How German Immigration shaped Brazil's History
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- On July 25, 1824, 39 German emigrants arrived in São Leopoldo, southern Brazil, establishing their own colony. Two centuries later, DW reporter Guilherme Becker, whose ancestors emigrated to Rio Grande do Sul, embarks on a personal quest to uncover their story.
Guilherme explores why many Germans, including his grandparents, left their homeland in the 19th and 20th centuries. He learns about the Brazilian government's motivations for encouraging immigration, its connection to the end of slavery, and the impact on the Afro-Brazilian population. In São Paulo, he visits a museum preserving the history of these settlers, and in Pomerode, he meets descendants maintaining their ancestors' lifestyle and language.
In Blumenau, founded in 1850 by Hermann Blumenau, Guilherme discovers the town’s rich German heritage, symbolized by its annual Oktoberfest, and visits an indigenous community affected by colonial land seizure. He also delves into his family's loss of the German language and the role of Nazism. Guilherme visits the Jewish Museum in São Paulo to learn about Jewish exiles helped after the Nazis' rise to power.
Back in Berlin, Guilherme meets Brazilian nurse Thaiana Santos at Charité University Hospital, highlighting the modern parallels of immigration and recruitment.
Join Guilherme on this journey through history, family, and the enduring impacts of immigration in Brazil.
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I'm a Brazilian woman, descended from French, Portuguese, and German immigrants. The German side of my family immigrated to Santa Catarina. As Brazilians, we are very proud of this melting pot of cultures Brazil is. The diversity of cultures have enriched this country a great deal. Very hardworking people with a dream of building a new life. Each one of these new lives have created a precious legacy in the land. Thank you DW for this remarkable documentary! It is so fundamental to register those stories, stories from all people. All people do deserve to be heard and seen and remembered. Quality journalism!
Hi @simonebittencourt8251! It's great to hear that you liked our video 😍
Thank you so much for your words. Saudações de Berlim 😊
@@DWHistoryandCulture I surely did! It was an amazing documentary. Saudações de uma brasileira de descendência também alemã vivendo nos Estados Unidos. Thank you very much! All the best over there in Berlin! 😊
Huge respect to DW for uploading their documentaries in English making them more accessible for much of the world 👏
You're welcome!
But it is a distorted story, because it hides the main chapter, which is the arrival of the Germans from the first two ships hired by Dom Pedro, more than 300 Germans, they settled in Nova Friburgo, state of Rio de Janeiro on May 3, 1824, and were led by Pastor Sauerbronn, the first Lutheran pastor in Brazil and Latin America. These 39 who went south were from the third ship to arrive, Anna Louise.
@@geralbdtCould you elaborate, please? What did those batch of Germans do to the native brazilians? Obrigado.
@@reichen609 Everywhere there were natives, in my city. Nova Friburgo, in the state of Rio de Janeiro, the government (Portugal at the time) ordered the natives to be expelled from the region, so as not to hinder the arrival of the Swiss, most of them from the canton of Friburgo. It was common to treat the natives as nothing more than an obstacle, by the Europeans in general.
300 Germans? You can barely call this an immigration wave.
Excellent documentary, it should be shown in all schools in Brazil and Germany.
I'm a Brazilian, descended from Afro-Brazilians, Spaniards, Portuguese and Germans. I'm proud of my roots and even prouder that Brazil is a diverse and multicultural country. ❤ 🇧🇷
🇧🇷❤️🫡
Who is the criminals of the native Brazil? Where are they now?
No one asked
@@Kriz1366 right on, but the crimes,the prisons,the violences, the flip and flop economy go together with it ..
I love Brazil and wish Brazil good luck ..I am an outsider looking in and make observations ..
Like neighbor Argentina, you and them derserve a booming developed economies but still falter at this point...Wish you all find out a way to bring your nations to par with the rest of the World...
@@jelanthompson2614 your fucking mother asked
My German ancestor Christian Nicolaus Köhnenkamp came from Bremen, even before the first wave along with Swiss immigrants, in 1819, after an invitation from the government of King João VI to colonize Nova Friburgo. Like the vast majority, he came looking for a better life and I hope he achieved it at that time.
I from Nova Friburgo
Thank you for sharing!
There are Germans immigrants almost everywhere, USA , Canada , Brazil , Argentina , Paraguay , Belize , Australia , South Africa , Namibia , thank you for the documentary interesting.
Uruguay too,I met German looking Uruguayan and they were all born in Uruguay along with their grandparents.
My German teacher was born in Chile. He told me there are many Germans in Chile that don't speak Spanish, but just German. Fascinating stuff 👍
@@SonnyDarvishzadehThat’s wild,how have they managed to live among the indigenous Chileans?
@@drewbranch7700 I didn't say they live among others. They just have their own community. The topic was about using the word Kuchen today in Chile and since the teacher is also a historian, he went on telling stories about the origin of the word and mention the presence of Germans themselves there.
russia
His Grandmother had one foot still in Germany. He has one foot still in Brazil.
The riograndenser Hunsrückisch is still very similar to the dialect we speak here in the German Hunsrück. I understand about 80%. My grandma would probably understand 90+ %
Those people should speak the language of the country they migrate to. If they want to speak German, then they should go back to Germany.
I have read and heard many times in the news that Germans dislike Turks, who even after living three generations in Germany, still speak their own language and live in their own communities.
How are these German migrants different from the Turks then !!!
What shameless hypocrisy !!!
If they want to speak this sch-auch-ruck blieb-lauf-kauf nonsense, then they should better go back to Germany.
The German government should recruit Germans-brazilians to work and live in Germany.
Cool! How is the region these days? My grandparents are from Trier, unfortunately I never had the opportunity to go to Germany, I hope to visit one day, I wanted to see if I still have relatives in the region
@@MaverickGamerM Se eu tivesse ancestralidade alemã como você tem, eu já teria tirado minha cidadania e me mudado para lá.
@@Andre.felipe84 , a cidadania alemã não é tão simples de ser obtida.
The countries with the highest number of German descendants in the world are 1⁰ USA, 2⁰ Brazil, 3⁰ Canada...7⁰ Argentina. Furthermore, according to the Italian government, Brazil has the largest number of people with total or partial Italian ancestry in the world. Brazil 35 million, Argentina 25 million and USA 17 million. Brazil also has the largest community of Japanese, Portuguese, Lebanese, etc. Along with the United States on the American continent, Brazil has the largest community of Russians, Poles, Ukrainians, Armenians, Swedes, Dutch, Africans, etc.
Brazil also has the highest Sub-Saharan diaspora.
@@axxessmundi NO, Sub-Saharan diaspora, no, there never was
@Bastard979 lol. 10 million Sub-Saharan slaves went where? Brazil received the most black slaves hence why they have the highest Sub-Saharan diaspora. IBOPE and stats dont lie. You're welcome. Lol
@Bastard979 Since when? Brazil had 10 million Sub-Saharan slaves and now to you they never existed? Lol.
