shut in the nuthouse

I mean there *were* cases of nazis being smuggled into brazil, argentina, chile, and paraguay through illegal escape routes colloquially referred to as ratlines. That is a thing that did happen.

However, the way americans in particular seem to latch onto this fact to dismiss any latin american that pisses them off, either in a "well whatever your country gave refuge to nazis" sense, or in a "I'm directly implying your family were escaped nazis" sense (another example I remember seeing once was a post about US imperialism in latin america where a yankee replied that OP had no business bitching about imperialism because she was probably "a white brazilian called Helga or something") is a bit ironic to me, considering that:

The vast majority of german immigrants to these countries in the 20th century were jewish refugees fleeing the nazis

The US took in thousands more nazis after ww2 than the entirety of Latin America combined

A lot of the nazis that *did* escape to latin america did so with the direct help of US intelligence agencies

Nazis that escaped to the US were treated as valuable anti-soviet assets, and many of them were given cushy jobs by the US government. Most of the nazis who escaped to latin america spent their entire lives hiding from the authorities under false identities, and those who were discovered were extradited or jailed

Alix Breeden at Daily Kos:

Buckle up, because President Donald Trump has taken his whitewashed historical account of U.S. history on the road.  Across the nation, six extremely patriotic, federally funded “Freedom Trucks” are making stops at schools, public events, and elsewhere to share a Trump administration-approved version of history. The trucks are fitted with a “Wall of Heroes” and intertwined with Christian sentiment. The trucks have already made their way across 28 states and intend to hit nearly all 50 states (though Hawaii might be a challenge).  Looking toward George Washington, text recalls the president saying that “our rights are a gift from God, not a favor from kings or courts.” “I was looking for how whitewashed our story would be,” Erika Berg, who visited one of the trucks, told the Washington Post.  And whitewashing seems to be a consistent theme. On the walls, the display—created by the Hillsdale College’s Matthew Spalding with conservative nonprofit Prager University—made little mention of Native Americans, but did manage to include this passage from the Northwest Ordinance of 1787: “The utmost good faith shall always be observed toward the Indians their lands and property shall never be taken from them without their consent.”

or

"If there's a PEDOPHILE at the table and ten other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with eleven PEDOPHILES."