re: April 30, 1945 - The Death of Adolf Hitler

Speaking of South America, what most people don't know is there was already a movement of Germans to South America even before World War I.

Nietzsche, the German philosopher, died in 1900. His sister, Elisabeth, had been living in South America with other Germans before his death. Her husband was a proto Nazi and anti-Semite, but later died, so she moved back to Germany.

She was a virulent anti-Semite and Nietzsche always argued with her over it. He refused to attend her wedding when she married her anti-Semite husband. She was still alive during the Nazi rise to power and was a supporter, so the Nazis tried to co-opt Nietzsche's philosophy into their propaganda. But anyone who has read his works will know he explicitly stated he did not care for anti-Semites.

Elisabeth Nietzsche died in 1935 and Hitler himself attended the funeral.