During the Vargas dictatorship, Brazil underwent a strong xenophobic, anticommunist process. The sectors in power sought to guarantee that process without making room for the middle and working classes’ new revindications, which had been amplfied and differentiated by industrialization and urbanization. Anti-Semitic values present in Brazilian imagery were accentuated by World War II and the assimilation of Getúlio, Filinto Muller, Góis Monteiro and the Integralists’ to the Nazis. The Inquisition and the Catholic Church’s contributions to the formation of Brazilian mentality created conditions which allowed Jews living in Brazil to be deported to concentration camps. This investigation was based on life histories.
Anti-Semitism - Brasil: deportations; life histories