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In August 1942, Brazil declared war on Germany and Italy and entered World War II. Brazilian and German soldiers fought each other during the Italian campaign. Diplomatic relations were resumed between Brazil and West Germany in 1951. [2] That same year, Brazil opened an embassy in Bonn and West Germany opened an embassy in Rio de Janeiro. [2]
As early as 1867, the North German Confederation had sent a representative for diplomatic affairs to Brazil. This post was then taken over by accredited diplomats from the German Empire, the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich until the representation in Rio de Janeiro was converted into a full-fledged embassy in 1937.
course of the Jari river. The German Amazon-Jary-Expedition (1935-1937) was a Nazi era scientific expedition in northern Brazil.The discovery of a huge cross emblazoned with swastika at the grave site of one of the expedition members in the local jungle has brought the event to renewed international attention during the second decade of the 21st century.
Half-timbered buildings in the Aldeia do Imigrante Park in Nova Petrópolis, a typical construction type of German colonial architecture.. The German colonization in Rio Grande do Sul was a large-scale and long-term project of the Brazilian government, motivated initially by the desire to populate the south of Brazil, ensuring the possession of the territory, threatened by Spanish neighbors.
The chancellor of Germany and president of Brazil expressed hope Monday that decades-long negotiations might soon yield a finalized free trade agreement between the 27-member European Union and a ...
After Germany's defeat in World War II, some Nazis sought by the Allies as suspected war criminals fled to Brazil and hid among the German-Brazilian communities. The most famous of these was Josef Mengele , a doctor who became known as the "Angel of Death" at the Auschwitz concentration camp .
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is set to land in Berlin on Sunday for the first Brazilian-German government consultations in eight years as Latin America and Europe's largest ...
Brazil's foreign policy progressed through three different phases. Brazil used their relative freedom during the first phase (1935–1940) to play Germany and the United States against one another. As the conflict progressed, Brazil's trade with the Axis powers led to increased diplomatic and economic pressure from the Allies.