Fun fact: despite being a dictator for about 15 years in Brazil, after Vargas was ousted from the government he winned an election to senator, and then president in 1951. It's like Napoleon coming from Elba; our Waterloo was his suicide in 1954.
@@jufref There was a journalist named Carlos Lacerda, who was a fervent opponent of Vargas (more like a politician, then), and after Vargas, he was expected to win the presidential race. However, a guy in Vargas's guard chimped out and independently shot Lacerda. He survived, and launched a campaign against Vargas (a conspiracy, more of a kind) and rumours of coups started taking place. So, alone in the Catete Palace, he shot himself, showing to the whole country the real nature of Lacerda, basically ruining his chance of grasping the power he so grossly aspired in the subsequent election.
Just a minor mistake: Brasilia didn't exist during Vargas' lifetime. It was inaugurated in April 21st 1960. Back then the capital of Brazil was Rio. Aside from that, great video!
I was thinking exactly the same, but yeh I'm gonna let this slide just for now as it's a little pedantic and not very important in the overall video and its subject matter.
I think this is the only instance where a foreigner mistakes Brazil's capital for Brasilia. Usually, they assume it's still Rio de Janeiro! 😃 (In their defense, though, Rio was Brazil's capital for almost 200 years.)
In Brazil, we learn that Vargas was a pragmatist leader. He waited till the last second to join the war, as he wanted to be on the winners side. That said, as an authoritarian dictator allying with democracies to fight dictatorships , he knew that eventually his power would come to an end, and just accepted it. Edit: When I said that he "accepted it", I was only referring to his authoritarian rule. 5 years after being deposed as a dictator, he was democratically elected president, and upon realizing he would be deposed again due to yet another political crisis, he committed suicide.
Brazil is famous for coup d'etats backed by the army. Monarchy was abolished in a coup, Vargas get to power in a coup, Vargas was almost taken from power by a coup and ten years later we got a coup (1964) which lasted more than 20 years. Even the "legal" impeachment of our former president Dilma Roussef was backed by the military (some generals spoke about getting her out of power before 2014, and that if the congress didn't act, they would do) Nowadays there are rumours of another coup being projeted in our country by the army, backed by the actual president Jair Bolsonaro. Will it happen? I doubt it, but you never know until its done. So its understandable why Vargas would act that way.
1:15 It's impressive how Brazil knew Germany attacking USSR and Japan attacking USA was a terrible idea, but the axis couldn't see that. *It was a terrible strategy from the start.*
Which just shows the political fanaticism of the Nazis in particular and the mystical fanaticism of the Japanese that they couldn't see things that were so clear to everyone else.
Germany really had no choice but to invade the Soviet Union. War between Fascism and Communism was inevitable and both sides saw this. The Soviets had not fully industrialized were developing their industry. They had just purged the overwhelming majority of their military officers. At the point that Hitler invaded the Soviet Union was as weak as it was ever going to ever going to be, at least in the next few decades. If Hitler had to fight the Soviets and to be clear he did have to fight them, then right then and there was the absolute best opportunity for victory he would ever have.
Japan kinda had no choice either. Yamamoto himself knew that they have a deadline of only a few years to defeat/demoralize the USA before they lose all their chance. The US oil embargo on Japan is the heaviest burden they've had and their conquest for China will not move forward if they don't have that oil. So they went on to invade the Dutch East Indies and get the oil there themselves; and their target is uncomfortably close to the Philippines, a US territory at the time. Invading the Dutch colonies without attacking the US would probably push the US to go to war anyway. They either had to attack an unprepared US, or don't attack and risk going to war with a well-prepared US later. It is clearly a bad idea, but it's the best bad idea they had.
Vargas was the only truly comitted pro allied dictator in south america, the US foreign office went nuts when he had a car crash in may 1st 1942 since he was the only dictator there who they knew it wouldn't try to join the axis Also a fun fact is that he had centralized power so much that the government was shut down until he recovered from a broken leg he got from the car crash, hue BR
I knew a veteran when I was young. After the war, he became a strong alcoholic, because the soldiers didn't have clothes for the harsh cold temperatures of Northern Italy, and of course, had no ideia of what really cold temperatures were like, so they drank a lot to have that warm feeling. Glad he overcame the alcoholism and became a pastor in the church I used to go when I was young. Died in 2010, may he rest in peace in heaven.
