The Germans of Latin America (Deutsch Latein Amerika) 

Brazil has the largest population of Italian descendents outside of Italy, Portuguese outside of Portugal, Africans outside of Africa and Japanese outside of Japan

German is a name in Spanish lol. But in Spanish German is "Aleman"

You forgot to mention the German influence on Mexican music such as bandas,norteñas, and polkas which sound nearly identical to German folk music

As a Brazilian with German ancestry, congrats on the excellent vídeo. As an interesting note, in Brazil during WWII many German colonies or people who spoke German received similar and in some instances worse treatment as the Japanese on the USA.

USA has more than 50 millions german descendants, but german culture is more striking in southern Brazil than in the United States. There are more german speakers in Brazil than in the US. In addition, the largest Oktoberfest in the world outside Germany is in Brazil!!!!

I can only speak for my experiences in Chile. I'm a German myself and was blown away by how much remnants of German culture can be found in Chile. Loads of people claiming to be of German descent (their mother tongue being Spanish though) and random stuff like food (you get German Kuchen/'cake' and finding German restaurants that serve very outdated food (like 18hundrets farmer's dishes) are everywhere. While attending Spanish class in Santiago de Chile my teacher told me that there is a lot of reference towards German culture and German ideals of orderliness and punctuality in Chile. And you can feel it in the whole way the country looks and works. She said among other South American countries Chileans are considered the Germans of South America. Pretty interesting experience.

20 milions de german brasilians 50 milions in USA 20 MILIONS in Brazil 3 milions in Canadá 3 milions en argentina

My wife’s great grandfather was a German immigrant who came to Mexico as a young boy at the end of the 19th century. He settled in Nuevo León where it attracted a good size of Germans and he also had family in Texas but his parents decided to stay in Mexico. Her great grandmother was mestiza (mix race). He passed away recently but that man left good memories such as how he taught my wife how to play the accordion, since Germans are the ones that influenced Mexican Norteño music.

Here in Brazil we have about 10 million people of German ancestry (also some swiss and austrians). One of the has even become the president (Ernesto Geisel). Many artists and famous people of Brazil have, like Giselle Bundchen and also lots of politicians and judges.

I used to date a German-Chilean girl a couple years ago (I'm Chilean too), her grandfather was running from the Nazi regime back in Europe, and he was thinking in going to Brazil, but he ended up in Chile, where he met her grandmother, it was a wild history lol

El Monterrey Nueva Leon definitely has German descent people in them. Germans have also settled there as well as other areas in Mexico

The city of Blumenau in Brazil is like a little Germany.

Which Latin American country was most heavily impacted by the Germans? That's easy: Brazil, during the last world cup... the score was 7 to 1.... :)

South of Brazil, Oktoberfest happens every year !!!!!

Both sides of my family ended up in Paraguay after ww2. They were ethnic Germans living in Ukraine (then part of the Soviet union) and were treated horribly by the Soviets. All 4 of my great grandfathers were sent to gulags in Siberia 3 of them died there and the reasons were, wanting to keep the land they had lived and worked on for generations, being a pastor at the village church and generally being anti communist. Once ww2 started and the Germans took their village they fled into German occupied Poland where both of my grandfathers were drafted into the German army, both survived the war. After the war the Soviets wanted all their citizens back which included my grandparents and their families and them not wanting to go back for fear of retaliation fled Europe. They ended up in Argentina and then moved into Paraguay because the Paraguay government wanted settlers in some region. They lived there for 10 years before they moved to Canada.

D E U T S C H L A N D 🇩🇪

Brazil love it's migrant communities, Germans, Italians and the Japanese are the most loved ones, other than the Portuguese of course, so these people will always have their culture mixed with ours, it's hard to find a fair without these brought along

Southern Brazil is heavily german

I'm from Argentina, and my grandparents arrived in "turbulent times", and were able to live in peace. That's the only thing that matters.

Best part of having german ancestry is when people say you drink too much beer, you can say it's your cultural heritage :D All heil Oktoberfest!!!

Models scouts in Brazil love going to Southern Brazil in search of models of German descent. European in origin in general. Such models include Gisele Bundchen, Cintia Dicker, Monique Olsen, Raquel Zimmerman, Caroline Trentini, and Luma Grothe.

In the city I grew up in South Brazil, literally, everyone had German ancestry, it was a normal thing there and I never really wondered why because it was just the way it was, my grandmother speaks German (Not really, she speaks like a mix of German and Portuguese), but sadly my parents never learned German so I never learned it. It's so cool to see how history affects directly your life, thanks for making a video like this, I always liked history and peoples but I never really thought that I was part of it until I watched this video :)

Great video! Funny though how Peron bringing Nazis to Argentina is bad, whereas USA and URSS doing the same is ignored.

