2025 Böttcher und Guzmán wrote their books. Guzmán also participated in June at the "25. International Research Conference" der "Latin American Jewish Studies Association". Final Report: Böttcher's monograph entitled "Compensation and Reparation of Berlin Jews in Bolivia and Ecuador, 1933-1970" characterizes the group of emigrants and applicants for reparations or compensation in Andean Latin America. The circumstances of the flight into exile, travel routes, entry conditions and a completely new beginning in a foreign country were common to all Jewish refugees. The visual material from the Berlin archives in the form of photos of home furnishings, gives an impression of the mostly middle-class conditions of Jewish-German life in Berlin before and after 1933.
Equally illustrative are hand drawings of valuables, jewellery and porcelain, which reflect the individual living conditions before and after the flight The original documents attached to the applications were air tickets, train tickets, baggage insurance certificates, visa applications. The history of the Jewish communities with their institutions, acculturation problems and political controversies was very similar in Bolivia and Ecuador. For many Jews, both countries were virtually waiting rooms. The length of stay in Latin America varied widely. After immigration had taken place late, namely after the "Anschluss", the pogrom night and the Wannsee Conference, when escape routes to other countries were no longer open, a wave of emigration began only a few years after the end of the war.
Many emigrated again from Bolivia or Ecuador to Buenos Aires and New York or returned to Germany, others stayed in Latin America for over twenty years. In this respect, the end of the fifties represented a turning point. Many Jews had emigrated again, and those who remained had gradually assimilated. The work of Jewish aid organizations lost importance and the relationship with the Federal Republic was redefined, not least through the reparations policy. Manuscript was handed in in June. Guzmán's book "Allende, Pinochet, and the Jews" examines the relationship between Chile’s Jewish community, the State of Israel, and the two most consequential political figures of twentieth-century Chile: Salvador Allende and Augusto Pinochet. Drawing on declassified archives from Chile, Israel, Germany, and Jewish organizations in the United States, Guzmán analyzes how Cold War politics reshaped Jewish life in Chile and challenges conventional assumptions about antisemitism and ideological alignment in Latin America.
A central contribution of the book is its reconstruction of the return migration of Jewish Germans from Chile to West Germany following Allende’s electoral victory in 1970. Using archival sources from Berlin, Santiago, and Jewish relief organizations, Guzmán demonstrates that a significant number of Holocaust survivors and German-speaking Jews—many of whom had refused to recover their German nationality after the Second World War—decided to leave Chile amid fears of political and economic instability under the Unidad Popular government. The study therefore situates Jewish migration within the broader context of the Cold War, exile, memory, and transnational identity.
The book further argues that both Allende and Pinochet maintained favorable attitudes toward Jews and Israel, though for very different reasons. While Allende’s philosemitism stemmed from anti-fascist convictions and support for Zionism, Pinochet’s regime viewed Israel as a strategic ally and Jewish Chileans as socially and economically influential actors.