Right-wing extremism on the Brazilian: The network is discussed on a Video of the German Embassy to inform them about the Nazi time. The debate is driving in from the election campaign polarized the country, however bizarre flowers.
“The Germans do not hide their past.” With this in Portuguese, translated sentence is a Video that the German Embassy in Brasília released a few days ago in social media begins. It should show how German society deals today with national socialism and the Holocaust. However, the instructional video met in a politically turbulent Brazil. On 7. October is here, elected a new President, and currently, the ultra-rights Jair Messias Bolsonaro is leading the race. The country is polarized between “Left” and “Right” to the extreme, where you lose in the heat of the debate the ideological compass.
The Video classified Nazism as an extreme right-wing ideology. It ends with a call to the Federal foreign Minister, Heiko Maas, to oppose the right-wing extremists and not to ignore neo-Nazis and anti-Semites.
Need to catch up on history lessons
The message garnered a lot of comments from Brazilians who were with the classification of Nazism as “extreme right” do not agree. “Was not called Hitler’s party about Partido dos Trabalhadores socialistas (Socialist workers party)? Where the hell’s in there right-wing extremism?”, commented one user, wherein he quoted the official name – national socialist German workers party (NSDAP) – wrong.
Another commented on the Video as follows: “Since the comes from the country that invented Marxism, and in view of the fact that Germany since the war, full of red lice, it is only logical that they distort everything, and the Right-hand at sunrise.” You fly over the comments, it is striking that many of the present Nazism as a left, take the open position for the candidate Bolsonaro.
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In right-wing circles in Brazil, which are usually behind Bolsonaro, it has become in the past few years, it is commonplace to classify Nazism as “left movement”. The main argument is that the Nazi party carries in its name the word “socialist.” Following this logic, it is necessary to view both the democratic people’s Republic of Korea, as well as the past German democratic Republic as democracies, says the German political scientist Kai Michael Kenkel, Professor at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-RJ), compared to the DW.
As another Argument of the supporters of “left Nazism” led to the anti-liberal economic approach and the nationalisation policy of the Nazi regime. This is to forget that the rights of military dictatorship in Brazil (1964-85) had such tendencies. Just like the right-wing Regime of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco.
The national socialism as left-wing ideology was new, a political scientist Kenkel. In Germany, it was finally accepted that Nazism was extreme right. For the political scientist, the discussion in Brazil shows that the history lessons have some catching up to do. In addition, visible parts of the Brazilian society of historical truth of little importance.
Sorry for the country people
Some of the comments on the video went even further and denied even the existence of the Holocaust. The murder of millions of Jews was nothing more than a “Holofraude” – the Portuguese word for fraud fraude. The German Embassy had to respond with a clear Statement: “The Holocaust is a historical fact”.
The German Embassy in Brasilia was forced to a clear clarification
Hundreds of Brazilians showed up in the comments appalled by the denial of the Holocaust. Some asked the Embassy to apologize for the comments of your compatriots. Until Tuesday afternoon, the Video was already shared 30,000 times and a Million times been seen. In addition, it received over a thousand comments.
The idea that Nazism had left roots, widely used for years in Brazil. She is represented by conservative figures such as the journalist Olavo De Carvalho. In 2016, the politician Eduardo Bolsonaro, son of presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro, wrote on Twitter that “Nazism is on the left”. Last year, the right-wing Initiative “Movimento Brasil Livre” (MBL) has published a Video in your mastermind Kim Kataguiri declared that the national socialism was neither left nor Right, but a “totalitarian third way”. Kataguiri, in conservative circles, otherwise, as the ultra-right, earned this criticism from the Right. He had to be carried away of the “left-wing ramblings” to this Statement.