@@Bastard979 Where did 10 million black slaves go? Stop denying facts. IGBE doesn't lie
I am the grandson of Germans and Danes here in Brazil, proud of my origins, I am very happy with the documentary, I dream of still going to Germany, seeing the motherland, hugs to all my german brothers!
@@MaverickGamerM und schwestern, the other half of the population 👌🏼
@@Loufi303 Und Schwestern auch!!
Sehr guter und interessanter Doku. Es hat mir sehr gefallen. Diese Art von Inhalt ist sehr bereichernd
I like documentary movies. I was born and grew in Poland for up to 22 years, and then i emigrated to Usa with no money ,no language, and i made .Live in Usa over 30 years.Nice experience emigrants with experience can make living any place on earth 🌎.
The best part of this film is the singing dog at 26:50. There are other interesting points, but I like the dog.
This is a dog we call caramel, they are very docile.
@@flaviamenezes7301 Thanks, do you mean that this dog is called Caramel or is the kind of dog named Caramel. Regardless, she or he is a treasure.
@@stephanottawa7890 she meant that kind of dog Brazilians call them Caramelos ( caramel in English) they are dogs with no breed , mixed races or stray dogs. They mos common colors are caramel , that’s why their name come from
@@stephanottawa7890 this is what we call brown dogs that don't have a specific breed
@@stephanottawa7890 It's a mutt dog, very common around all Brazil.
Since they don't have any specific race, but most have a very characteristic caramel color, we call them "Caramel dogs". They have become like a meme symbol to the country, as something quintessentially Brazilian.
Thank you DW. :) Being from the USA, I knew of German migration to both North and South America; but I did not realize that Brazil
as well as Argentina had opened its doors to Central European settlers in the early 1800's. I was surprised that the Brazilian government
actively recruited Germans as early as 1831.
The new brasilian emporer at the time had a Habsburg mother from Austria, this could have had an effect on the decision.
Prior even!
@@here_we_go_again2571 The number of Africans forcibly brought to Brazil was in the millions. The exact figures is disputable, but in the 1800's Africans and their descendants were the majority; hence the government, motivated by prejudice, instituted the "branqueamento" program of European migration in great numbers, especially from Germany.
Very Similar to New Orleans Louisiana USA. My family was from Heidelberg, The Speyer and Zeigler Family. The Cemeteries have a Great Many names, Most families broke ties during WW1... I hope to research my fathers families in Germany. My Grandmother found a lot of information on my Austro-Hungarian ancestors from spain the Barcelo family ❤
I live in NOLA and the previous semester I had a professor by the name of Speyrer.
Tem muitas pessoas com o sobrenome Zeigler aqui no sul do Brasil.
@samparker
Do you talking about Heidelberg in Germany?
I'm grown up in this Region and still living there.
@phornthip1991 Excellent, I have photos from my Ancestor and a sword from the 1820's . My Grandmother researched her husband's family tree, however lots of the research materials we still on paper. I would like to find out more about my relatives history.
@@edsoncoldebela9042 👶🏿🇧🇷💩🇧🇷
I'm southern Brazilian myself, not from a German family (Afro + Italian + Portuguese), but I love German culture, and it's people. This documentary is absolutely superb and beyond, touching some points like the indigenous people from the region. I loved it!
They are Brazilians of German descendants or in bigger cities you have many Brazilians of mixed nationalities for example: German and Italian descent or German and Japanese or German and Lebanese descent. Brazil is home to the 2nd largest of German immigration, behind the United States of America.
ukrainians and polish, nas missões.
@@BrazilResearcher Mixed Braziliana are nice people European Brazilian is racist and full of hate.
@@mito88 blacks and Portuguese and spanish
@@mito88 não só nas missões, boa parte do norte riograndense (alto uruguai) e Paraná há muitas colônias de eslavos.
Brazil such like USA but speaking Portuguese, so diverse ethnically
THE Documentary went on time in adding to , It were EXTREMELLY Important to reveals historic events has already forgotten .
The mindset about both Worltilly Countrie's relationship becomes friendilly most due to correct approaches in this regard .
Excellent documentary! Obrigada! Eu passed a minha infância em Curitiba - como filha do cônsul alemão (para o Paraná e Sta. Catarina). Conheci muitos alemães com avôs que tinham vindo da Europa.
Curiosamente, Zimmermann é um sobrenome bastante comum aqui em Santa Catarina.
Well done, DW! Profound and informative (oh, and extra thanks for the English voice over). Danke!
The south of Brazil adulterates the history of the Germans in Brazil. Because the first two ships to arrive, Argos and Caroline, and their passengers, more than 300 Germans, who Dom Pedro sent to colonize Nova Friburgo on May 3, 1824 in the state of Rio de Janeiro, in this group came the first Lutheran pastor in Brazil, Pastor Frederico Sauerbronn. These 39 Germans who went south were from the third ship to arrive, the Anna Louise. They tell the story in half, to highlight the south of Brazil.
We’ll done DW! And Mr Becker!
My ancestor arrived in Brazil in 1824 (Peter Muller/vessel Argos). I now live near Milwaukee, WI USA (another German region) and my sister lives in Luxembourg, EU; but my relatives still live in Novo Hamburg, RS Brazil.
So many memories of cafe colonial, Rolante, Campo Bom e Santa Catarina…
Interesting how now I’m also starting to learn German, as it seems we all skipped a generation!
Thank you for the memories! 🙌
Thanks for sharing your personal experience with the community ☺
Great doc, kudos to DW and Guilherme! A very fun fact is that Thomas Mann, one of the most important german writers, his mother (Júlia da Silva Bruhns) was also Brazilian and a writer, born in Paraty, Rio de Janeiro. Her father was the owner of sugar cane farms in the region.
The first Germans actually already arrived in the 1600s, however, travelling from the Dutch Republic. The Northeast of Brazil was called Dutch Brazil, and since the WIC, West-Indische Compagnie or West India Company needed a lot of soldiers and workforce for Brazil, they also recruited a lot of people who were originally not Dutch, like German, French, Polish, etc. A very important general, Sigismund von Schkoppe, was born in Prussia, and was very important for Dutch successes in Brazil in the 17th century. Also Johan Maurits van Nassau or Mauricio de Nassau was born in Germany. He was governor of Dutch Brazil from 1637-1644 and is very popular in Northeast Brazil, also known as 'the best governor Brazil ever had'.
Yes but the number of germannic people during the dutch period in that region was pretty much smaller than the mass immigration to the southern part of Brazil.
Is"Dutch Brazil" aka Surinam?