A few German contributions to Mexico Beer Banda Music (similar to Polka Music) Chihuahua Cheese And those are just a few I can think of right now

Great video! I was born in south Brazil and therefore I can confirm the large contribution of german descendant to our culture - along with Guarani and Kaingang indigenous groups, African, Italian and East European descendants (I myself being a mixture of many of these). I'd just like to point out that Brazilian official Independence Day is Sept 7th 1822, and the first attempt to build a colony of German immigrants dates from 1818, however the first successful colonies were not established until 1824. So information given at 3:50 is technically correct, but I would stress that almost all German immigrants arrived after independence. That said, keep up the terrific work you're doing, I'm really enjoying these videos! ;-)

Und auf Wiedersehen mein Freund! :D

If i recall correctly, the first german to step on brazilian land was a passenger of a shipwrecked ship from Bremen in the XVI century. His name was Hans Staden and he recorded his experience with the canibals in the coast (who almost devoured him too). After returning to Europe, his report was well known throughout the whole continent.

Dimas Gramz I’m so glad to see this video. I’m from Rio Grande do Sul and my grandfather came from Prussia in the beginning of the last century. We have a very strong German culture down here. Many speak the dialect (Hunsrück) and the traditions are very much alive, like Kerb and Oktober fests, architecture (fachwerk) and so on. There are even those who root for the German soccer team instead of the Brazilian. Yeah, really (even before 2014). The intermixing with Brazilian culture is very slim because the Germans came to isolated places and the distance between German and Portuguese is so much greater than German and English for example. So little is known about us, it makes me happy to see this work you’re doing Masaman. I feel honored. Herzlich Glückwunsch!

as a brazillian with my mothers family being german and my fathers family being italian i must say thank you for doing this video,it was extremlly informative

Hello from Costa Rica. Our education system was positively affected by germans. Wish more had settled here. Thank you for the video.

German surnames are still common in southern Brazil and in some cases are the majority. German clerics or of German origin are very influential in the Catholic Church. German schools were abolished during WWII, as were Italian and Japanese, and lessons in Portuguese made mandatory. The first time I went to Paraguay near the Brazilian border, I ended up talking German to get around as I did not speak Spanish or Guarani.

Great video, I was born in Mexico my first language is of course Spanish, second language German, grandma is half Austrian.

We are everywhere. You can run from us, but you cant hide. WE ARE THE GERMANS!!! Hallo from Germany, hope everyone has a nice day!

Thanks for this video! This explains the Germans in Guatemala and my great grandfather!

This channel needs serious funding and support. Oh man. So good.

Interesting documentary and definitely educational. Thanks for posting!

South America seems like such a nice place. Stuff like this makes me want to visit.

Proud German-Mexican American 🇺🇸 🇩🇪 🇲🇽

Thank you SOOO much. Great video

Wow excellent backround on the matter and explained with brevity. Keep up the good work and 100000 world class points awarded u.

I love this channel so much! Great content, great presentation, great editing, and all around just a good vibe from it. I learn something from every one of your videos. Keep up the good work mate! (also why don't you have a Patreon?)

Congratulations on the video! I’m actually Brazilian who lives in the South and have German ancestry. You said it right that they did mix, specially with Italians (I also have Italian ancestry and last name), but a while ago there was an issue with marriages between even descendants of Germans and Italians. Usually the Italians would be catholic and the Germans Protestant, so this was the real issue. You should have commented on a weird thing that happens here: Italian descendants who only speak German as a second language. This is the case with both sides of my family, both of them came (mostly) from Italy but weird enough, both sides would communicate only in German at home. And another interesting fact that was missed was that the 1964 dictatorship forbade everybody of speaking their languages (some people would not even know how to speak Portuguese) and they literally spied on people and punished them for speaking any other language that’s not Portuguese. Even though that happened, the languages continue to be widely spoken here. This whole thing is a very interesting phenomena. Thanks for dedicating your time and presenting this subject! 🙂

Amazing content as usual. Thanks for sharing

Hi Masaman, I follow your channel since a long time, I am a German born in Guatemala. Thanks for the research, it is important no to forget the roots. Viele Grüße aus Stuttgart.

Some regions of Brazil still speak Hunsrückisch and Pomeranian dialects as a second language (or spoken inside home, with friends or by old people as first language). Some cities in the south are almost totally german or italian in population.

I'm from Chile. Most of my ancestry is indigenous (aymara and chango from the North) but my great great grandfather was actually a German immigrant in the South of Chile. He was actually the illegitimate father of my great grandmother so we don't know much about him but I think he came over because the Chilean government was sort giving away land and money to people who could develop the southern regions like the araucania. At that point, the spanish and chilean government had sort of abandoned it as they were met with a lot of resistance from Mapuche tribes. Sadly, this influx of Germans and taking the land of the natives has led to many problems nowadays and terrorist groups have formed to take back so called 'mapuche land'. It is a very difficult topic but I don't think it justifies the violence.

