Brazilian Secretary of State for Culture Jair Bolsonaro was removed from office on Friday, January 17, according to Brazilian media, the day after a video was broadcast by his services. In this speech of just over six minutes, Roberto Alvim paraphrases a speech by the former Minister of Propaganda of Nazi Germany, Joseph Goebbels.
In the video, the Secretary of State for Culture, who praises the creation of a new cultural prize, repeats sentences very close to those of Joseph Goebbels: "Brazilian art for the next decade will be heroic and national. will be endowed with a great capacity for emotional involvement and will be just as imperative, because it is deeply linked to the urgent aspirations of our people ... Otherwise it will not be. "
According to the book "Goebbels: a Biography", by Peter Longerich, the idealizer of Nazi propaganda had made a similar speech, observes the daily O Globo: "The German art of the next decade will be heroic, strongly romantic, objective and devoid of sentimentalism, national with great pathos and just as imperative and restrictive ... Otherwise it will not be. "
Roberto Alvim, after a wave of outrage on social media, called the comparisons to the speech by former Minister Adolf Hitler "unfortunate rhetorical coincidence". "There is no problem with this sentence. was based on a nationalist ideal for Brazilian art and there is a coincidence ", he defended himself, saying however that" the sentence in itself is perfect ".
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Posted by Roberto Alvim on Friday January 17, 2020The controversy is not due only to the words of the Secretary of State. In the video, the opera "Lohengrin" by Richard Wagner, German composer celebrated by Nazi Germany, can also be heard in the background, notes O Globo.
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