@@toomuchinformation two different (ex-)colonies. Dutch Brazil was lost in 1654 due to several reasons
@@toomuchinformationNo, Dutch Brazil As said in the previous comment, it was located in the northeast of Brazil, unless I'm mistaken, the capital was Mauritsstad, named in honor of Johan Maurits, which later returned to be called by its original name Recife, when the Dutch lost the disputes to the Portuguese in the battle of Guararapes which took place between 1648-1649, with the last vessel of Dutchmen returning to Europe in 1654
In 1654, my family left Recife and went to New Amsterdam (New York).
The Espírito Santo state in south east Brazil has a big German population and still speak German dialect.
MENTIRA DA FAMÍLIA ROTHSCHILD ROCKERFELLER. A MAFIA ITALIANA DO ILLUMINATI ENTROU NO BRASIL OFICIALMENTE POR VOLTA DOS ANOS 1880-1889 ONDE OCORRE O GOLPE DE ESTADO DA FAMÍLIA ILLUMINATI DA KHAZARIAN MAFIA, MAFIA ITALIANA. A FAMÍLIA ROTHSCHILD DIVIDIU A ALEMANHA EM UMA GUERRA COM A FAMÍLIA HABSBURGO E A IGREJA CATÓLICA NO SÉCULO 19, POR VOLTA DE 1800-1870, ONDE EM, 1955, A ALEMANHA FOI DIVIDIDA EM DOIS, UM LADO OCIDENTAL E UM LADO ORIENTAL, SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN, QUE REPETIU-SE EM 1940 NA ALEMANHA NAZISTA, DEVIDO A MORTE DA RAINHA DO BRASIL, DA ÁUSTRIA, MARIA LEOPOLDINA.
AS ÚNICAS ENTRADAS OFICIAIS DE ALEMÃES DO BRASIL SÃO NO REINADO DO DOM PEDRO 1 E DA MARIA LEOPOLDINA, AVÓ DE PRINCESA ISABEL DE BRAGANÇA ORLEANS E BOURBON, NETA DA RAINHA DA ALEMANHA DO IMPÉRIO AUSTRO-HÚNGARO. AS ÚNICAS ENTRADAS OFICIAIS E POSSÍVEIS NO BRASIL SÃO PELO RIO DE JANEIRO E PELO ESTADO DO ESPÍRITO SANTO, ONDE TEMOS OS PRIMEIROS ALEMÃES NO BRASIL. PORÉM, TODOS OS ALEMÃES FALECERAM DURANTE A INVASÃO DA MAFIA ITALIANA, KHAZARIAN MAFIA DOS PEDÓFILOS SATANISTAS. A MARIA LEOPOLDINA TROUXE OS PRIMEIROS IMIGRANTES DA ALEMANHA APÓS AS GUERRAS NAPOELONICAS, ONDE OS ALEMÃES ESTAVAM SENDO INVADIDOS PELO EXÉRCITO DE NAPOLEÃO BONAPARTE. TODOS OS DOCUMENTOS ORIGINAIS SÃO DA IGREJA CATÓLICA ROMANA, DOS PADRES QUE FUGIAM COM OS IMIGRANTES ALEMÃES PARA LUGARES DO MUNDO INTEIRO, ESPÍRITO SANTO RECEBEU MILHARES DE ALEMÃES A PARTIR DE 1960, COM A GUERRA DE SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN. E O RIO DE JANEIRO TAMBÉM RECEBIA IMIGRAÇÃO DA ÁUSTRIA ALEMÃ, ENTRETANTO, DE FORMA MAIS DIPLOMÁTICA, E NÃO, FUGIDOS DE GUERRA, COMO A MAIORIA DO CASO DOS ALEMÃES, POR CAUSA DA ÁUSTRIA EM GUERRA COM A FRANÇA ILLUMINATTI SATÂNICA.
A FAMÍLIA ILLUMINATTI ROTHSCHILD-ROCKERFELLER FALSIFICAM TODOS OS DOCUMENTOS E AFUNDARAM O TITANIC NO SÉCULO 20, E JUNTAMENTE DAS FAMÍLIAS SATÂNICAS DE ROMA E DA ITÁLIA DA MAFIA, ASSALTARAM DUAS VEZES O BANCO DE PORTUGAL E O BANCO DO BRASIL NO SÉCULO 19 E EM 1889. A FAMÍLIA ROTHSCHILD CHEGA AO RIO DE JANEIRO OFICIALMENTE NO GOLPE DE ESTADO E MILITAR DA MAFIA ITALIANA EM 1904.
Wherever German immigrants go, those places flourish due to their hard work and diligence
And the natives are wiped out by genocide
Namibia is listening...🤔
And honesty.
Those places flourish for Germans and other Europeans, not the local natives.
Used to be like that. Gone are days of Fleiß, Ehrgeiz, Tapferkeit, Ehrlichkeit.
Great movie - so informative! Really makes you think. I enjoyed hearing the German and the Portuguese snippets in the background as well. The history of both countries is fascinating, as well as the way they interconnected.
The suppression of indigenous people happened everywhere .It happened in America Canada Australia and New Zealand and in Africa.
So the German in Brazil is not alone.
You're right that the suppression of indigenous peoples is a widespread issue. Our video specifically focuses on the history and impact of German immigrants in Brazil.
you forgot India
Doesn’t make it right. Like Israel and its settlers taking over Palestinian lands.
Indigenous people were suppressing and conquering other indigenous peoples.
Happening long before Europeans arrived in those places.
@@DWHistoryandCulture Also cover about Roma people who are leaving extreme conditions in Europe and even they feel ashamed to call themselves Roma. This is a bigger issue.
Brazil is an ethnic melting pot. We are very proud of that. I am an example of this: I am a descendant of Azoreans, mainland Portuguese, Africans, indigenous people, Spanish and British and Dutch shipwrecks and adventurers who settled in my region centuries ago.🇧🇷
Azoreans and mainland Portuguese were the same people...
@@afonsocabral9925 Sim, eu sei. Apenas quis fazer uma distinção geográfica.
The south of Brazil hides the first two ships to arrive, Argos and Caroline, and their passengers, more than 300 Germans, who Dom Pedro sent to colonize Nova Friburgo on May 3, 1824 in the state of Rio de Janeiro. In this group came the first Lutheran pastor of Brazil, Pastor Frederico Sauerbronn. These 39 Germans who went south were from the third ship to arrive, the Anna Louise.
Excellent explanation, so the main chapter is left out.
@@tetofa694 Unfortunately yes
Every commemorative event of immigration has a pioneering ship. In the case of Brazil, the pioneering ship of the Germans does not seem to exist, because it was the Argos, followed by the Caroline, and its passengers were sent to Nova Friburgo (state of Rio de Janeiro), to reactivate a structure abandoned by the Swiss. This story is skipped to highlight the south. No report mentions the name of the first ship to arrive. Why would that be?...
