Editing Chiche Alem (section)

== Early life ==
Chiche Alem was born on 25 October 1949 in [[Comodoro Rivadavia]], [[Argentina]], into the [[Alem family]]. His father, [[Jose Alem]], had joined [[Jan Paap]] during the formation of the [[Argentine Einsatz]] in 1944. Paap met Jose at an early recruitment meeting in Comodoro Rivadavia, where Jose was serving as a Cabo in Regimiento de Infantería 8. Jose helped recruit soldiers before deserting shortly before the expedition left Argentina. After the landing on Tanoa, he entered the new regime's senior leadership and became the first [[Reichsführer-SS]] when the [[Allgemeine SS]] was formed.<ref name="jan-founding"/>

Comodoro Rivadavia had served as a recruitment and departure point for Paap's organization before the expedition to Tanoa. Alem therefore grew up in a family already tied to the military hierarchy of the new state. The political environment around his family was nationalist and oriented toward loyalty to the developing Tanoan movement.

In 1949, Paap named the [[1st Allgemeine SS Division "Siege Chiche"]] after Alem following his birth.<ref name="jan-founding"/> By that time, Jose Alem already held the highest office in the Allgemeine SS, and the Alem family had become part of the regime's senior leadership.