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Brazil officially entered World War II on August 22, 1942, when it declared war against the Axis powers, including Germany and Italy. On February 8, 1943, Brazil formally joined the Allies upon signing the Declaration by United Nations .
In the years leading up to World War II, Brazil was the biggest non-European consumer of German products and ranked ninth among Germany's trading partners overall. It also hosted a large and influential German community that engendered closer ties to Germany.
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]
The Oxford Companion to World War II (2005), comprehensive encyclopedia for all countries; Eccles, Karen E. and Debbie McCollin, eds. World War II and the Caribbean (2017) excerpt; Frank, Gary. Struggle for hegemony in South America: Argentina, Brazil, and the United States during the Second World War (Routledge, 2021). Friedman, Max Paul.
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.
Under Getúlio Vargas's government, during World War II, when Brazil broke off diplomatic relations with Germany (and also with the other Axis Powers, Italy and Japan), the use of the German language was repressed: teaching German in schools and publication of German newspapers were forbidden (together with Italian and Japanese). [45]
The Battle of Collecchio-Fornovo (26–29 April 1945) was a battle of the Second World War between the Brazilian Expeditionary Force (Força Expedicionária Brasileira – FEB), along with Italian partisans and units from the American 1st Armored and 92nd Infantry Divisions, against the Wehrmacht ' s 148th Infantry Division, 90th Panzergrenadier Divisions and the fascist National Republican ...
The Araraquara was a Brazilian cargo and passenger ship, sunk on the night of August 15, 1942, by the German U-boat U-507, off the coast of the state of Sergipe.. She was the seventeenth Brazilian ship to be attacked (and the second to be attacked by the U-507), causing the death of 131 of the 142 people on board.