fact: Brazil had a sizable population of German immigrants even before WWII (as well as Japanese, and especially Italians), many of which served in the Brazilian Army during the war (in which Brazil sided with the allies).

— Ed Alzate, Last Man Standing (2011), "The Fight"

Not all stories involving Those Wacky Nazis are set in World War II. Sometimes they are set in the aftermath or even the present. Some Nazis have escaped from defeat and/or trial, and are lurking in a hidden base laying plans to restore the Reich and Take Over the World (as if a few guys in a hidden lab had better chances than a whole country). Or in more realistic stories, they're just trying to evade justice and fondly remembering what fun they had in the camps. Perhaps the hero, or a Nazi Hunter, is chasing such fugitives; perhaps they have treasures, perhaps some Lost Technology or MacGuffin, or perhaps they simply need bringing to justice. Many times, said Nazis are hidden in Argentina or elsewhere in South America.

It should be noted that this trope is not meant to depict Argentinians/other South Americans as Nazis. Even in the 40s, Argentina had a high German-Argentine diaspora, and Nazis mostly relocated there because it would be easiest to blend in, since there was less risk in just keeping their German surname and claiming to simply be of German descent if questioned than going out of their way to change it to something else, as someone who just so happens to be getting a German surname changed after World War II would raise suspicion.

Having actual WWII fugitives hanging around in the present is becoming a Dead Horse Trope (except in period pieces) for obvious reasons — any survivors nowadays (including former members of the Hitler Youth, who are now in their nineties) are going to be pretty ancient without some Nazi Superscience (or Nazi Necromancy) to keep them fresh or spruce them up. However, they could still be used as Back Story, to give a run-of-the-mill Evil Scheme that unmistakable Nazi flavour. Or have their children, grandchildren or followers raised in "the faith".

For details on the real-life accuracy of this trope, see the analysis subpage.

Sometimes the escaped Nazis are hiding in Antarctica, or on the Moon.

Subtrope of Run for the Border.

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Examples:

Anime & Manga

• In Hellsing, the Nazi Millennium organization went into hiding in South America after the War, preparing an army of artificial vampires to invade the UK at the end of the manga.
• Lupin III: The First: A circulating picture showcases an elderly Hitler living in Brazil. The man himself appears at the end, much to the delight of Gerard. Subverted when it turns out that he was Lupin in disguise and not only was Hitler's death confirmed at the end of World War 2, but that picture was planted by Interpol as bait.
• Strike Witches lacks any sort of Nazi-analogue, but pokes fun at this in side material that makes mention of a "Neue Karlsland" (New Germany), which is apparently the Strike Witches version of Argentina, where much of the populace of the series' Germany-analogue was evacuated to when the country fell to the Neuroi in 1940.