@@geralbdt
Caused of politically correctness of DW.
MENTIRA DA FAMÍLIA ROTHSCHILD ROCKERFELLER. A MAFIA ITALIANA DO ILLUMINATI ENTROU NO BRASIL OFICIALMENTE POR VOLTA DOS ANOS 1880-1889 ONDE OCORRE O GOLPE DE ESTADO DA FAMÍLIA ILLUMINATI DA KHAZARIAN MAFIA, MAFIA ITALIANA. A FAMÍLIA ROTHSCHILD DIVIDIU A ALEMANHA EM UMA GUERRA COM A FAMÍLIA HABSBURGO E A IGREJA CATÓLICA NO SÉCULO 19, POR VOLTA DE 1800-1870, ONDE EM, 1955, A ALEMANHA FOI DIVIDIDA EM DOIS, UM LADO OCIDENTAL E UM LADO ORIENTAL, SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN, QUE REPETIU-SE EM 1940 NA ALEMANHA NAZISTA, DEVIDO A MORTE DA RAINHA DO BRASIL, DA ÁUSTRIA, MARIA LEOPOLDINA.
AS ÚNICAS ENTRADAS OFICIAIS DE ALEMÃES DO BRASIL SÃO NO REINADO DO DOM PEDRO 1 E DA MARIA LEOPOLDINA, AVÓ DE PRINCESA ISABEL DE BRAGANÇA ORLEANS E BOURBON, NETA DA RAINHA DA ALEMANHA DO IMPÉRIO AUSTRO-HÚNGARO. AS ÚNICAS ENTRADAS OFICIAIS E POSSÍVEIS NO BRASIL SÃO PELO RIO DE JANEIRO E PELO ESTADO DO ESPÍRITO SANTO, ONDE TEMOS OS PRIMEIROS ALEMÃES NO BRASIL. PORÉM, TODOS OS ALEMÃES FALECERAM DURANTE A INVASÃO DA MAFIA ITALIANA, KHAZARIAN MAFIA DOS PEDÓFILOS SATANISTAS. A MARIA LEOPOLDINA TROUXE OS PRIMEIROS IMIGRANTES DA ALEMANHA APÓS AS GUERRAS NAPOELONICAS, ONDE OS ALEMÃES ESTAVAM SENDO INVADIDOS PELO EXÉRCITO DE NAPOLEÃO BONAPARTE. TODOS OS DOCUMENTOS ORIGINAIS SÃO DA IGREJA CATÓLICA ROMANA, DOS PADRES QUE FUGIAM COM OS IMIGRANTES ALEMÃES PARA LUGARES DO MUNDO INTEIRO, ESPÍRITO SANTO RECEBEU MILHARES DE ALEMÃES A PARTIR DE 1960, COM A GUERRA DE SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN. E O RIO DE JANEIRO TAMBÉM RECEBIA IMIGRAÇÃO DA ÁUSTRIA ALEMÃ, ENTRETANTO, DE FORMA MAIS DIPLOMÁTICA, E NÃO, FUGIDOS DE GUERRA, COMO A MAIORIA DO CASO DOS ALEMÃES, POR CAUSA DA ÁUSTRIA EM GUERRA COM A FRANÇA ILLUMINATTI SATÂNICA.
A FAMÍLIA ILLUMINATTI ROTHSCHILD-ROCKERFELLER FALSIFICAM TODOS OS DOCUMENTOS E AFUNDARAM O TITANIC NO SÉCULO 20, E JUNTAMENTE DAS FAMÍLIAS SATÂNICAS DE ROMA E DA ITÁLIA DA MAFIA, ASSALTARAM DUAS VEZES O BANCO DE PORTUGAL E O BANCO DO BRASIL NO SÉCULO 19 E EM 1889. A FAMÍLIA ROTHSCHILD CHEGA AO RIO DE JANEIRO OFICIALMENTE NO GOLPE DE ESTADO E MILITAR DA MAFIA ITALIANA EM 1904.
Very good job, Guilherme. What a doc! I'm originally from Santa Catarina and my wife is from Blumenau with deep German route from both sides. I enjoyed every single minute of this documentary and the connections between these two very different countries. Congrats!
Hi @phsousa71! Thank you so much for your words! 😍
We're glad you enjoyed our video. Saudações de Berlim 😊
Ive always wanted to hear about my story. I am Brazilian, but my life is complicated. My parents are both from and grew up in São Paulo, Brazil. My mum’s side has been in Brazil forever and my dads side is complicated, his mother comes from a German family and his father comes from a English family. We are more in constant with the German side though because although my grandma and grandpa are dead, my great grandparents from my dad side aren’t. They’re German and I learn so much about our family from them.
But then there is also me. I grew up in São Paulo, Brazil until the age of 6. Then I moved to Melbourne, Australia. That’s where I know home is. It always felt like home and I’ll never think about Melbourne another way. Until I was 12 and because of my dads job we moved to the UAE. I now live in Dubai and still feel like I’m missing a piece from my family and I want to know more about it.
What a great documentary! I learned so much. Thank you so much.
Then why Germany doesn't bring immigrants from Brazil instead of Islamic countries. Brazil is cristian country so they will integrate easier and better to European society.
@@eoanmo6259 Indeed, specially Brazilians with German ancestry.
No worries, all the Germans and other Europeans will move to South America after losing the war in Europe against the !$L@M!$ts. After all, South America is the continent where people go after losing wars.
what do you mean bring immigrants? Brazilian's are free to go to Germany if they want 😅
Why not bring more and more Muslims and make Germany an Islamic country?
That would make it easier for more Pakistanis to come and integrate.
Think bigger, think smarter. ;)
Basically it’s a plan by the Elites to fill Europe with Muslims. Already over 55 million Muslims in Europe thanks to their importation by the Governments.
This week my country town where I grew up celebrate 300 yrs since the first settlers arrived on, they were germans from border side with France… I was born in Romania but emigrated to Australia in the ‘80s… in 1926 my town in Romania had 4670 germans, 455 Hungarians, 270 Romanians 178 serbians… very hard working people such a beautiful memories I have from my childhood… ❤
The south of Brazil adulterates the history of the Germans in Brazil. Because the first two ships to arrive, Argos and Caroline, and their passengers, more than 300 Germans, who Dom Pedro sent to colonize Nova Friburgo on May 3, 1824 in the state of Rio de Janeiro, in this group came the first Lutheran pastor in Brazil, Pastor Frederico Sauerbronn. These 39 Germans who went south were from the third ship to arrive, the Anna Louise. They tell the story in half, to highlight the south of Brazil.
@adrianahalmi
Which City in Romania?