Vargas: “I’m going to be an intelligent leader and use the conditions of the war to improve both the wealth and prestige of my country.” Also Vargas, somehow: “Now I’m going to disband the army fighting for Brazil because people like them and they obviously won’t be upset.”
@@rodrigomingori8850 tu é brasileiro?vou escrever em pt mesmo, falsificar uma carta é fácil, ou podem ter forçado ele a escrever, tem varias possibilidades, eu morava em frente ao palacio do catete onde ele morreu, visitei varias vezes, o jeito de suicidio dele foi muito estranho, o governo e os militares queriam ele fora do poder, tudo é possível
And that’s why, in the UN Security Council video, Brazil was considered for a sixth seat. In modern times, in fact last week, multiple countries defended a reform of the UN Security Council that would be more representative of the world, adding countries like India and Brazil, since these two are disproportionately larger than their neighbors they rotate with in the regular seats and would arguably deserve permanent representation.
It was considered for a fifth member, get your facts straight. Also, countries want other countries to be on the security council because the US and Russia are the major powers there.
Nooooo.... You've gotta be a GOOD DICTATORSHIP to be on the UN security council. Like China and Russia. And Australia who is currently CATCHING UP on the dictatorship bit. Don't ask how I know....
I only ever knew of Brazil's involvement in WWII due to a film called The Lost Patrol, about soldiers from the Brazilian Expeditionary Force trying to regroup with US forces but end up discovering German plans on their way
"I am 1/2 Brazilian but I was born in the UK. My Brazilian grandfather also fought in Italy as a combat medic. Men like him still don't get the recognition they deserve by many within Brazil itself. " - Blanka from Street Fighter
The only thing I would point out is that Brasília hadn't been built yet as it was inaugurated only in 1960, so the newspaper would be more appropriately called "Rio Times" 😁
As a Japanese Brazilian, I would also like to say that Vargas was also responsible for prohibiting people that migrated from (or were descendants from) the axis countries from speaking their native (or parent's) country's language (which were Japanese, German and Italian), and it was briefly enforced even after the war, up to the 1950s, it's one of the reasons as to why many people that are of Italian, German or Japanese descent in Brazil speak basically nothing of the language that their grandparents spoke.
I live in the south and here a shitton of people in their 50-60's speak some form of German ir italian dialect, so i dont really know If what you say is true
Não precisa ser tão exagerado, pois aqui tem o Talian (uma variação vêneta falada no Rio Grande do Sul), Pomerano (totalmente extinto na Europa, só tem falantes somente no Brasil), e os Nipo-Brasileiros (que o Brasil abriga a maior população de origem japonesa fora do Japão) obviamente ainda tem um conhecimento da língua japonesa (tendo até bairros e cidades próprias pra essas comunidades).
@@leandromacedooliveira8912 Eu sou nipo Brasileiro, na cidade onde eu vivo, literalmente só eu sei falar japonês da minha geração, o resto dos nipo brasileiros que sabe um pouco tem mais de 50 anos kk
I was expecting a Sabaton reference somewhere. Theres a song called Smoking Snakes. It tells the tale about 3 members of the BEF, who fought to the death against the Nazis. The Germans quite surprisingly honoured the brave heroes and gave them military honours.
The germans though they were fighting an entire battalion, but when they reach there they realize it was only three men. One of the soldiers decorated them for their great achieve, even though he would be executed for betrayal of the homeland.
Germany: hey want to hear a joke? Brazil: sim, why not Germany: Gothic line Brazil: oh i get it Germany: what?! Brazil: **loads Springfield M1903 with malicious intent**
Brasilian army actualy used mausers models 98 and some new kar 98k before the war even madsens this one goed all way to 21 century in hands of the police but in late 30s brasil have kind of civil war so many army units are kinda have experince on battle constitunial war armored trains and all navy blockades and some bit of air bombing campain brasilian army have by the time some kwonloge of fight against defensive posture because of this civil war
@@portrasdamascara8750 that's correct but as far i know the BEF during their time in italy used mainly american weapons mainly the M1903A1 springfield and other weapons like M1 carbines, thompsons smgs and the M1 garand in small numbers and some of which were captured by the brazilians in dead american soldiers
Hans is right about the equipment. The BEF adopted american equipment in Italy, especially the uniforms, for some reasons: the inadequacy of their own uniforms to italian winter climate and the problems concerning friendly fire. Also, their original equipment (weaponry) was obsolete in the 1940's when compared to american, german, japanese, british and soviet ones.
