Los alemanes en el Caribe colombiano. Migración, sociabilidad y Nacionalsocialismo en Barranquilla, 1919-1945.

Abstract

This paper explores the dynamics of migration and sociability of the German immigrants in the city of Barranquilla, in the Colombian Caribbean, during a period that includes the postwar period and the Second World War. Through the analysis of alternative sources, such as the press, intelligence reports of the Colombian government and documents generated by the immigrants themselves, among them serial publications, the way in which these foreigners deployed a series of sociability devices that allowed a connection with the host society, and with each other and their place of origin, elements that are the basis of the success of many business initiatives and that have become the leading players in the economic development of the Caribbean port in the first half of the 20th century. The effect of the arrival of National Socialism on this group of immigrants was also explored, and the way in which the international processes of the end of the 1930s and later years determined a profound transformation in the living conditions of these foreigners in the Caribbean Colombian.