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If you were to ask the average
American today about World War II and the part, if any, Brazil played in
it, they would very likely respond, "didn't they hide Nazis?" and, then,
further assume that Brazil must have actively sided with Hitler and his
Nazi war machine. Nothing could be further from the truth. While
another
large South American country (we'll let you guess which one), in fact,
openly sympathized with Nazi Germany until a mere two months before the
end of the war—their goose-stepping army troops emulating their Nazi Fascist
heroes as they regularly paraded through the capitol in their German style
helmets—Brazil was was actively aiding the Allied cause by providing both
critical air and naval bases as well as deploying the
only Latin
American ground forces to engage, fight and die in combat against the Axis
powers. |