I'm Brazilian and a mix of German, Portuguese, Czech and African descent
brabo, salve meu irmao ❤
Im have hebrew, arab, greek, african, red indigenous and iberic DNA, Im from northeast Brazil
Italian, spanish, portuguese, indigenous and african here
I have Portuguese, Italian, Indigenous and Dutch blood, but I never done an ancestry test so I maybe I am wrong about the Indigenous and Dutch ancestry, but I am sure that I have Portuguese and Italian blood, because both of my surnames came from North Italy
Red indigenous ??? That sounds weird to say
Excellent commentry. Brought me so much information. Wonderful.
But it is a distorted story, because it hides the main chapter, which is the arrival of the Germans from the first two ships hired by Dom Pedro, more than 300 Germans, they settled in Nova Friburgo, state of Rio de Janeiro on May 3, 1824, and were led by Pastor Sauerbronn, the first Lutheran pastor in Brazil and Latin America. These 39 who went south were from the third ship to arrive, Anna Louise.
lovely and very informative documentary. We in india know very little about brazilian history and this documentary was not only so well made but also taught me a lot about migration history in Brazil. Thanks for this.
Thanks for your comment! So glad you liked it!
The south of Brazil adulterates the history of the Germans in Brazil. Because the first two ships to arrive, Argos and Caroline, and their passengers, more than 300 Germans, who Dom Pedro sent to colonize Nova Friburgo on May 3, 1824 in the state of Rio de Janeiro, in this group came the first Lutheran pastor in Brazil, Pastor Frederico Sauerbronn. These 39 Germans who went south were from the third ship to arrive, the Anna Louise. They tell the story in half, to highlight the south of Brazil.
We don't want alien immigrants here, we don't accept strange people, things work differently here. Learn, but learn about us from afar.
A comunidade descendentes de Alemães no Brasil so é menor que a dos Estados Unidos. Somos 10 milhões de descendentes teutonicos espalhados no centro e sul do Brasil. 🇧🇷 🇩🇪
@@SofieFurtwangler Brazil has 240 million people!
@@koushikdas1992 and?
@@koushikdas1992215 million***
@@SofieFurtwangler en estados unidos son 48 millones.
Tu comparación es algo tonta.
@@koushikdas1992
203 million actually.
I have a Nigerian father and German mother. I live in London, UK where I was born. I love learning about the history of the German diaspora and this is a fantastic feature. I wish I could say the documentary made me proud throughout, but obviously bad choices were made by the colonisers and their descendants. Nevertheless, they (the German-Brazilians) have clung onto their heritage and culture more than I have against the odds. They should be proud of that.
If your father is Nigerian you are not German, do you imagine that if you came to Brazil and had a child born here he would be Brazilian? learn to be proud of your original people and their culture and leave the European people alone. And please don't come here, we're more radical here if you know what I mean.
@Eurafrican
There are many Books to overcome your odds against the Germans.
Anyway for me the best 2 Books are written by 2 Scottish Historians, Gerry Docherty and Jim MacGregor, who had access to British Military Archives.
These books also helping to understand which Evil Forces mess up our World until today.
Google:
Hidden History: The Secret Origins of the First World War.pdf
and
Prolonging the Agony: How the Anglo-American Establishment Deliberately Extended WWI by Three-And-A-Half Years.pdf
German Translations:
Verborgene Geschichte:
Wie eine geheime Elite die Menschheit in den 1. Weltkrieg stürzte.pdf
and
Der Krieg, der nicht enden durfte : wie das anglo-amerikanische Establishment den Ersten Weltkrieg absichtlich in die Länge zog.pdf
Anybody WHO is interesting in the Truth should reading these Books.
@Eurafrican
There are many Books to overcome your odds against the Germans.
Anyway for me the best 2 Books are written by 2 Scottish Historians, Gerry Docherty and Jim MacGregor, who had access to British Military Archives.
These books also helping to understand which Evil Forces mess up our World until today.
Google:
Hidden History: The Secret Origins of the First World War.pdf
and
Prolonging the Agony: How the Anglo-American Establishment Deliberately Extended WWI by Three-And-A-Half Years.pdf
German Translations:
Verborgene Geschichte:
Wie eine geheime Elite die Menschheit in den 1. Weltkrieg stürzte.pdf
and
Der Krieg, der nicht enden durfte : wie das anglo-amerikanische Establishment den Ersten Weltkrieg absichtlich in die Länge zog.pdf
Anybody WHO is interesting in the Truth should reading these Books.
@Eurafrican
There are many Books to overcome your odds against the Germans.
Anyway for me the best 2 Books are written by 2 Scottish Historians, Gerry Docherty and Jim MacGregor, who had access to British Military Archives.
These books also helping to understand which Evil Forces mess up our World until today.
Google:
Hidden History: The Secret Origins of the First World War.pdf
and
Prolonging the Agony: How the Anglo-American Establishment Deliberately Extended WWI by Three-And-A-Half Years.pdf
German Translations:
Verborgene Geschichte:
Wie eine geheime Elite die Menschheit in den 1. Weltkrieg stürzte.pdf
and
Der Krieg, der nicht enden durfte : wie das anglo-amerikanische Establishment den Ersten Weltkrieg absichtlich in die Länge zog.pdf
Anybody WHO is interesting in the Truth should reading these Books.
@@User35675….According to YOUR belief system she “isn’t German” -according to the rest of us, she’s fully half German ( and if you ever visited Germany, you would see many mixed-race GERMANS)….
Keep that tribalism away from us
I grew up in a part of Romania that was heavily influenced by the German culture. I have lived and traveled to all continents and visited many German areas in North and South America, Africa, etc. and I can tell you this: wherever the Germans settled, they brought culture and civilization to that place. Sure, they have skeletons in their closets, but what people doesn't? Thank you for this documentary - I always recommend my students your channel, you have outstanding programs and I never get tired of watching them. Danke.
You are very right. More than 100 years ago, the Germans brought railways to Cameroon and to my hometown. Today, those railway lines dont exist.
My family from my mom's side immigrated from Germany to Brazil in 1888. They lived in Jaraguá do Sul for decades. My dad's side of the family immigrated from Berlin to Brazil in 1941, first to São Paulo (which they hated), but later they settled in Santa Catarina. Today, we are back in Germany. We are proud German-Brazilians.
Meine Familie mütterlicherseits wanderte 1888 von Deutschland nach Brasilien aus. Sie lebten jahrzehntelang in Jaraguá do Sul. Die Familie meines Vaters wanderte 1941 von Berlin nach Brasilien aus, zuerst nach São Paulo (das sie hassten), aber später ließen sie sich in Santa Catarina nieder. Heute sind wir wieder in Deutschland. Wir sind stolze Deutsch-Brasilianer.
THANK you to share your live experiences with us .
Thanks for sharing your story!
Zurück nach Deutschland zu gehen, war aus heutiger Sicht nicht unbedingt die beste Entscheidung.
