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/></a><figcaption>The sinking of the German cruiser <a href="/wiki/German_cruiser_Admiral_Graf_Spee" title="German cruiser Admiral Graf Spee"><i>Admiral Graf Spee</i></a> is the best known event of Uruguay during World War II.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Royal_Air_Force_Fighter_Command,_1939-1945._CH11386.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Royal_Air_Force_Fighter_Command%2C_1939-1945._CH11386.jpg/220px-Royal_Air_Force_Fighter_Command%2C_1939-1945._CH11386.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="168" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Royal_Air_Force_Fighter_Command%2C_1939-1945._CH11386.jpg/330px-Royal_Air_Force_Fighter_Command%2C_1939-1945._CH11386.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Royal_Air_Force_Fighter_Command%2C_1939-1945._CH11386.jpg/440px-Royal_Air_Force_Fighter_Command%2C_1939-1945._CH11386.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="610" /></a><figcaption>Mr. Montero de Bustamante, Uruguayan Chargé d'Affaires in the United Kingdom, speaking at a 1943 ceremony to name a <a href="/wiki/Royal_Air_Force" title="Royal Air Force">Royal Air Force</a> Spitfire fighter funded by Uruguayan donations.</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Uruguay" title="Uruguay">Uruguay</a> remained neutral for most of <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>. The policy of <a href="/wiki/President_of_Uruguay" title="President of Uruguay">President</a> <a href="/wiki/Alfredo_Baldomir" title="Alfredo Baldomir">Alfredo Baldomir</a>, leading the <a href="/wiki/Colorado_Party_(Uruguay)" title="Colorado Party (Uruguay)">Colorado Party</a>, was to support the <a href="/wiki/Allies_of_World_War_II" title="Allies of World War II">Allied cause</a>, but from a neutral base. <a href="/wiki/Great_Britain" title="Great Britain">Great Britain</a> retained considerable influence with the Baldomir regime, largely through the efforts of Sir <a href="/wiki/Eugen_Millington-Drake" title="Eugen Millington-Drake">Eugen Millington-Drake</a>, who was the British Minister in <a href="/wiki/Montevideo" title="Montevideo">Montevideo</a> from 1934 to 1941.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In January 1942, Baldomir terminated diplomatic relations with the <a href="/wiki/Axis_powers" title="Axis powers">Axis powers</a>. He resigned in 1943 and his neutrality policy was continued by his successor <a href="/wiki/Juan_Jos%C3%A9_de_Am%C3%A9zaga" title="Juan José de Amézaga">Juan José de Amézaga</a>, also of the Colorado Party. In February 1945, having signed the <a href="/wiki/Declaration_by_United_Nations" title="Declaration by United Nations">Declaration by United Nations</a>, Amézaga declared war on <a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a> and <a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japan</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Pre-war_German_colonial_plans">Pre-war German colonial plans</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Uruguay_during_World_War_II&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Pre-war German colonial plans"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Planned_Nazi_coup_and_invasion_of_Uruguay" title="Planned Nazi coup and invasion of Uruguay">Planned Nazi coup and invasion of Uruguay</a></div> <p>Before war broke out in Europe, the German government <a href="/wiki/Planned_Nazi_coup_and_invasion_of_Uruguay" title="Planned Nazi coup and invasion of Uruguay">planned a coup and invasion of Uruguay</a> to turn the country into a German colony. Supported by local Nazis and led by Arnulf Fuhrmann and run out of the German embassy in <a href="/wiki/Montevideo" title="Montevideo">Montevideo</a>, the plan never came to fruition. Its leadership was uncovered and arrested.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Baldomir's_wartime_policy"><span id="Baldomir.27s_wartime_policy"></span>Baldomir's wartime policy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Uruguay_during_World_War_II&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Baldomir's wartime policy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After the Second World War began, there was a considerable rise in European demand for Uruguay's key products such as meat, wool and leather. The country prospered and was able to shake off the effects of the <a href="/wiki/Great_Depression" title="Great Depression">Great Depression</a>, especially as its manufacturing base expanded in response to the increased demand. President <a href="/wiki/Alfredo_Baldomir" title="Alfredo Baldomir">Alfredo Baldomir</a> adopted a pro-British stance although he insisted that Uruguay remained neutral militarily. His government had proposed nationalisation of certain foreign enterprises, mostly British, and Baldomir vetoed these as well as deliberately earmarking meat supplies for export to Great Britain.