@@pauloeduardodiasdasilva6721 well who was going to help Argentina? Colombia? They were lucky the UK didn’t outright declared war with its allies against Argentina and invaded their mainland
Except Argentina didn't declare war and operated under the false idea there wouldn't be a fight. Hence fighting with minimal force without proper equipment, with fresh recruits without logistics and improvising on the run while the junta kept sabotaging them and ordering to just hold that the US would make them negotiate. 99% of the military force was not used during the conflict, save for the Air Force.
@@Argentvs it was an invasion, whether you use the unfortunately inexperienced and poorly trained conscripts or your actual armed forces. The UK played with the idea of declaring war, but it is fair game if it is self defence so they didn’t have to declare it.
He wasn't ousted. He could have stayed in power for a decade if he really wanted to because he still had massive popular support. He stepped down as dictator voluntarily to avoid increasing tensions. He even helped to draft the democratic constitution and passed the government to the new elected president, Eurico Gaspar Dutra, personally.
Yes we did. And we got it. But hey at least mi mexico was allways criticizing the nazies X,D poor austrians and poles. But yeah feels good to win a war by joining late. We learned that from the USA :p
Vargas was so chad that when he abdicate from dictatorship he said in a interview that he would vote for Dutra, who was is adversary and the general who threatened depose him, thanks to the massive Vargas's popularity Dutra won, but this made Dutra powerless because he hadn't the anti vargas's suport (even initially being opposition), and his own suport base was controlled by Getúlio, so Vargas garanted that his opposition stayed divided so he could run and win the 1950 elections
@@shinigummyl1586 there's a reason why, even though the guy was a cruel bastard, he is still ALOT of brazillian's favorite president/political figure...
@@MaxHohenstaufen "it would be easier for a snake to smoke a pipe than Brazil to join the war". The saying was famous in Brazil and you can find an iconic photo of soldier Francisco de Paula loading a flak round with the inscription "the snake is smoking" written in portuguese on it. It's analogous to "when pigs fly" in english. To this day, the brazilian expeditionary force sleeve insignia displays a snake smoking a pipe.
Fantastic video!! My grandfather was part of the BEF, he lost one leg and his friend in battle. He never talked much about the war, only showing his medal, pictures and the uniform. I'm so proud of him!
I never knew about Brazils involvement in ww2 until a few years ago when I was playing ruse on the 360. I got talking to a Brazilian dude called Oleg and he was a teacher. He taught me this in broken english. Miss the 360 days bumped into so many cool characters
I feel Brazil and Mexico are the only countries that are somewhat involved in global affairs. Mexico sent a part of their air force to fight in the Pacific theatre while Brazil sent a expeditionary force to the Italian campaign. 🇲🇽❤️🇧🇷
I knew nothing about Brazil's involvement until recently. For their relatively small numbers, they actually performed quite well and exceded their initially rather limited mission.
*Vargas* : "The British are blockading Germany? Maybe I'll join the Axis." *Looks northwest and see that the United States would probably get to Brazil before Germany and Italy could send any kind of help* "Well, let's not be hasty, here."
My boyfriend is Brazilian and loves learning about ww2, but as a American i was always confused why brazil even did anything in the war, thanks for teaching me something new and creating a video i know my boyfriend will love
Disney played a role in the good neighbor act showing the beauty and modern sights of South American countries we wanted to be on better terms with and alley themselves with us. This also opened up these countries to those who didn't think much of places like Brazil, Peru, Argentina, etc as Europe was who we believed were our equals.
Interesting fact: Brazil following the US and Canada after declaring war against the axis also treated japanese Brazilians along with italian and german ones bad too, however, they were not put into internment camps just had their rights infringed.
@@berniekatzroy Interesting fact(2): because of the pursuit of italian and german descendents, in a point that stores got stoned just because of the family name, the soccer team Itália changed the name for Palmeiras.
