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COMMENT: A rel­a­tive­ly small detail may have large deep polit­i­cal impli­ca­tions. 

” . . . . The Ger­man-born father of Chilean pres­i­den­tial can­di­date José Anto­nio Kast was a mem­ber of the Nazi par­ty, accord­ing to a recent­ly unearthed doc­u­ment – rev­e­la­tions that appear at odds with the far-right candidate’s own state­ments about his father’s mil­i­tary ser­vice dur­ing the sec­ond world war. . . .”

In–among oth­er pro­grams–AFA#19 and FTR#839–we have described the deep Nazi links to the Chilean dic­ta­tor­ship of Augus­to Pinochet.

The nar­row­ly-lead­ing can­di­date in the Chilean pres­i­den­tial run-off is the son of a Ger­man Nazi par­ty mem­ber.

Fur­ther­more, the can­di­date’s broth­er ran Pinochet’s cen­tral bank, a pos­si­ble oper­a­tional link to the remark­able and dead­ly Bor­mann orga­ni­za­tion, which Mr. Emory believes will prove to be the deci­sive ele­ment in human affairs on this plan­et.

” . . . . A fer­vent Roman Catholic and father of nine, Kast has deep fam­i­ly ties to the mil­i­tary dic­ta­tor­ship of Gen Augus­to Pinochet that came to pow­er fol­low­ing a coup in 1973. His broth­er Miguel served as the dictator’s cen­tral bank pres­i­dent. . . .”

For more per­spec­tive on the his­to­ry and oper­a­tion of the Nazi Inter­na­tion­al in Latin Amer­i­ca, we rec­om­mend two books in the Books for Down­load cat­e­go­ry: Falange–The Secret Axis Army in the Amer­i­c­as and The Nazis Go Under­ground.

“Chilean pres­i­den­tial candidate’s father was mem­ber of Nazi par­ty” [Asso­ci­at­ed Press]; The Guardian; 12/08/2021.

Rev­e­la­tions appear at odds with José Anto­nio Kast’s own state­ments about his father’s mil­i­tary ser­vice

The Ger­man-born father of Chilean pres­i­den­tial can­di­date José Anto­nio Kast was a mem­ber of the Nazi par­ty, accord­ing to a recent­ly unearthed doc­u­ment – rev­e­la­tions that appear at odds with the far-right candidate’s own state­ments about his father’s mil­i­tary ser­vice dur­ing the sec­ond world war.

Ger­man offi­cials have con­firmed that an ID card in the country’s fed­er­al archive shows that an 18-year-old named Michael Kast joined the Nation­al Social­ist Ger­man Work­ers’ par­ty, or NSDAP, in Sep­tem­ber 1942, at the height of Hitler’s war on the Sovi­et Union.

While the fed­er­al archive couldn’t con­firm whether Kast was the pres­i­den­tial contender’s father, the date and place of birth list­ed on the card match­es that of Kast’s father, who died in 2014. A copy of the ID card, iden­ti­fied with the mem­ber­ship num­ber 9271831, was pre­vi­ous­ly post­ed on social media on 1 Decem­ber by Chilean jour­nal­ist Mauri­cio Weibel.

The ID card’s emer­gence adds a new twist to a high­ly charged pres­i­den­tial runoff billed on both sides as a bat­tle of extremes and marked by a steady flow of dis­in­for­ma­tion that has dis­tort­ed the record and cam­paign pledges of Kast’s oppo­nent.

Kast, 55, led the first round of Chile’s pres­i­den­tial elec­tion last month, two points ahead of left­ist law­mak­er Gabriel Boric, who he now will face in the 19 Decem­ber runoff.

A fer­vent Roman Catholic and father of nine, Kast has deep fam­i­ly ties to the mil­i­tary dic­ta­tor­ship of Gen Augus­to Pinochet that came to pow­er fol­low­ing a coup in 1973. His broth­er Miguel served as the dictator’s cen­tral bank pres­i­dent.

“If he were alive, he would have vot­ed for me,” Kast said of Pinochet dur­ing the 2017 cam­paign, in which he won just 8% of the vote. “We would have had tea togeth­er” in the pres­i­den­tial palace.

On the cam­paign trail this year, he has empha­sized con­ser­v­a­tive fam­i­ly val­ues, attacked migrants from Haiti and Venezuela whom he blames for crime and blast­ed Boric as a pup­pet of Chile’s com­mu­nists.

Kast has made inroads with mid­dle-class vot­ers con­cerned that Boric – a mil­len­ni­al for­mer stu­dent protest leader – would dis­rupt three decades of eco­nom­ic and polit­i­cal sta­bil­i­ty that has made Chile the envy of many in Latin Amer­i­ca. To under­score those con­cerns, Kast trav­eled last week to Wash­ing­ton and met with Amer­i­can investors as well as Sen­a­tor Mar­co Rubio, the top Repub­li­can on the sub­com­mit­tee over­see­ing US rela­tions with Latin Amer­i­ca.

The lat­est opin­ion polls give a slight edge in the runoff to Boric, who has piv­ot­ed to the cen­ter to gal­va­nize sup­port from vot­ers fear­ful of a return to the country’s tumul­tuous past.

“This backs up Boric’s fram­ing of the race as a dichoto­my between fas­cism and democ­ra­cy,” Jen­nifer Prib­ble, a Chile expert at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Rich­mond, said of the old­er Kast’s wartime record. “To the extent Kast seems to be hid­ing some ele­ment of his family’s his­to­ry, it plays into that nar­ra­tive.”

A spokes­woman for Kast’s cam­paign wouldn’t com­ment when asked repeat­ed­ly by the AP.

But in the past Kast has angri­ly reject­ed claims that his father was a sup­port­er of the Nazi move­ment, describ­ing him instead as a forced con­script in the Ger­man army.

“When there is a war and [mil­i­tary] enroll­ment is manda­to­ry, a 17 or 18 year old doesn’t have the option to say, ‘I’m not going,’ because they will be court mar­tialed and shot to death the very next day,” he said in 2018.

There is no evi­dence the elder Kast had a role in wartime atroc­i­ties such as the attempt to exter­mi­nate Europe’s Jews. But while mil­i­tary ser­vice was com­pul­so­ry, mem­ber­ship in the Nazi par­ty was vol­un­tary.

Kast joined the par­ty in 1942 with­in five months of turn­ing 18 – the min­i­mum age required for mem­ber­ship. He prob­a­bly was a mem­ber of the Hitler Youth for at least four years before join­ing the par­ty and would have been rec­om­mend­ed by the dis­trict leader, said Armin Nolzen, a Ger­man his­to­ri­an.

“If you’re a par­ty mem­ber, you’re a par­ty mem­ber,” said Richard F Wet­zell, a research fel­low at the Ger­man His­tor­i­cal Insti­tute in Wash­ing­ton. “Being a par­ty mem­ber does bind you to the par­ty and its ide­ol­o­gy even though many may have joined for pure­ly oppor­tunis­tic rea­sons.”

Kast migrat­ed to Chile in 1950, fol­lowed a year lat­er by his wife and old­est two chil­dren, and estab­lished him­self in Paine, a rur­al com­mu­ni­ty south of the cap­i­tal of San­ti­a­go. Even­tu­al­ly, the cou­ple built a small busi­ness sell­ing cold cuts from a road­side kiosk into a nation­wide chain of restau­rants and man­u­fac­tur­er of pack­aged food.