(anonymous)
What's an outrage is how in Chile all nazi symbols and paraphernalia are legal. Although many of you stated that it is incredible how someone dark skinned may be nazi, it is that way all over the world, from Spain and Chile to Brasil or USA. The manipulation of stupidity, ignorance and hate are and always will be the reason of this ideology and feelings -- exploited by those opportunist leaders that use these idiots to reach power and fortune. It's all about money, power and hate.

Kailua, Hawaii
Hitler and his followers would have just tossed them onto trains bound for death camps without question. Hitler's warped goal of creating the perfect Aryan race would not have included Chilean kids. May God Save Us All.

T
Vancouver, BC
Quick comments: First, great work again Frontline! Second, in response to earlier threads, most homeless people in America do not choose to be homeless. And third, while the Nazis may have been socialists in name (National Socialist German Workers Party), they were in fact fascists.

(anonymous)
Two points in response to other comments below:

"Do they not look in the mirror and see an ethnic person?"
Actually the answer is: No, they don't. Having lived in Chile for 6 months, I know that a majority of the people don't have dark skin and look very European. Those with dark skin often have ties to the Native inhabitants before the Spanish came and face some racism.

"Do not buy their fruits, do not buy their vegetables, do not buy their Milton Friedman [economics]."

Again I think this statement is downright silly. Most Chileans are not Nazis and all the people I met old enough to know about Pinochet are horrified by the time he was in power (not to mention that the US helped him gain power there in the first place). Educate youself before making statements like these.

Samuel
Cape Coral, Florida
There is not much you can say about this guy. Maybe he cannot get into the University because he has the intelligence of a banana, not because he is poor. Does he not know that Hitler would have him exterminated for being of an inferior race? Maybe next time we read about him is when he goes to a Klan meeting. All the government has to do in order to stop this movement is give them mirrors.

James Hall
Liberty, NY
Hitler died in the Bunker.It should be remembered the people of Chile lived for 17 years under Gen.Pinochet, a man who had many attributes of Der Fuhrer. In WW2 the Japanese were allies of the Nazis and they certainly were not white.

adam
san francisco, california
Fascinating little story. But let's not forget the big picture. Pinochet is dead and gone. The rightwingers are out of power. The new president, Michelle Bachelet, is a moderate socialist. She was herself a victim of Pinochet's torture, and the Pinochet regime killed her father, who was a general. She is a breath of fresh air for Chile. Frontline/World should do a story about her.

Michael
Cincinnati, OH
Hitler did not hate anyone that was not white. There were Indians, Asians, Muslims, and even some North Africans in the Africa Korps. There was a whole division raised from India. Muslims from the Balkans. TIbetan monks. Koreans, a whole slew of other races.

James D
Reno, nv
It seemed interesting, but the narrator's accent became unbearable after a few moments.

Mike Garcia
Chicago, IL
I'm not really sure what globalization, free market economics or privatization have to do with the Neo-Nazis outlined in this piece.

By definition, Nazis were on the radical edges of ultra-socialism with their universal health care, universal education and a unilateral, government run economic model which dictated and controlled the supply of goods and services. A toxic mix of socialist policies that kill invention & inspiration, along with an unhealthy diet of nationalism is what the Nazis promoted and Neo-Nazis promote today.

If anything, opening up free markets - which totally depend on individual rights & freedoms (i.e. privatization), and allowing more globalization for an exporting economy like Chile will only hurt any uber-socialist group like the Neo-Nazis.

I buy Chilean apples and volumes of wonderful Chilean red wine every year. I suggest everyone support the economy of Chile and you'll be helping snuff out radicals and their reasons to promote their brand of fairness (i.e. hate).

RAFAEL
San Diego, CA
It's hard for us to understand their point of view. It's not our lives. We were not born in their societies. Even if you're the poorest person in the slums of America, you haven't lived what these people are living. In the United States you pretty much choose to be poor or homeless.

dallas, TX
Economic repression of the masses breeds hatred, the poor look for someone to blame. How history continues to repeat itself.Corruption in government brings this kind of reaction.

Glen Oaks, NY
Frontline is one of the programs I watch on PBS. You always present a controversial subject and go into depth.

(anonymous)
I can't believe this. It's so amazing to see how people are quick to grasp a foolish ideology and embrace it. If they only realized that Hitler hated anyone with their skin color and darker.

(anonymous)
Chile never disavowed definitively [former dictator] Pinochet. Do not buy their fruits,
do not buy their vegetables, do not buy their Milton Friedman [economics].

Luis
Chicago, IL
These groups will only continue to grow, because of the government's refusal to see the threat -- and more importantly, to do anything about the continuing gap between the poor, mostly indigenous and the better well off white societies all throughout Latin America. It's a sad day in society when we see people of any race try to imitate Hitler.

(anonymous)
How horrible..,Chilean nazis...that's a oxymoron. Do they not look in the mirror and see an ethnic person? With brown skin and exotic features, they are a far cry from the typical Neo Nazi. They are want to bes. Please figure out a way to help your country instead of hurting it. If Hitler was right in his warped ideology, the Nazi party would still be a driving force today, instead of these sad people living in the faded shadows of Hitler.

Michelle
Chicago, Chicago
It is not improbable that there would be a neo-nazi movement in Chile, especially given its history. Secondly, most people do not have a wide enough world view to understand the nature and complexity of globalization and the impact it has on local economies. All people, in all countries, who are easily marginalized will continue to be so as a result of globalization, off-shoring, and privatization. Finally, as a society, we need to offer something -- I don't know what -- to those youths who have been steeped in hyper-militarized / hyper-male and hyper-segregated ideologies.