Curiosity about the Brazilian Expeditionary Force: until 1940 the general Mascarenhas de Morais wanted to integrate at least 100 thousand soldiers in case of fighting along side the Allies in Europe, but fun fact: Getúlio didn't wanted that to happen because he still wanted to be friendly with Germany and Italy
@@raptorfromthe6ix833 Yes and no, he did give lots of workers rights, while being "fascist", but he was going to be ousted again, but killed himself before, becoming a hero
@@raptorfromthe6ix833 He was popular and played his popularity as "father of the poor" for establishing workers' rights and opposing local elites. Since most of his opponents came from these elites, he survived politically. He's still remembered fondly by nationalists, mostly on the left.
Great that you made a video about the FEB (Força Expedicionária Brasileira). And it's so nice to see your dedication to details beyond history itself, such as the characterization of Mascanheiras de Morais, FEB's commander, who had grey hair. :)
@@jgr7487 No it did not. While it was an important part in their sector and their help cannot be understated, to say their involvement had a bigger impact on the Italian campaign itself is a falt out lie. It numbered 25 000 soldiers. The Allies had a total of 1.5 million men deployed to italy in April 1945
@@jgr7487 25,000 Brazillian Soldiers did not secure Italy for the allies. They did a cracking job but were a very small part of operations with over 2 million troops.
@@joshs3066 Nah mate u wong, actualy Brazil has literally won the entire war in the western front and single handed fought the axis You should stop listen to the liberal media and go study moar, lolz
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I got to say in comparison he was alot smarter then the military leadership and the dictators of Japan and Germany ever was from a long term strategic perspective and viewing it from a outside perspective. And the National Socialist government of Germany was foolish enough to start attacking their shipping over it thus making another unnecessary enemy.
@@warcrimeconnoisseur5238 I know that. After watching TIK's videos about Germany from my point of view their worse strategic decision was declaring war on America. The decision to attack the Soviet Union was motivated by the need of resources such as oil like a hungry beast that needs food to feed upon. But declaring war on America which held no advantage was the death sentence that sealed their fate. Should of abandon the alliance with the Japanese then.
@@thorshammer7883 They declared war upon the Soviets because of their ideology, remember the slavs are not germanic and with that dont deserve their lands and they needed slaves for their slave economy, if they really wanted to dominate Europe they should've stayed allied to the Soviets because alot of Russians, Ukrainians etc. really hated the Soviets and only started to like them after Germany wanted the war annahilation
@@warcrimeconnoisseur5238 Is that suppose to be a disagreement or something? There was multiple reasons why Germany declared war on the Soviet Union that which you mentioned included but also because of resources which their military desperately needed. Going by TIK's videos they were experiencing a large oil shortage where they couldn't fuel their vehicles for very long. So the need of resources was also a factor as to why they did it. Also because Hitler's desire to conquer the lands in the area and colonize them in his warped head.
@@thorshammer7883 Yes he needed oil but he could've just traded with their, at the time, allies for it because the only enemy was the UK, so either H and his whole staff were dumber than a little child or his reason was mainly ideological
@@luket.9113 depend who you ask Have some people that like him, because he made the economy better and because he created labour rights And have other people that say he was a dictator
I have an idea for a video, "How humiliating was The Century of Humiliation?" I wanna know how different the downfall of Qing and Warlord Era were compared to other dynasties' downfall. Is it actually so different that it warrants the title of complete humiliation or is it the classic Mandate of Heaven under different masks?
Given what I've seen, I think the only thing that made a difference was the length of time The fall of the Ming dynasty to the Qing was much bloodier and was even a native Chinese regime being ousted by a foreign one rather than a foreign one being fucked over by other foreign ones followed by a native popular uprising. The Manchurian conquest of China (And also the Mongol conquests of China) were much quicker than the decades of deliberate fucking over that the west collectively did.