Comic Books

• When Captain America returned in The Avengers #4, they made the retroactive flashback of the plane, that Bucky was holding to while Captain America fell into the ocean and froze. That plane was part of a plot of Baron Heinrich Zemo (retroactively pointed as the archnemesis of Captain America and Bucky in WWII). What did Zemo do after the war? He stayed hidden in an unexplored jungle in South America and led the Masters of Evil against the Avengers until he died in a landslide while fighting Captain America.
• In Catwoman #19, Catwoman heads to South America to retrieve a painting from an ex-Nazi who had later served with the KGB and had been allowed to retire with a handful of stolen artworks. When the elderly Nazis see Selina, they think she's a "Bolshevik"; it's implied that when they see anyone violent who isn't them, they suspect that person of Bolshevism.^note That said, they are in a Banana Republic, and Marxist guerrillas are shown to be a constant problem.
  Catwoman: I'm not even registered to vote, Granddad.
• The map of the world in DC Comics' Flashpoint alternate timeline unusually uses Brazil, but the map appears to indicate all of South America, more or less: "Brazil (Nazi-Occupied)".
• In G.I. Joe: Special Missions #2, the Joes are sent to South America to extract an aging Nazi, who is the only one who knows the details of a planeload of nerve gas frozen in a glacier, from a heavily fortified compound in the jungle.
• Hellboy's Herman von Klempt hid in Brazil and continued his experiments.
• In the non-canon Hellboy/Batman/Starman crossover, the neo-Nazi Knights of October have an outpost in the Amazon jungle from which they attempt to summon an elder god.
• In Hitman (1993), when Tiegel's Nazi Grandpa dies, his old comrades come "from South America" for his funeral.
• "River of Ghosts", the finale of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen's Nemo spinoff trilogy, concerns what is essentially the plot of The Boys from Brazil with a number of added wrinkles: Mengele and Martin Bormann are in a secret compound in the Amazon raising a gaggle of clones of Adenoid Hynkel and Ayesha, who had been an ally to Hynkel and the Axis during the war. Also involved is Dr. Heinz Goldfoot, who is funding this operation by creating Fembots to either star in lurid porn magazines or be shipped to some suburb in Connecticut in crates marked "kitchen appliances".
• A minor antagonist in Marshal Law is Hitler Hernandez, who is a descendant of Nazi war criminals who fled to South America and believes himself to be the reincarnation of Adolf Hitler.
• Inverted in Alan Moore's Marvelman run, where the new backstory for Dr. Gargunza has him native to Latin America (Mexican by birth, attaining prominence in Brazilian gangs) and willingly going to Nazi Germany as an adult. Even then, he doesn't do anything significant for the Reich before defecting to British Intelligence, where he gets up to all his real mischief. It's played semi-straight after that, with him "retiring" to Paraguay after his superhuman project gets shut down by Her Majesty's Government; the henchmen he's set up with there are by all appearances born-and-bred Nazis, one even calling Marvelman "Ubermensch" in awe.
• Nero: This comic strip has Adolf Hitler hiding on an unknown island somewhere twice. In "De Man Met Het Gouden Hoofd" ("The Man With The Golden Head") (1947), Hitler is discovered inside an igloo on the North Pole. In "Het Knalgele Koffertje" ("The Very Yellow Little Briefcase") (1958-1959), he is living on an exotic island somewhere. Though clearly not Latin America, let alone Argentina, it still deserves a mention for being one of the earliest pop culture references to Hitler still being alive somewhere.
• One The Punisher/Wolverine crossover has the two independently investigate a criminal haven in the South American jungle. At one point, they find a bunch of blond muscleheads who worship a mummified corpse in Nazi garb. And if you still don't get it, Frank comments that you just add a little dirt on its upper lip and... Eventually, they escape, setting fire to the place in the process, with the cult's leader remaining to die in the flames.
• Requiem Vampire Knight: Otto is killed as an old Nazi hiding in Argentina by Rebecca's sister Sarah, sending him to Résurection. Specifically, Tierra del Fuego, where he likes to hunt. He even knew that several Jewish Nazi Hunters were on his tail in advance but stayed for the opportunity to kill them.
• In the Taskmaster mini-series, the Taskmaster ends up in a small South American town and is surprised to find the entire village dressed as Hitler (yes, even the women and children). The villagers are apparently waging endless war on each other trying to take over each other’s houses and constantly backstabbing the other villagers who ally with them. Turns out it was caused by a solution created by the same people who made the hatemonger that was dumped into the water supply. The solution was meant to quickly input Nazi beliefs into people to resurrect the Reich, but when it was spilled into the water supply, it ended up making everyone think they were Hitler.
• The climactic reveal of the Garth Ennis ‘’Unknown Soldier’’ miniseries: there was an arrangement where the US government would secret away Nazi high officials, including Hitler himself, to South America and help them set up a new Aryan state in exchange for German surrender and the defection of certain German scientists. Learning of this, and particularly that it only didn’t happen because of random chance (the Nazi officers who negotiated the plan were killed in a plane crash on the way back to Berlin), completely shattered the Unknown Soldier’s psyche.
• Retroactively used as Doctor Nemesis' "bus" in X-Men. After World War II, he spent decades in South America fighting the efforts of Nazi mad scientists to found the Fourth Reich (and more recently, the Fifth Reich). However, after he became too widely known in the insane-neo-Nazi-South-American-supervillain community, he decided to leave to help the X-Men. With science.

Fan Fiction

• In Knowledge is Power, the Death Eaters go into exile in Argentina, in possibly one of the strangest invocations of this trope ever.
• An Alternate History example with Timeline-191: After the End, a continuation of the Timeline-191 novel series, where many of the former Freedom Party members (that world's equivalent to Nazis) flee to nations like Rhodesia and South Africa.
• At the end of the World War 2 Era Uplifted Series, tens of thousands of National Socialists escape to Spain and Argentina following the collapse of the National Socialist regime at the hands of the quarian/Wehrmacht alliance. Under the leadership of Ernst Kaltenbrunner, they form a paramilitary organization known as Paladin Group and South America turns into their playground... a place where Nazi Hunters go to die.
• In Sixes and Sevens, Schmitt mentions that Zemo fled to Argentina to avoid the worst of Red Skull's wrath after the serum deformed him.

