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Some, yes, but the ethnic make up of Argentina is largely Spanish and Italian with a good mix of British, Germans, and European Jews thrown in for good measure. Unlike the rest of South America there is not a noticeable dominance of native "Indian" or black and mulatto African slave descendants in the faces one sees in the streets.

The German part has more of its origins in late 19th and early 20th centuries immigration than escaping Nazi war criminals. You see the same thing in the southern part of Brazil and in Paraguay and Uruguay.

But the Nazis were quietly welcomed into a country where Peronism (a trade union based populist politics for which "national socialism" is a good descriptor) became the dominant political force after a military coup in 1943 and Juan Peron's election to president (with Eva Duarte - Evita - at his side) in 1946. We should get down on our knees and thank God that this part of the hemisphere was settled by English and not Spanish or Portuguese subjects.