I think it's quite simple. The fall of dynasties before were either an internal affair of a new heroic people taking over the now corrupt Royalty that had loss their heavenly mandate, a reunification of a broken China from a previous weak dynasty or an external force conquering and quickly turning chinese themselves. The century of Humiliation saw external powers bossing China around just to take advantage of it, rather than conquer it for themselves as it was the custom + A gigantic loss of China's historical sphere of influence in places like Mongolia, Indochina, Korea and Japan to those same foreign powers
The fact that we call it the Warlord Era says a lot in of itself. It took China a long time to reunite after the Qing dynasty fell, between attempts at new governments and a lack of power and legitimacy in the remnant of the dynasty. Even though the Nationalists did the Northern Expedition and gained some authority by retaking Bejing...they still had their capital at Nanjing. Culturally there was an attempt to disconnect from the old Imperial culture and system, to westernize and modernize (somewhat). It's a dense read but I recommend looking at The Search for Modern China by Johnathan D. Spense. It goes into a lot of detail on that particular era, as well as the leadup to it during the Qing.
When an Austrian man took over Germany invades poland so you as an Italian have to fight the Brazilians who have invaded your country along with America and Britain.
Worse if you're an Italian immigrant to Brazil, so a) you got back to Italy and now have to fight your old neighbours, or b) you got conscripted and the same thing's happening
Japan: “The allies sent us a letter.” Germany: “What does it say?” Japan: “It says we’re going to Brazil.“ Germany: (calmly walks outside and accepts defeat)
Brazil's involvement made no difference in the outcome at all. They joined bc they wanted a seat at the victors table. Germany was no threat to them and had no interest in Brazil.
As a Brazilian I can say history doesn't get the recognition it should get by the people. Not many know where Brazil even fought in WW2 in the first place. It should be noted that the brazilian force was extremely unprepared and if we didn't get trained by the Americans, it would have gone pretty badly. Kudos to all the men who took this fight to Europe
Brazil's history is so interesting. It has been on the cusp of becoming a major international player almost two hundred years, but has managed to avoid getting dragged into siding with any one side in particular and instead has chosen to develop itself while being the dominant player of South America both locally and on the global stage. It is actually very similar to what the US could have been had they never got involved in WWI and maintained their isolationist stance toward European/global politics.
Indeed very interesting, but I don't read it the same way. Trying to complement your thoughts: Brazil was created as and kept being an agrarian powerhouse based on slavery. While being "richer" than the US for most of the first colonial centuries, it never made the leap of industrialization that happened in northeastern US in the early XIX, and it never quite had an expressive middle class. Later it became a pawn in the global stage while remaining a regional leader. Maybe it's similar to what he US could've been if the CSA won?
@@Joao-de9gl more like if the US kept slavery and the American Civil War never happened - slavery would eventually die out or be reformed into something else and the internal division would keep America busy with internal affairs. Thus, they would remain isolationist and eventually perhaps ended up like Brazil
I can agree with you right up until the Cold War. Then we defaulted into a banana republic. Sure, bigger and more complex than the Caribbean variety, but still a military junta-run puppet state for the US, from 1964 right until 1985. And our current guy has a pretty bad case of nostalgia for those times. He was even caught saluting the American flag.
I'm Brazilian and what can i say this is very, very accurate to our history, and is a proud to us had fight against the nazi. Our soldiers from FEB and our aviators from FAB never been forgotten. As we can say while the war was happening, "The Snake smoked". Good job as always and thank you to tell a bit more of our history.
What do you mean? Of course they've been forgotten, children in school aren't teached about what Brazil did in ww2 and most Brazilians don't even know we sent troops
Well, this video has the merit of avoiding the pro fascist Vargas stereotype and carefully showing how the pro axis hints were made to gather even more support from the allies, thus following the more well accepted historiography instead of delving into internet myths, thank you That being said the most important brazilian trade partner was the USA, Germany never came close to threaten the position of the US as the main brazilian trade partner as Vargas was an personal friend of FDR Overral a nice video Edit In fact I would say that this is the best video about brazilian participation in WWII made by a large youtube channel yet
The only reason why half if not more of Latin America didn't join the Axis was because the US held so much power over these regimes that they never dared. Their ideological sympathies were largely on the Axis side, especially in Argentina, but also in Brazil.
@@yarpen26 The brazilian army and government was americanophile, they never considered joining the axis, this is a myth supported by the current brazilian far right They considered either neutrality or joining the allies, but since the USA offered so much money that it greatly overcame any profit neutrality could bring, we were bought into the allies In the book "Documentos históricos do Estado-Maior do Exército". Esteves Diniz analyses all the brazilian army internal reports from before and during the war and none consider joining the axis
@@freiervogel3440 America is not a country, its just used as the short for united states of america sometimes. And Brazil IS Latin American, what the hell do you mean language has nothing to do with this? Portuguese is descended from Latin.