Film — Animated

• Referenced in Yellow Submarine. When the Chief Blue Meanie is defeated and asks where the Meanies should flee to, his flunky named "Max" suggests "Argentina?"

Film — Live Action

• In the final scene of Amen, the Doctor is preparing to catch a boat to Argentina with help from a Vatican cardinal.
• The Boys from Brazil (and the novel it was based on) are about a secret plot to raise clones of Hitler in, well, three guesses where. Though unlike the boys, Mengele is seen in Paraguay — his speculated location at the time of filming, and where he really went for some time. But in 1978, Mengele was really in Brazil, where he died a year later.
• In French film The Damned, the Nazis and collaborators who board a U-boat as the war is ending have a plan to sail to South America. Somewhat subverted in that once they get there, they find no help from the agents who were supposed to assist them.
• At the end of the French comedy film The Fuhrer Runs Amock, Hitler hides in South America dressed up as a stereotypical German girl.
• In The Money Pit, Tom Hanks' character is able to buy the house for a song from a lady whose husband turns out to have been Hitler's pool boy and had escaped to South America about three steps ahead of the Nazi hunters.
• Notorious, in a variant on the trope, has the daughter of a Nazi spy recruited to infiltrate an order of Nazi fugitives in post-war Brazil.
• Operation Finale is a dramatization of the Israeli mission to kidnap and extract Adolf Eichmann from Buenos Aires.
• In OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies, during an earlier mission taking place at the end of the World War II, in 1945, 117 must recover a suitcase from a Nazi flying to Buenos Aires.
• In OSS 117: Lost in Rio, 117 is sent to Brazil to obtain a list of French WWII collaborators from an old Nazi who's plotting to create a fifth Reich — because his fourth Reich attempt failed. His son disguises himself as a hippie.
• In Run for the Sun, Browne, an English traitor who broadcast propaganda for the Nazis during the war; his brother-in-law, Nazi war criminal Colonel Von Andre; and their Luftwaffe pilot Jan are hiding in an old hacienda in Central America. Mostly they are just hiding from justice, although Von Andre harbours hopes of one day returning to Germany.
• In Sorcerer, Marquez is a former Nazi hiding out in the village of Porvenir in an unnamed South American country.
• Star Wars has a version of this trope in the form of the Unknown Regions, which were secretly colonized by the Empire during the Galactic Civil War, so that when they lost to the illegal New Republic at the Battle of Jakku during the events of Empire's End, several diehard Imperials such as Commandant Brendol Hux and Grand Admiral Rae Sloane can go there and found what would later become the First Order.
• The Nazis in They Saved Hitler's Brain are hiding in the fictional South American country Mandoras.
• The 2013 Argentine movie Wakolda is framed around Josef Mengele's legendary stay in the Argentine city of Bariloche, in the early '60s. As the movie ends, Adolf Eichmann is captured by Mossad agents, and Mengele flees to Paraguay.
• In Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, the Golden Ticket holder from Paraguay^note whose nationality is Russian in the original book and Tim Burton's subsequent adaptation is revealed to be a fraud — a news photo shows him to be Martin Bormann, though in this continuity he's going by a Spanish name.
• In X-Men: First Class, Erik chases a Nazi to Villa Gesell, a city in Argentina. In the movie, it's an area of mountains and lakes, but the real Villa Gesell is a beach city, former hippie paradise.
  • And the barman used Mexican slang.

