during , after second world war, many europeans fled argentina, escaping hunger , poverty of post-war period. according national bureau of migrations, during period 1941–1950 @ least 392,603 europeans entered country: 252,045 italians, 110,899 spaniards, 16,784 poles, 7,373 russians , 5,538 french. among notable italian immigrants in period protest singer piero de benedictis (emigrated parents in 1948), actors rodolfo ranni (emigrated in 1947) , gianni lunadei (1950), publisher césar civita (1941), businessman francisco macri (1949), lawmaker pablo verani (1947), , rock musician kay galiffi (1950). argentina received thousands of germans, including humanitarian businessman oskar schindler , wife, hundreds of ashkenazi jews, , hundreds of nazi war criminals. notorious beneficiaries of ratlines included adolf eichmann, josef mengele, erich priebke, rodolfo freude (who became first director of argentine state intelligence), , ustaše head of state of croatia, ante pavelić. still matter of