Meu bisavô veio nessa época também! Desembarcou em Santos
@@phornthip1991 может она хочет принять ислам и жить по шариату
I have been watching DW documentaries for some time. They are simply the best in the business.
the same was with Poles in Brasil they also were forbidden to speak Polish. They also settled in Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina.
@@grafsmigiel7003 Now mostly they speak Portuguese
yes they do they didn;t have any other choice but in my opinion they could speak both@@yohanapereira1629
Amazing documentary!! Congrats to all involved in making it happen.
Now i can finally forward it to some friends who ask why I am Brazilian but still remain so german in my habits even though the first immigrants from my family came in 1830. As it is pointed out in the documentary some communities remain very isolated and kept their traditions!! I am from one of them.
Great job❤❤❤
Glad you enjoyed it 💓
14:57 “we were the better kind of Brazilians” …
The racism and feeling of superiority that shows … 😮
Despite our social and political problems, Brazil will always have its doors open to anyone in the world.
Thanx for posting it! Very interesting at all.
I'm a German-descent Brazilian myself. I've already talked about German immigration in Brazil with two Germans in different times, one a doctor in Sweden when I studied there in 2005 and other one some months ago here in Brazil, and both smirked about it. Ignorance and prejudice both walk together in today's German society.
Ignorantes!
Então amigo bem vindo a comunidade brasileira, aqui é seu lugar.
De onde cada um de nós viemos importa muito pouco
Interesting to observe, after some 200 years of immigration to Brazil, they still manage to look so white, blonde and blue eyes. That’s probably 8-9 generations, that tells something about German society
That's because the Southern region of Brazil is majority White and the States of Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina and Paraná are inhabited by descendents of German, italians and polish immigrants.
In Rio Grande do Sul, where Gisele Bundchen was born, it's very common to find a mixture of Germans and italians. Xuxa Meneghel, Tv star who had a tv program in USA in the 90's, is a example of that.
In the South and Southeast we only preserve our people, just as we wish the same for all ethnicities in Brazil.
German women until the 20-30s in Brazil had a fertility rate with an average of 10 children, they lived in small towns that grew over time into german communities/colonies, and when they mixed with other people of different origins, the majority were of Italian, Austrian origin
Just as there was strong Polish and Ukrainian immigration in the state of Paraná, they had their own communities, but generally ended up mixing, I know many people here with this mixture
@@Andre.felipe84
The Italian, of Northern Italy are Germanic Tribes, not only Südtirol, but entire Lombardy (Langobarden).
You can find native Italians blond and Red Hair in Sicily who living for Centuries there.
@@LottiBR
These German PPL WHO had a lot of Children and lived in Colonies was mainly Mennonites.
The documentary was very good, but unfortunately something very important was missing. The first German colony in Brazil was in Nova Friburgo in the state of Rio de Janeiro. Nothing was mentioned in this video and it is something very important in which there was a peaceful colony and a large number of Germans. In fact, much bigger than cities mentioned in the video
Thanks for your comment. You’re right, Nova Friburgo's significance in German immigration is huge.
@@DWHistoryandCulture Maybe it will be possible to make a second part or a video about new Friburgo☺️ there were 342 Germans who stayed in the lands where the Swiss already lived. This is not a small thing or irrelevant.
Very interesting documentary but at the same time very familiar for every immigration including language barrier, cultures differences, land grabbing etc. I myself experienced all.
very informative ! as usual high quality presentation !
Wow, my family name is Becker, and I've been trying to put together a family tree but keep hitting dead ends. My great grandfather and his little brother came to Canada in1900.. They same part of Germany has come up in my research but I've never found anything...
@nextgenerationseedco
May I can helping you, but Becker is a very Common Name in Germany.
Until 1650 AD is possible to Tracking Back, but when you lost the Spur in Canada then it's probably hopeless.
In 2024, Brazil will celebrate 200 years of German immigration into the country. The arrival of the first German immigrants to Brazil occurred on July 25, 1824, when a group of around 4 thousand people disembarked in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul.
Since then, German immigrants have contributed significantly to the development of Brazil, bringing knowledge, culture, technology and work. They settled mainly in the southern and southeastern regions of the country, where they founded cities, schools, clothing, industries and preserved their culture and traditions.
German immigration to Brazil is an important part of the country's history and is celebrated through various festivals, events and monuments that highlight the influence and contribution of these people to the formation of Brazilian society. The 200th anniversary of German immigration will be an opportunity to remember and value this rich cultural heritage.
yes....ask native people
@@geoms6263 Native mud people you mean?
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@@stevenobinator2229⚪️ 🗑
@@geoms6263there were no natives. It was an almost empty land.
The best and most powerful part of this documentary is the exchange about the Indigenous peoples and what the Europeans did to them, and how still to this day no one wants to talk about it. Shame.
Actually nobody cares about the indigenous, people need much more than they can provide with their worldview. Humans would be starving in brazil without german like people
People from that region refuse to admit that their European ancestors got free or super cheap land that was stolen from the indigenous people.
And it was a privilege only given to Europeans, the rest of Brazilian never had anything like that.
@@__-fb6rc Reality, if indigenous people controlled the land people would be starving
@@stevenobinator2229 well, they controlled the land for 11.000 years before Europeans arrived and food was always plenty according to Europeans observations of the indigenous lifestyle.
@@stevenobinator2229 you are just edgy and not very smart 🤣
I'm brazilian and my family has a similar story. my mother still tries to this day to trace back our ancestors and we only recently have found the documents of her grandmother's arrival from germany. I'm still brazilian, so it doesn't matter much to me, but I wonder if there's family out there trying to find us as much as my mum is wholeheartedly devoted to the quest. it's a good feeling to know where you come from. and who your family are
Nice documentary work. Danke.
Story telling by the video is superb.
Germany as a monolithic state came later than the emigration. The emigration was for socio-economic reasons. Farmers mainly emigrated for improving their status, as industry was limited 200 years ago. Economic reasons related to wars and taxation may have been the other cause driving emigration.
Very good video that people can appreciate.
So glad you liked it!
I'm 12% German from Brandenburg, West Prussia now West Pomerania, East Brandenburg now Lubusz Voivodship and Royal Prussia now Greater Poland Voivodship. Thanks for the documentary.
I wonder what would happen if instead of having a very large Italian areas in Brazil and Argentina.
Brazil has more Germans mainly from Prussia all of the Prussian/Czechoslovakian/Hungarian/Roman dialects became extinct in Europe are still spoken in Brazil.
These dialects sound exactly the same in Europe in Brazil and Argentina, but they won't go extinct in Brazil and Argentina.
I mean no disrespect to the Brazilian/Argentine Italian descendants I just want the dialects from the German expulsions to still be spoken and thriving.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
Do speak Pomeranean?
