ABSTRACT
This article discusses texts published by the Brazilian researcher Henrique da Rocha Lima in the Jornal do Commercio during the first year of the “Great War”. Rocha Lima wrote his impressions from Hamburg, where he said he had first-hand information with which sought to discuss reports by French and British agencies. The Allied propaganda found a fertile ground in Brazil, which was favored by the francophile of our elites. The Brazilian researchercombated the idea that Germany was causing the war, and denied what he saw as calumny and lies spread by the allies, as news about the atrocities committed by the Germans in enemy territory. Rocha Lima’s engagement was in the opposite trends of the Brazilian scholars and scientific world, for the most part friendly to the Allied cause, what also represents his public profile that would become the hallmark of his career.
First World War; Henrique da Rocha Lima; press