One of your best research-videos.

Once again I've learned more from your show and I've ever learned in school.

Germânicos no Brasil: Alemães: 15.000.000 Neerlandeses: 4.434.021 Austríacos: 2.000.000 Belgas: 1.000.000 Suíços: 500.000 Noruegueses: 465.441 Ingleses: 420.000 Suecos: 260.000 Dinarmaqueses: 150.000 Irlandeses: 125.000 Finlandeses: 98.000 Luxemburgueses: 80.000 Escoceses: 45.000 Galeses: 6.000 Islandeses: 576 Eslavos no Brasil: Polacos: 4.000.000 Ucranianos: 1.190.000 Russos: 960.000 Eslovacos: 715.000 Sérvios: 700.000 Tchecos: 540.000 Croatas: 127.765 Bielorussos: 80.000 Búlgaros: 65.000 Macedônios: 45.000 Montenegrinos: 2.000 Eslovênos: 1.500

Hey I'm that too, I have German blood and Austrian blood, my German ancestors were farmers that came to Mexico(Germans came to the west part of Mexico and the northern east part). And my Austrian ancestor was a soldier for the mexican emperor Maximiliam from Austria. They come from 2 sides of my family interestingly enough

Very interesting, thank you for your hard work

i am a german argentine and this video helped me understand a lot of things. thanks for the info

Many Latin Americans in Germany who come here to study are in fact of German heritage. Many are of jewish heritage too

Hi Mason. Great video. Regards from Argentina!

Wow very nice Masaman it’s a great job!🤩

Great videos keep up the good work

@masaman there's a German community in Jamaica as well. They came as indentured servants when slavery ended in 1838. They're pretty much Jamaican now but have their German names etc. Their community is called German Town. Lots of videos about them on RU-vid, check them out!

I’m a proud Mexican-German/Dutch 🇲🇽🇩🇪🇳🇱 I love kalter hund

Love this history lessons props dude

Very intresting video!

Good one! More German stuff please:)

I live in a city in the center of Argentina and we have several towns (Hinojo, Colonia Hinojo, Colonia Nievas and Colonia San Miguel) right outside mine that were founded by Volga Germans during the mid to late 1800s. They have yearly festivals that include traditional German dances, music, arts and crafts, food and, of course, beer. But while most of the people that live there have German surnames, most don't speak a word of the language.

Nice video, many thanks

Great video with a lot German history .Amazing how many descendants are living throughout all of the South American countries and even in northern Mexico.

It's great many good ppl from ALL Europe settled in our countries in the past centuries. Sadly so many trolls are coming to say too many BS here. Thank you Mason!

The Greater Mexico City region has a network of German-language schools, Colegio Alemán Alexander von Humboldt, A. C. This whole network makes it the largest German-speaking school outside of Germany.

Another great video. Well done. Make one about Baltic people.

I was just talking about this subject! Nice

As an American Navy Brat I lived in Talcahuano (sic) Chile 1961 to 1964 I was 12-13 it was real good for me , I learned Spanish (easy when you are young )and made many friends, I still want to go back there . I was familiar with the Marineros parading but later I was shocked during a Military parade where the Army was the main part of the parade , I had a good view with my father right next to the viewing platform and entire regiments goose stepped by wearing authentic WW2 German uniforms with Stalhiem helmets . I was totally not expecting that my father calmed me down and shortly with the US Ambassador I met and shock hands with Pinochet. The impression I got was that many of the Steel mills were constructed by the Germans and that they were very much involved in the mining of Saltpeter and nitrates this mineral meant a lot to Germany in order to make gunpowder and explosives . Very quickly the Brits shut down any of this from getting to Germany and I think Germany found other ways to make gunpowder and explosives . Many Germans who worked in those industries sat out the War there and helped set out the welcome mat for Germans to come over to Chile after the 2nd WW. During WW1 there was the Battle of Coronell where offshore from Chile the German fleet defeated the British fleet. Afterwards the German fleet paid a visit to Valparaiso Chile where thousands of cheering Germans cheered on the victors The wild celebrations made front page in all the papers at that time . Like many SA Countries the branches of services were jealous of each other and often did not trust each other . When I was there the Chilean Navy had close ties with England and had English made Destroyers . The Chilean Air Force had close ties with the USA and flew the Panther jets that were used in Korea . The Chilean Army seemed to have no one sponsoring them but the Germans prior had set them up making excellent Chilean Mausers and other equipment along with the steel mills . I attended a British School when I was there the only American kid in the school, I was forced every school day to lead everyone with “Rule Britannia” as they raised the Union Jack . We had many German school friends who we would gang up with after soccer games to bully and harass the French school . Awesome good times . Twice we took the US Naval Mission plane (C 47 ?)down to the Patagonia where we landed on dirt strips and met up with some German communities centered around retired industrialists they weren’t expecting us so they went out an shot a deer and a boar to eat . It was a trip to have all these blond haired kids running out to the plane to meet us . A lot of German was spoken which I understood none . We communicated with each other in Spanish . Anyway that was my experience with Germans in Chile !