@@lucasrodrigues9766 no I don't
I was a Portuguese major in college, and took many classes on the history of Brazil. A lot of this I remember studying in school. Such a great video! Parabéns 🎉
Obrigada!
My wife is a german-brazilian (third generation) like the ones in the video. When we travel to the USA, she has to "explain herself", because of the blonde hair and green eyes.
She needs to go back to Germany.
Immigration around the world has been a disaster. European migration completely destroyed the Native communities. The irony is that Germans who want a homogeneous state also happen to be one of the biggest migratory people in the world.
Why does she have to explain herself? Because I'm blonde with blue eyes?
@@Patrick-kd2qz because gringos are very ignorant
Americans still have the Brazilian stereotype that everyone in Brazil is black, in 2024 and Americans seem to have no access to the internet
@@Patrick-kd2qz what I mean is that: in the USA, some people ask her how a brazilian woman (AKA Latina), can look like a North European. They have no idea about immigrants in Brazil.
I'm here, grandson of germans, my grandpa fought in WW2.
@@robertoboehler-blumenau-sc8818 Espera aí... Lutou de qual lado? Eixo?
@@whostolemycat8058 sim
Que orgulho 🤣🤣🤣
Fascinating piece. Thank you. South American history deserves far more coverage - in English.
Indeed! Glad you liked it.
I am Brazilian and the grandson of Germans on my mother's side. My paternal grandmother was also German, and my paternal grandfather was from Denmark.
I'd love to visit..their town looks nice 💞 from uk with dutch russian and spanish heritage icelandic scottish and irish..i know.. it's a lot
@@annychest718 Not a lot for Brazilian standards. Most people in Brazil descend from multiple nationalities. You'll be very welcome.
My mother's side of the family emigrated to Chile in the 1860s. Germany was in bad shape because of the civil wars and the US and Chile/Spain were giving free land in Texas and Patagonia, which were unpopulated and bordered by their rivals. The Spanish wanted immigrants that wouldn't ally with Portuguese or the British. Germany was not an ally of either country. So they accepted German Catholics, who they thought would not ally with the protestant British, and the German protestants went to texas and founded places like New Braunfels. There was a bishop in Germany who facilitated the sorting.
Many Italian immigrants went to Argentina and the joke is that Chile runs like it was designed by germans and Argentina works like it was designed by Italians.
If you look at pictures of places like Puerto Varas, which were settled by Germans, the buildings look like you are in Bavaria. In Argentina, they look like you are in Tuscany.
Yes, the food is always the thing that is never lost. My mother grew up eating german pastries ( Kuchen). In Valdivia, the first and most prestigious private school in the South teaches kids German, not English.
Its fascinating to see the Brazilian side of the german inmigrant story. Well done.
Global migration was majorly based on economic/ financial reasons back then as it is now. The direction of migration has changed multiple times over centuries. Thanks DW for another great documentary!
15:05 also wars in Europe, food shortages and increased population.
The Napoleonic wars brought my Austro-Hungarian relatives to New Orleans Louisiana.
Thanks for your comment! So glad you liked the video 😊
Yeah, the main difference being, no one went anywhere without an invitation.
@@hayreddinbarbarossa4686 seriously you are not hearing how the indigenous people have complaints? way to be delusional
Very interesting documentary! The brother of my great grandfather was the Mayor of our small village me and my family still live in today. He had to step down as Mayor and left South Tyrol in 1934 for Brazil (“Treze Tílias/Dreizehnlinden”) due to political persecution from the Italian fascists against the German minority. Unfortunately, I have no contact to my Brazilian relatives, but if it’s god’s will that might change in the future.
This documentary was just a fraction of the huge German diaspora in Brazil. There is absolutely more depth to German Brazilian history.
Brazilian culture is always prosperous and indefatigable through the centuries.
What other aspects of German-Brazilian history do you think deserve more attention?
@@DWHistoryandCulture Der Beginn der lutherischen Kirche mit der Ankunft von Pfarrer Sauerbronn.
This has given me a really good insight into what happened with the immigrants who were incentivise to live in Brazil..to celebrate their ancestry and to keep the culture and language alive..I have parents who came to Australia from war torn Europe..climate and language being the most difficult to overcome..they had German ancestry who emigrated to Russia..living in St Petersburg..invited by Catherine the great to immigrate ..thankyou for this podcast.
Please talk about the Japanese migration! Their our second most immigrants of all time. Brazil and Japan will complete 130 years of friendship next year
It is amazing that Britain blockaded the slave trade, yet at the same time promoted indentureship from its colonies especially India, where indentured laborers were treated just as bad and sometimes worse than slaves. 😢
- sorry to disagree. It is not always the case. Also the indigenous population was more cruel as a mater of personality. Generally speaking, humans are humans , why it is always exploited against the governing class?
People should be fair in judging. But they are not. Also the context should be understood.
Catholic Germans migrated there. Because Brasil designed as a catholic heaven. As a result of unsafe living environment in "Germany" because of sectarian conflicts catholics seek refuge in a more catholic environment of Brasil.
Today those days are over but sectarian rivalry is very alive in German culture.
No, german cities in Brazil are largely Lutheran.
They are protestants
@@karineds fake
@@karineds Is it another christian sect!?
Nobody cares about God not in Germany neither in Brazil both are influenced with masonic Satanism, they just use it for financial and political reasons. It's disgusting how migrants are arrived thinking the way to acceptance is being a stereotype.
There was a quite high German Immigration to Peru to in the middle of the 19th century mainly going to the central Andes of Peru. It was an Area they considered their Promised Land. And actually Not Only from Germany but also from Austria and even from Switzerland. However today their descendants don't speak no longer German but Only Spanish. Greetings from Peru
É tão triste saber que os escravizados após serem libertos nem mesmo tiveram a oportunidade de ter um trabalho remunerado, foram deixados a própria sorte, sem trabalho sem nada, preferiram trazer pessoas de fora para dar terras e emprego, isso explica a desigualdade que o Brasil vive até hoje, penso que a imigração foi positiva porém deveria ter sido dado oportunidade primeiro aos que estavam aqui😢
Queixa-te à República
Com certeza muitos ex- escravizados após a abolição também não queriam esse tipo de trabalho em fazendas mais e continuariam sendo explorados com salários de fome. Restou muitíssima gente e descendentes disponíveis para trabalhos pesados ou que não requeriam estudos e mesmo com a grande imigração de europeus etc., até hoje ainda há muita gente disponível para esses trabalhos e por isso os salários não sobem, dificultando que mais negros/mestiços ascendam socialmente em curto tempo. Vai levar muito tempo ainda até uma total absorção, considerando que o país continua recebendo muitos imigrantes pobres de países vizinhos etc.
The Germans are very welcome in Brazil and are part of our nation-building. However, the reason for their arrival was partly to whiten the population and make it less black, exactly as Argentina did.