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Admiral_Graf_Spee"><i>Admiral Graf Spee</i></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Uruguay_during_World_War_II&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Admiral Graf Spee"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 13 December 1939, the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_River_Plate" title="Battle of the River Plate">Battle of the River Plate</a> took place off the coast of Uruguay between a British <a href="/wiki/Royal_Navy" title="Royal Navy">Royal Navy</a> squadron and the German "<a href="/wiki/Pocket_battleship" class="mw-redirect" title="Pocket battleship">pocket battleship</a>" <a href="/wiki/German_cruiser_Admiral_Graf_Spee" title="German cruiser Admiral Graf Spee"><i>Admiral Graf Spee</i></a>. All four vessels suffered damage and the <i>Graf Spee</i> took refuge in <a href="/wiki/Montevideo" title="Montevideo">Montevideo</a> harbour. Negotiations began about its status as an active belligerent taking shelter in a neutral country. Millington-Drake played a significant role, making full use of his influence with the Uruguayan government. After a 72-hour layover, the captain of <i>Admiral Graf Spee</i>, having been led to believe that he was hopelessly outnumbered by British reinforcements, ordered the ship to be <a href="/wiki/Scuttling" title="Scuttling">scuttled</a> in the River Plate estuary. Most of the surviving crew of 1,150 were interned in Uruguay and Argentina and many remained after the war. </p><p>A German Embassy official in Uruguay said his government had sent an official letter stating its claims to ownership of the salvage.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Any such claim was already invalid because, early in 1940, the <a href="/wiki/Nazi_government" class="mw-redirect" title="Nazi government">Nazi government</a> had sold <a href="/wiki/Salvaging_rights" class="mw-redirect" title="Salvaging rights">salvaging rights</a> to the vessel to a Uruguayan businessman who was acting on behalf of the British government but, in any event, salvaging rights would have expired under Uruguayan law.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In June 1940, Germany threatened to break off diplomatic relations with Uruguay.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Germany protested that Uruguay had given safe harbour to <a href="/wiki/MV_Carnarvon_Castle" title="MV Carnarvon Castle">HMS <i>Carnarvon Castle</i></a> after it was attacked by a German raider.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The ship was repaired with steel plate reportedly salvaged from <i>Admiral Graf Spee</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Declaration_of_war">Declaration of war</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Uruguay_during_World_War_II&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Declaration of war"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 25 January 1942, Uruguay terminated diplomatic relations with Nazi Germany, one of 21 South and Central American nations to do so (Argentina did not).<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1945, Uruguay formally signed the <a href="/wiki/Declaration_by_United_Nations" title="Declaration by United Nations">Declaration by United Nations</a> and then finally declared war on Germany and Japan on 23 February 1945.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Uruguay_during_World_War_II&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Latin_America_during_World_War_II" title="Latin America during World War II">Latin America during World War II</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 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class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Seguro_Obrero_massacre" title="Seguro Obrero massacre">Seguro Obrero massacre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/MS_St._Louis" title="MS St. Louis"><i>St. Louis</i> Affair</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Panama_Conference_(1939)" class="mw-redirect" title="Panama Conference (1939)">Panama Conference</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Atlantic" title="Battle of the Atlantic">Battle of the Atlantic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_River_Plate" title="Battle of the River Plate">Battle of the River Plate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Havana_Conference_(1940)" title="Havana Conference (1940)">Havana Conference</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Caribbean" title="Battle of the Caribbean">Battle of the Caribbean</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/SS_Tolten" title="SS Tolten">Sinking of the <i>Toltén</i></a></li> <li><a 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<li><a href="/wiki/Manuel_de_Jes%C3%BAs_Troncoso_de_la_Concha" title="Manuel de Jesús Troncoso de la Concha">Manuel de Jesús Troncoso de la Concha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Castellanos_Contreras" title="José Castellanos Contreras">José Castellanos Contreras</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eleazar_L%C3%B3pez_Contreras" title="Eleazar López Contreras">Eleazar López Contreras</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andr%C3%A9s_C%C3%B3rdova" title="Andrés Córdova">Andrés Córdova</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Margot_Duhalde" title="Margot Duhalde">Margot Duhalde</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glen_Edgar_Edgerton" title="Glen Edgar Edgerton">Glen Edgar Edgerton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_F%C3%A9lix_Estigarribia" title="José Félix Estigarribia">José Félix Estigarribia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edelmiro_Juli%C3%A1n_Farrell" title="Edelmiro Julián Farrell">Edelmiro Julián Farrell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ram%C3%B3n_Grau" title="Ramón Grau">Ramón Grau</a></li> <li><a 