Small number of people of Germanic descent in Jamaica and the Cayman islands; results of a ship wreck over a century ago; that's how my grandfather got here.

Masaman, great video! Please make a video about the germans in Namibia! That is a fascinating topic as well, that 100 years after the fall of that colony there is still a huge german heritage there.

Great video! Consider one about germans in Namibia, they even have their own Oktoberfest

At 5:23 yeah I saw people like that before at my job in el paso. It was pretty strange because it was a family of four and looked super white but spoke only spanish and wore really traditional looking clothing

Do a vid on Dutch people. Their impact is underrated.

fascinating...very informative

Masaman .....wunderbar ,!!!!! Ausgezeichnet!!!!

Do the Northern Crusades!!!

Thank to Germans, Mexico has polka music in the forms of banda and Norteño

The town you mentioned, Colonia Tovar, has the nickname "Germany of the Caribbean". Oktoberfest is celebrated there, there is some German architecture in Colonia Tovar, and there is a beer brewery in Colonia Tovar, known as Cerveceria Tovar A.C.

Interesting! Thank you ;->

Masaman, you might want to look at the volume of your voice recording. After switching to this video from several others, I had to more than double my volume to hear you.

Funny how Brazil has the biggest number of Japenese, german, and italians. Triple alliance lives there.

I simply love your channel, it is as if you read my mind and the curiosity that it harbors concerning this topic world wide. Another curiosity is last names and their origins so if you know of a channel specializing in the subject please let me know. Have a great day.

My grandma was a Paraguayan of Swiss-German and Austrian parents, she then moved to Argentina which is where I'm from.

That's awesome. Here in southeast Brazil we have so much German and Italian influence in culture, music and also In blood. So, I have discovered studying my genealogy that I have a mix of almost all European countries, but the most prominent are the portugese, German and Italian.

We have a lot of menonites in the Dominican Republic, especially in the Cordillera Central

im fully german ascendant in Chile =) nice video! greetgins masaman

Im a Uruguayan from german decent, living in Germany again. Nice video

19 million German in Latin America (10 million Brazil,3 million Argentina,1,5 million Mexico, 1 million Chile,1 million Central America,1,5 million Colombia and Venezuela,0,5 million Peru,0,5 million Paraguay,0,5 million Ecuador and Bolivia)

Didn't Germans also move to Eastern Europe and parts of Central Asia too?

I'm from Maracaibo. This city was founded three times because it was hard to settle in here. The natural conditions of the place are harsh.

Some info you may like, Mason. I'm from Rio Grande do Sul (southernmost brazilian state), especifically from Rio Grande that didn't had a considerable flux of german immigrants such as some neighboring cities. Recently, i'm travelling more through the interior of the state because of my work and it came to my attention how common diglossia is in cities like Canguçu, São Lourenço and in the Pelotas's colonies (farming districts). People really talk switching between portuguese and pomeranian as a daily way of communication, and I find that amazing. Another one: There is a menonite colony in Aceguá. I had a friend in university that came from the colony and she not only speeks german fluently, but also tells (as you have) that they came to Brazil from Russia.

I have Volga German ancestry, from Entre Ríos province (Argentina). Volga Germans celebrate Oktoberfest in some villages. Volga German food is quite popular here such as piroks (beerocks), torta rusa ( cake with Dinnekuche on top) and Kreppels (Russian German fried cakes)

3:55 I'm sure it means something different in German, but I can't get over how that sign says _"pisswagen."_

Great work dude ! I'm a 7th gen. "Texan German" .We are .rare in terms of over all German migration to the USA..

I’m German-Peruvian and I’ve German ancestry also from from my Peruvian side. Thank you very much for producing a video about “my people”. It’s excellent!

Chile cannot into video :(. My city (Valdivia) was largely influenced by German culture, a lot of buildings still have their architecture. There's also a fairly popular beer here called Kunstmann created by a German-Chilean family.

In my hometown it is not uncommon to hear people speaking in German on the sidewalks, buses and so on... New Hamburg, Brazil... settled 1825.

I liked the video

in the late 1800's Germans in Nicaragua initiated the coffee plantation in the northern region, Matagalpa and Jinotega. Coffee nowday is one of our main exports. "Selva Negra" Black Forrest, is well known and an Icon