Literature

• The early Able Team novels had a Big Bad called Unomondo who was planning a neo-Nazi resurgence in South and Central America.
• Referenced in Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-45 by Max Hastings:
  Militarily, the fate of the Führer was incidental to the defeat of Germany, but he could hardly be permitted to depart into retirement in Buenos Aires.
• Banco features a variant. Papillon notes that Les Collaborateurs from Vichy France were flocking to Venezuela during his time in Caracas. He doesn't know the exact difference between actual French fascists and opportunistic collaborators and just lumps them all together as "Nazis" and won't associate with them.
• Challengers of the Unknown: The antagonists are a few hundred Nazis who fled to a South American country and want to conquer it for a new Reich.
• In Clive Cussler's Deep Six (1984), the US Press Secretary Sonny Thompson is rumored to have been an understudy of Joseph Goebbels.
• Clive Cussler's 1999 Dirk Pitt Adventures novel Atlantis Found has Nazi villains living in Argentina.
  • Incidentally, in Cussler's 2010 novel The Silent Sea, the totalitarian villains are actual Argentineans — the country has been taken over by fascists in-universe.
• Part of Konrad von Glöda's backstory in Icebreaker involves him escaping to Paraguay with other Nazis after fighting on the Finnish-Soviet frontier during WWII. He grew frustrated living there since most of his fellow fugitives weren't really into the nationalist socialist ideology anymore, and he decided to create the Fourth Reich himself.
• Andrei Lazarchuk/Mikhail Uspensky's Look into the Monsters Eyes plays with the trope. In it, there are two neighboring villages in Argentine, one Belorussian, and the other Bavarian, with the catch that the first was created by the survivors of a partizan group hunted by the men of the second during WWII. Both villages use this fact to bond over. And the real Nazi base is in the Antarctic, but by the time Adm. Baird's expedition finally gets there, it was already destroyed by their experiments with the occult.
• In The Onion's Our Dumb World, Argentina is described as a "beautiful Nazi retirement community". Apparently, it's filled with old Nazis who will not shut up about that one time they killed a little Jewish girl with the butt of their rifle, much to their grandchildren's annoyance.
• In Robert A. Heinlein's Rocket Ship Galileo, the protagonists discover a hidden Nazi base on the Moon.
• Suspicion plays with the trope. Dr. Nehle, who may or may not have been a Nazi, was in Chile during the war.
• Two Graves plays with this trope by putting Naziland in Brazil instead.

