Nazi Collaboration in Mexico During WWII

   

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Published on Aug 22, 2018

This clip shows some details or how Mexican collaborated with the Nazis and had sympathy with them during WWII. Mexican audiences used to applaud the Nazis in newsreels shown at the cinemas. Mexico did eventually declare war on Nazi Germany, because the Americans leaned hard on them, but they did not contribute much to the war effort directly.

Widespread Nazi sympathy did not stop at the border and this sympathy helps explain some similarities of the La Raza / Chicano nationalist movements with the symbols and concepts of Nazism. Mexican ethnic nationalists aligned with Marxists after the war, however, and that explains why La Raza / Chicano-ism have features of both ultra nationalism and Marxism.

Jose Vasconcelos developed the mestizo racialist concept of La Raza. He is featured in this clip and was the most important pro-Nazi propagandist in Mexico during WWII.


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