Generalized dear.
Not true.
Thanks for this interesting documentary! The connection with my German relatives, Eggerath, were pretty much similar to yours.
Very interesting. Thanks for posting.
You could say the same about Japan, Italy, Portugal, Syria, Lebanon and many others countries, we're blessed for that.
Thank you very much for sharing your story and the true history.
You are a very thorough, honest, and talented documentarian!
Great historic account, thank you
The south of Brazil adulterates the history of the Germans in Brazil. Because the first two ships to arrive, Argos and Caroline, and their passengers, more than 300 Germans, who Dom Pedro sent to colonize Nova Friburgo on May 3, 1824 in the state of Rio de Janeiro, in this group came the first Lutheran pastor in Brazil, Pastor Frederico Sauerbronn. These 39 Germans who went south were from the third ship to arrive, the Anna Louise. They tell the story in half, to highlight the south of Brazil.
One of the greatest accomplishments done by the Brazilian government back in those years of late 1920's is to support these newcomers into Brazil to be relocated with accessibility to affordable land in order to help improve gradually the Brazilian economy with needed skilled workers in agriculture basically. As things were changing overtime so their lives and activities in the shaping of the economy grew. Today Brazil, being one of the most diverse country as well as Argentina and Chile in South America have the privilege to enjoy a different socio cultural and industrial development brought mainly through the earliest immigration who were hardworking and determinant persons who took the opportunity to challenge life with all its risks and advantages.
Thanks DW documenting this interesting history still unknown to the vast majority of people. Its the enrichment that gives flavour to many part of the Latin sense of belonging.
well done, very balanced documentary
Que historia, parabens por ter encontrado a familia, a História da sua avó me emocionou muito, isso disso acontecia muito naquela epoca.
We brazilians are grateful to imigrants from germany for your haritge here. ❤
This was amazing for me. I had no idea Germans emigrated to southern Brazil in the late 1800s. My husband’s maternal ancestors were Catholic Germans from Bohemia who sailed from Bremerhaven to New York in the 1870s. They attended Mass in German at a German Catholic church in Lower Manhattan but the next generation did not want to speak Deutsch anymore because they wanted to be American. 😅
Take a look at videos "Blumenau - Brazil" and "Gramado - Southern Brazil", for instance.
The U.S. is not the only immigrant country.
i'm brazillian of german descent but my family's case is different, they're not part of tbis first immigration to the south, they came from east germany in the late 1970s, and went to the northeast.
Bem diferente, mas no nordeste já tiveram muito holandeses, da onde devem descender boa parte dos loiros na parte norte do nordeste. São um povo bem semelhante.
@@whostolemycat8058 vc se surpreenderia, com quanto loiro tu ve por aq, eu sou paulista alias, e agr to em brasilia
And that's why I am always spelling my last name for people.
@@FelipeHenchen I feel you, brother.
@FelipeHenchen
Why?
"Words build bridges into unexplored regions."
I find it ironically that nowadays Germany needs more people because of low birth rate..I think Germany has to go to South Brazil and recruits back many Brazilian descendents back to Germany... Time is ripe for Germany to that knowing that average income in Germany 5 times that of Brazilian.
Lol really? The way we live is going to change drastically in the next hundred years. Having more people on this rock is going to speed up that change.
Italy could easily do the same, but your average Italian, as well as you average German, have no ideia this people exist, and, no European government would want to be seen as discriminating in favor of ethnic germans/italians when it comes to immigration. When the German national team went to Brazil to play the World Cup, they made a quick visit to the southner states, but decided to stay in the state of Bahia, which is known for having the biggest population of african descent outside Africa. Surely they couldn't stay in the South, what would people think, right? German have to prove al the time that they are not racists. People in Germany don't even recognize this people as "German".
Irony is that those who feign victimization from Germany after WW2, are the same people who created the slave trade in the first place. With the extended added irony of their treatment of people in Palestine and Gaza.
@ rock3times
What makes you think that people of racial/ethnic German descent in Brazil or Argentina, would want to move to Germany
or, for that matter, Europe?
@@here_we_go_again2571 I think the GDP per capita is an attraction .In the clip, we see two examples, a nurse and the narrator himself moved to Germany.I realized that after so many years, these German-Brazilian has integrated into Brazil society so the choices are up to individuals .The frustration of South Brazil is palpable .Many are frustrated and furious with the current economy and political corruption in Brazil that holds down Brazil potential.The talk about autonomy and secession is not new..
There are more Germans outside Germany than Chinese outside China. It is staggering the amount of German migration to the rest of the world. They are the largest ethnic group in the US.
the anglos are everywhere
Not anymore. Now you have more people from middle / south america in the usa.
@@alleaufihreposition not on my watch, brazil is the largest in population in south america and there's less than 1% in usa, you must be talking about mexicans, they are north americans
West and Central Europeans are the largest group of migrants in the world... Canada, US, Latin America, Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania....
@@BrasilNewsN Brazil is not only country of South America.
I appreciate DW not white-washing the story. It's a honest documentary with the good and the bad.
Ich bin Brasilianer, Urenkel von Deutschen väterlicherseits und Österreichern mütterlicherseits.Mein Urgroßvater Jakob Bischoff und Maria Seidl meine Urgroßmutter kamen Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts von München nach São Paulo und ich bin sehr stolz auf meine deutschen Wurzeln. In Brasilien gibt es mehr als 15 Millionen deutsche Nachkommen.
Excellent documentary with good quality filming.Thank you.
É incrível e surpreendente , ver em pleno século XXI que aqui no Brasil , as raízes européias ainda preservam as culturas de seus ancestrais , mesmo com todas as mudanças que ocorreram ao longo de 200 anos de imigração.
Brazil is certainly an exception to that. The Germans that went there were the Germans nowhere else would accept.
Ignorante! 🙄
@@DanDanJanJanJP oh wow I am sure 💀poor them
@@tinkabella2000 You see. You must be a descendant of those Germans no one but Brazil wanted back in the day. Still uneducated and incapable of forming proper sentences.
Sou descendente de alemão, meu bisavós chegaram no Brasil em 1890!
Interesting video. I don’t understand how the German settlers justified murdering the indigenous while professing Christianity. They were Christian in name only, not in practice.
At least for a certain period, part of the Catholic Church and the colonizers considered the indians as inferior and soulless beings. In other words, it was a green light for slaughter. Today the world is strange, but in the past it was worse.
It was probably not the immigrants that murdered the indigenous people, but the Portuguese, since they owned the land before the immigrants and sold to them.
The Portuguese and Luso-Brazilians were the ones that organized expeditions to explore and occupy the inner lands of Brazil, displacing and killing indigenous people along the way. The conflicts between immigrant farmers and indigenous people were probably minor in comparison.