Inquisition, Inquisitions: aspects of the jews´participation in the brazilian social political life in the 30´s

Abstract

During the Vargas dictatorship, Brazil underwent a strong xenophic, anticommunist process. The sectors in power sought to guarantee that process without making room for the middle and working classe´s new revindications, which had been amplified and differentiated by industrialization and urbanization. Anti-Semitic values present in Brazilian imagery were accentuated by World War II and the assimilation of Getulio, Filinto Muller, Góis Monteiro and the Integralist´s 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 concentrations camps. This investigation was based on life histories.