Live-Action TV

• An episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. had a HYDRA weapon discovered hidden in Peru, with mention that some HYDRA members fled to South America "with their Nazi friends".
• Bad Education has Ms. Pickwell fake her death to run off to Argentina to be with her 90-year-old "very cultured" and very rich, German boyfriend.
• The Bones episode The Nazi on the Honeymoon takes place in Buenos Aires. The "rapidly becoming a dead horse trope" aspect is acknowledged, as the Nazi in question was noted to have been clearly at death's door even before being murdered and was in his early nineties.
• The "Cafe Argentine" sketch from The Carol Burnett Show is this, condensed down to a single high-end restaurant. The fact that our main waiter opens up with a German accent, calls Carol Burnett and Lucille Ball's characters "Fraulein", runs the place like the SS, and the food is more in line with German cuisine than typical Argentinian should have given it away even before the manager shows up.
• In series 2 of Danger 5, set in the '80s, Hitler and the surviving Nazis have a pleasure boat in Argentina and are friends with Peron.
• Doctor Who gave "DeFlores" (strongly implied to be Martin Bormann, especially in the deleted scenes) and his group of neo-Nazis a South American headquarters in "Silver Nemesis".
• Doom Patrol (2019): Heinrich von Fuchs is a Nazi scientist who now resides in Paraguay. He claims it's for health reasons, but nobody buys this explanation.
• Frasier discovers Niles' Hispanic maid speaks German.
  Frasier: Apparently, her first job was working for a German family that turned up in Guatemala... [darkly] just after the war.
• A French Village: By the 60s, former SS officer Müller is living in Paraguay, working as a trainer of torturers with the Schneider dictatorship.
• A Get Smart episode centered around a quasi-Nazi KAOS prison camp in the wilds of New Jersey. Commandant Siegfried announces the imminent arrival of a noted officer "from our glorious fatherland...South America", known as "ze Beast of Buenos Aires!"
  • In "Ice Station Siegfried" we get this exchange:
  Agent 99: Are we alone on this assignment?
  General Christian: Oh no, 99, every nation in the world is joining forces in order to do what must be done to stop this madman. Russia is standing by with nuclear submarines.
  Colonel Quinton: Great Britain has offered us air cover.
  Admiral Crichton: South America has offered the knowledge of its top German scientists.
  Colonel Quinton: And Israel is making sandwiches for the trip.
• Herederos De Una Venganza: The members of the lodge are the descendants of Nazi fugitives.
• Hunters: In the season 1 finale it's revealed that Adolf Hitler AND Eva Braun are still alive and thriving in a private South American villa.
• Secret Army had a sequel, Kessler, featuring the title Nazi from Secret Army as a Villain Protagonist trying to keep one step ahead of Nazi-hunters in the years after 1945. Although he starts the series living under a false name in Germany, he's part of an organisation of former Nazis based in South America, including Martin Bormann and Joseph Mengele (who were both actually dead).
• In the FXX comedy Man Seeking Woman, Adolf Hitler shows up as a character and is the new boyfriend of main character Josh Greenberg's ex-girlfriend Maggie. Josh's friend Mike explains that Hitler has been hiding out in Argentina since the 1940s.
• Marple: In the adaption of At Bertram's Hotel a subplot was added about Nazis being smuggled to South America in return for their stolen art.
• In the M*A*S*H episode "A Smattering of Intelligence", Hawkeye and Trapper trick Col. Flagg and another intelligence officer (who was a friend of Trapper's) so that one thinks Frank is a communist while the other thinks he's a fascist. The fascist charges leveled at Frank include the claim that he helped sponsor a Martin Bormann telethon in Argentina.
• Invoked on Millennium (1996) during the second season's "Roosters," in which it is said that the SS secretly set up shell corporations in Argentina, Paraguay, and other "cooperating countries" as part of a secret project called "Odessa,"^note  Presumably related to Real Life Odessa with the express purpose of bringing down the Millennium Group.
• Mission: Impossible: In "The Legend", Briggs and Cinnamon impersonate a former Nazi (due for release from prison, but his release has been held back for this mission) and his daughter who are invited to attend a reunion of aged Nazi leaders at the South American home of Nazi fugitive Martin Bormann, who is planning the creation of the Fourth Reich.
  • It turns out that 'Bormann' is, in fact, a dummy (it's blatantly obvious to a modern viewer as soon as he appears, watching at a much higher resolution than a 1960s viewer would be) being used along with a pre-recorded impersonation by the organiser so he will get himself endorsed as Bormann's successor. So, Rollin Hand then impersonates Bormann, which causes their target to completely lose it.
• Monty Python's Flying Circus with the Mr Hilter and the North Minehead by-election sketch. In this sketch, Adolf Hitler, Joachim von Ribbentrop and Heinrich Himmler have all fled to the small town of Minehead, England. Since this is a parody, none of the men have changed out of their original clothes (including the uniforms worn by Hitler and Himmler), still speak with obvious German accents, and just changed one letter of their names to get "Mr. Hilter, Ron Vibbentrop, and Heinrich Bimmler".
• Mr And Mrs Smith: In episode 5, Toby tells a joke about traveling to Argentina and meeting Hitler.
• The Night Gallery pilot had a segment about a hunted fugitive death-camp officer in an unnamed Latin American country seeking escape in a museum painting.
• In The Office (US), Dwight Schrute has referred several times to his Nazi maternal grandfather, who lives in Argentina and was 103 at the time of the interview.
  Dwight: I wanted to visit him, but my travel visa was protested by the Shoah Foundation.
• The Outer Limits (1995): In "Tribunal", the time traveler Nicholas Prentice tells Aaron Zgierski that the historical records of his time show that the Nazi war criminal Karl Rademacher (alias Robert Greene) bought a one-way ticket to Argentina and was never heard from again. However, Aaron and Prentice make sure that he doesn't get the chance to go to Argentina by taking him to Auschwitz in 1944 dressed as a prisoner, which would account for him never being heard from again.
• Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In had a sketch during their 1968 Olympics episode where Dan Rowan interviewed an "Argentine Marathon Champion", who looked and acted an awful lot like Adolf Hitler.
• Referenced in a skit on Saturday Night Live which featured Kate McKinnon as German chancellor Angela Merkel having this to say about a certain segment that made up Donald Trump's supporters/voters:
  "In America, you call it the 'alt-right'. In Germany, we call it 'why grandpapa lives in Argentina now'."
  • In a later season coinciding with Donald Trump actually visiting Argentina for the G20 Summit:
    "I love Argentina! There's a bunch of old German guys that really get what I'm saying here!"
• In a perhaps unintended lampshading of this trope, Seinfeld's Soup Nazi moves to Argentina after Elaine discovers his recipes.
• Soap: In a Season One scene set in Ecuador, we see that Adolf Hitler is working as a waiter.
• The Twilight Zone (1959): In "Deaths-Head Revisited", Alfred Becker asks why Gunter Lütze has returned to Dachau as he was "quite safe down there in South America."
• White Collar at one point had a U-boat filled to the brim with Nazi treasure with an intended destination of somewhere in Argentina, but it sank before it could arrive.
• In The Windsors, the ghost of Edward VIII mentions he visited Hitler in the '60s in Argentina.
• Wonder Woman (1975): Foreshadowed in "Formula 407". The Nazis and Allies went to Argentina to convince a scientist to give his formula for super hard rubber to their respective side. Played straight in "Anschluss '77". In the 1970s, the remnants of the Nazi party are in Argentina literally cloning Hitler and armed with military weapons and tanks. One of which tries and fails to run over Wonder Woman in a scene that is on the shortlist of Moment of Awesome. She stops the tank dead in its tracks with her bare hands!

