![]() ![]() After months of torpedoing Brazilian merchant ships (21 German and 2 Italian submarines were responsible for the sinking of 36 Brazilian merchant ships, causing 1,691 shipwrecks and 1,074 deaths, which was the main reason that led to Brazil's declaration of war on Germany and Italy), the people took to the streets and the Brazilian government declared war on Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy in August 1942.Īt the time, Brazil was a country with an illiterate majority of the population living in rural areas. In 1942, amidst economic incentives and diplomatic pressure, the Americans installed aircraft bases along the Brazilian North- Northeast coast. In February 1942, German and Italian submarines torpedoed Brazilian ships in the Atlantic Ocean in retaliation for Brazil's adherence to the commitments of the Atlantic Charter (which provided for automatic alignment with any nation of the American continent that was attacked by an extra-continental power), making its neutrality only theoretical. Brazilian propaganda announcing the declaration of war to the Axis powers on November 10, 1943.īrazil, although at the time being commanded by a dictatorial regime sympathetic to the fascist model (the Estado Novo regime) of the Axis countries, ended up participating in World War II (1939-1945) on the side of the Allied forces.
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