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Leahy">William D. Leahy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%89lie_Lescot" title="Élie Lescot">Élie Lescot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Mantello" title="George Mantello">George Mantello</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maximiliano_Hern%C3%A1ndez_Mart%C3%ADnez" title="Maximiliano Hernández Martínez">Maximiliano Hernández Martínez</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Toribio_Merino" title="José Toribio Merino">José Toribio Merino</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Edwards" title="María Edwards">María Edwards McClure</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eduardo_Santos_Montejo" title="Eduardo Santos Montejo">Eduardo Santos Montejo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Juan_Antonio_R%C3%ADos_Morales" class="mw-redirect" title="Juan Antonio Ríos Morales">Juan Antonio Ríos Morales</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Higinio_Mor%C3%AD%C3%B1igo" class="mw-redirect" title="Higinio Moríñigo">Higinio Moríñigo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Julio_Enrique_Moreno" title="Julio Enrique Moreno">Julio Enrique Moreno</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aurelio_Mosquera" title="Aurelio Mosquera">Aurelio Mosquera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enrique_Pe%C3%B1aranda" title="Enrique Peñaranda">Enrique Peñaranda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jacinto_Peynado" title="Jacinto Peynado">Jacinto Peynado</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dusko_Popov" class="mw-redirect" title="Dusko Popov">Dusko Popov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alfonso_L%C3%B3pez_Pumarejo" title="Alfonso López Pumarejo">Alfonso López Pumarejo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carlos_Quintanilla" title="Carlos Quintanilla">Carlos Quintanilla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pedro_Pablo_Ram%C3%ADrez" title="Pedro Pablo Ramírez">Pedro Pablo Ramírez</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clarence_S._Ridley" title="Clarence S. 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Ridley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carlos_Alberto_Arroyo_del_R%C3%ADo" title="Carlos Alberto Arroyo del Río">Carlos Alberto Arroyo del Río</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arturo_Rawson" title="Arturo Rawson">Arturo Rawson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rafael_Trujillo" title="Rafael Trujillo">Rafael Trujillo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rexford_Guy_Tugwell" class="mw-redirect" title="Rexford Guy Tugwell">Rexford Guy Tugwell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manuel_Prado_y_Ugarteche" class="mw-redirect" title="Manuel Prado y Ugarteche">Manuel Prado y Ugarteche</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Get%C3%BAlio_Dornelles_Vargas" class="mw-redirect" title="Getúlio Dornelles Vargas">Getúlio Dornelles Vargas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gualberto_Villarroel" title="Gualberto Villarroel">Gualberto Villarroel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St%C3%A9nio_Vincent" title="Sténio Vincent">Sténio Vincent</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">See also</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/American_Theater_(1939-1945)" class="mw-redirect" title="American Theater (1939-1945)">American Theater</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Falangism_in_Latin_America" title="Falangism in Latin America">Falangism in Latin America</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Ecuador_(1925%E2%80%931944)" title="History of Ecuador (1925–1944)">History of Ecuador (1925–1944)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Peru#The_alternation_between_democracy_and_militarism_(1930–1979)" title="History of Peru">History of Peru</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Dominican_Republic#The_Era_of_Trujillo_1927-1961" title="History of the Dominican Republic">History of the Dominican Republic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Mar_del_Plata#The_last_U-boats_and_other_World_War_II_stories" title="History of Mar del Plata">History of Mar del Plata</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Infamous_Decade" title="Infamous Decade">Infamous Decade</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inter-American_Highway" title="Inter-American Highway">Inter-American Highway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Latin_American_Section" title="Latin American Section">Latin American Section</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Socialist_Movement_of_Chile" title="National Socialist Movement of Chile">National Socialist Movement of Chile</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/ODESSA" title="ODESSA">ODESSA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Panama_Sea_Frontier" title="Panama Sea Frontier">Panama Sea Frontier</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidential_Republic_(1925%E2%80%931973)" title="Presidential Republic (1925–1973)">Presidential Republic (1925–1973)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ratlines_(World_War_II)" title="Ratlines (World War II)">Ratlines (World War II)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/SCADTA" title="SCADTA">SCADTA</a></li> <li><a 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