Music

• The lyrics of the "Hitler Rap" from the soundtrack of Mel Brooks' adaptation of To Be or Not to Be allude to this trope.
  "Auf wiedersehn! Good to see ya! I got a one-way ticket to Argentina!"
• Elvis Costello's "Less Than Zero" from My Aim Is True is a Take That! to onetime British fascist leader Oswald Mosley and makes this suggestion.
  They've got a thousand variations, every witness in a file
  Jenny puts on some coffee and she comes back with a smile
  She says, "I hear that South America is coming into style"
• This is the subject of The Fall's "Haf Found Bormann".
• Shaun Ryder alludes to the conspiracy theories in the lyrics to Black Grape's "Reverend Black Grape".
  "Old Pope he helped the Nazis/ To clean up all their messes/ In exchange for gold and paintings/ he gave them new addresses."
• New Model Army: "Vengeance" starts by describing a Nazi who fled to South America in '45 after committing atrocities in the camps. He's then told to live his life "in expectant fear" as some day he'll be made to pay.
• The Sex Pistols: The band (minus Johnny Rotten, who had already left) visited Brazil in 1978 to record a single, "Nobody Is Innocent", with fugitive British train robber Ronnie Biggs who lived there. The video material ended up in "The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle" (1979), where a man in a Nazi uniform can be seen in various scenes. According to the band it's supposed to be Martin Bormann (though looking nothing like him it all.)

Tabletop Games

• In the backstory of Damnation Decade, many fascist leaders escaped Faust at the close of the war and made it to Suramerico to be a source for adventure hooks.
• Delta Green gives us the remnants of the Karotechia, Hitler's occult warfare division of the Ahnenerbe. They're staked out on a plantation in the depths of the Amazon, usually work through modern neo-Nazis, and most of them have one foot in the grave - though, in an aversion of the "fading threat" bit, one of them's stayed young and immortal due to cannibalistic practices and may end up being the future of the group.
• In GURPS Technomancer, the Condor Group, comprising former SS magicians, essentially control Argentina behind the scenes after giving Eva Peron immortality.
• Illuminati has the South American Nazis.

Theater

• Productions of Evita often dress Juan Peron's underlings in Nazi-inspired garb; the song lyrics explicitly point out that most of these officers outright despised Eva because of her sympathy for the descamisados. Other Peron henchmen, however, are dressed as 1940s gangster types.
• The Producers:
  Franz Liebkind: Broadvay. Wait 'til they hear about this in Argentina! Ach, mein lieblings!

