| Summary: | The refuge of German Jews in America and Chile in particular, responded to a traumatic process experienced with the establishment of German National Socialism and Italian Fascism between the second and third decades of the 20th century and the end of World War II. In Chile, it has been an issue addressed from the social, political and cultural dynamics of its arrival, without delving into the institutional factors that surround it. The present work addresses the dynamics of reception of the Jews who escaped from Europe between 1938 and 1940, from a political-institutional perspective. Through Historical Institutionalism and the analysisof documentary sources, it is shown that the open doors policy of the Popular Front came to an abrupt halt and ended up reinforcing the restriction on Jewish immigration, as had happened during the government of Arturo Alessandri Palma.
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