Video Games

• Almost a third part of Bloodrayne takes place in a hidden Nazi base in Argentina. Then again, another third takes place in Germany proper.
• Referenced in Hearts of Iron IV as an Easter Egg. If Hitler is deposed by a civil war, he is presumed dead. However, there is a small chance that he will reappear later in the game under a new, incredibly obvious alias. One of these scenarios is that he will become Señor Hitler, a fascist party leader in Argentina.
• In the I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream adventure game, Nimdok fled to Brazil to continue his experiments.
• The Disc-One Final Boss of TPS game El Matador is an ex-Nazi turned South American drug kingpin Helmut Koch, his island fortress includes a Nazi paraphernalia museum.
• Persona 2, set in a world where spreading rumours cause them to become reality, features a resurrected Adolf Hitler who exists thanks to a conspiracy theory that claims he survived the Second World War and escaped to Antarctica.
• The final campaign mission of Silent Hunter 2 assigns the player to escape his Type XXI submarine from Europe to Buenos Aires.
• A possibility in Tropico 5 when transitioning from the World War era to the Cold War era. El Presidente can harbor "Axis" expatriates and gain the wrath of the international community in the next era, or deny them asylum and face a violent invasion from the Central Powers. In Tropico 6 if you ally with the Axis, your contact asks if some people who look exactly like him and everyone he knows can move to Tropico with as much looted artwork as they can carry.
• Inverted in Wolfenstein: The New Order, an Alternate History game where the Nazis won the war thanks to advanced technology looted from a secret and highly-advanced sect; with Hitler himself letting his more unhinged subordinates take over, and with them having access to vast arrays of men and weapons (including nukes) and no fear of significant retaliation, the main characters of La Résistance flee directly to Berlin, where they can make the most of their much more limited resources until they're able to steal an advanced U-boat and its supply of nukes to make themselves more mobile and level the playing field.
• Implied in XCOM: Enemy Unknown, wherein the starting bonus for situating your base in South America is entitled "We Have Ways..."
• A variation in Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield, where the true Big Bad is revealed to be a former member of the Croatian Ustaše regime, who fled to Cayman Brac after liquidating the assets of the countless victims he helped send to German death camps and using them to build a fortune.
• Murder in the Alps has an example preceding World War II; Gergard Wagner, the villain of the chapter Atlantic Connection, is a Sturmabteilung agent who, while living in Argentina, established contacts to smuggle cheap explosives and military equipment to Germany.

Web Original

• Atun Shei Films:
  • A passing mention is made in "My N@zi Roommate" that Klaus the Nazi came from Argentina to answer Atun-Shei's ad for a roommate.
  • The Stinger for "Wasn't it KINDA about STATES RIGHTS?!" shows Klaus visiting an aged, dying Nazi living in Argentina in The '70s.
• AlternateHistory.com acknowledges this as one of the many tired clichés Alternate History authors often resort to (especially novice ones)... It had been mocked in at least one of their series, specifically Englishman.
• The monster in the Creepypasta There are Things in the Mountains of Argentina We Thought Extinct is an SS trooper (as a matter of fact, a concentration camp guard) who (rightfully) thinks that if anyone learns of his past, they'll kill him.

Western Animation

• In Archer, Dr. Krieger grew up in Brazil and has accidentally let slip that his parents were Nazis. This has led other characters to speculate that he's one of the "Boys from Brazil" (see above).
  Krieger: Leave me alone! I am not a Nazi!
  Cyril: What about your father?
  Krieger: No! He was a scientist!
  Cyril: Pretty sure the Nazis had scientists.
  Krieger: No! That's why we... uh, they lost the war! Lack of science!
• Cyber Six is a project of an apparently elderly Nazi Scientist and is based on an Argentinian comic book.
• Jonny Quest and his gang (original 1960s series) runs into a fugitive Nazi (with cavemen servants!) while attempting to recover a weather balloon from an isolated mountaintop. In Africa.
• The Simpsons:
  • When Bart Simpson is making a bunch of international prank calls in "Bart vs. Australia", he calls Chile^note The phone bill that Homer receives lists calls to Santiago Chile, Antarctica Research station, New Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Unnamed settlement and Disputed zone and we see a man who looks suspiciously like Adolf Hitler (although looking good for his age) running to the phone in his car (a black Mercedes with the license plate "ADOLF 1") and just missing the call. A man with an NSDAP badge cycles by and greets him with the Nazi salute.
    Buenas noches, mein Führer!
  • In "New Kids on the Bleech", the Simpsons watch a documentary about the history of the Olympic Games, which first shows footage of the 1936 Berlin Olympics, with Hitler reacting in outrage from the audience to Jesse Owens winning several gold medals. The film then skips to the 1968 Olympics (in Mexico!) where an aged Hitler is in attendance and again shown expressing frustration over the outcomes of the games.
  • A subtler reference is made in "Bart's Inner Child" to Springfield's Do What We Say Festival, which was started by "German settlers" in 1946.
  • In "You Don't Have to Live Like a Referee", when a Brazilian fan calls the Germans "Nazis", a German fan replies by accusing the Brazilians of being Nazi hosts.

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