Thats dictatorships for you Heros are wonderful during wartime, but the peace that comes after, they become a risk Just look at the USSR, or 90% of Imperial Roman history
@@idaboi8378 the only closest example of that clownery for the USSR was with Stalin and the idea of autonomy enterprise in industrialization, and I doubt you even know "90%" of Roman history so stop excusing clownery for whatever "reason", it's distinguishable becuz it's Brazil, final.
@@greyscaleb1537 ill assume tankie Given you seemed to of forgotten 1 piece of history everyone knows Le big purge, where everyone who was seen as a threat to power was... removed Like, Hero of the Revolution, Leon Trotsky Then ofc you have the demotion of Zhukov after he gets Khrushchev into power Why you try and claim the USSR didn't do this is beyond me and the "90% of Imperial Roman history" was a joke, we all know it was 100%
@@anguswaterhouse9255 he was known as a man who masters the 2 sides of the coin. Being good with the rich and father of the poors. He was elected years later and to avoid a military coup for some more years, he comite suicide uniting the country. Sadly this only lasted for some years and a military dictatorship was installed in 1964. There are some nuances in this, but its to complicated to point that out. Yes Carlos Lacerda, i'm talking to you.
Replace "não, você é" with "não, você está." In portuguese the verb ser is the verb to be when referring to a permanent attribute, and estar for changing/conditional attributes. I'm not sure if i explained it well. It's just like spanish.
Here is a story : During the war in the city of Rio, a little girl is in her house and notices the lights are off. And it is not just her house but others houses as well. She is a little confused why they are doing this. What is it? What is going on? Did something happen? Why did we turn off the lights? Eventually these stopped but it was a very fascinating event that happened. That little girl is my Grandma (mom’s side) and she is still doing great today! Love you grandma! 🇺🇸🇧🇷
@@napolien1310 Nothing happened. I was going to say "submarines" but recall my grandparents in São Paulo also had to do it, so it has to be them being afraid of bombers.
From a Brazilian, here's a few things about Vargas he couldn't say in a three minutes video. He is a very important, almost mythological figure of our national history, one that can't be ignored, even in the slightest. His actions changed the economical and social landscape of the entire country, from North to South, in good and bad ways. At first, in 1930, he was a normal president, with limitations to his powers and all that boring stuff. From 1937 to 1945, after a self-coup, he had basically unlimited powers, this period is called Estado Novo. He industrialized the country, created/compiled the first (decent) work laws of the country, invested on infrastructure in the Amazonian region, started efforts to settle the sparsely populated Center-Western region with mild successes and generally improved the country's economical situation. Almost every major government-owned company today was created under his government. Although, as any dictator he brutally repressed opposition, banned all parties and had no scruples when it came to exiling, torturing or killing political opponents. But most importantly for me, as a southerner: during WW2 banned languages spoken by the Axis countries. Our country is home to many immigrants and their descendants, some of which never learned portuguese, especially in the South. His government did very bad things to anyone who refused (or was unable) to speak portuguese. For this, some here absolutely hate him and see him as nothing more than a tyrant. Many people who only spoke german or italian never spoke it again, even after the repression ended and this unfortuantely led to much of our identity being lost. in 1945, he was deposed and had his political rights restricted for some years. Then the madlad got elected. This time he had little power and after some events, commited suicide. Crowds attended to his funeral and the nation was in a general state of grief. He is loved and hated, seen as the Father of the Poor by some and as a fascist tyrant by others. Quite possibly the most controversial figure of our history and there's yet to be born anyone that will have such an impact on the country. Also, please feel free to add anything or to correct me, as we are here to learn, not to impose ourselves.
So essentially hes the Brazilian version of how many famous American figures nowadays are somewhat controversial, like the founding fathers being good for forming the USA, but controversial cause many of them were slave owners.
@@nejiiuyn well I was going to write a lot to differentiate him from the American founding fathers, but the guy above said it better. Vargas is Woodrow Wilson. Fuck them both.
The cultural impact of his government almost killed off both the national cultures and those of the immigrants. Paradoxically, his attempt at cultural homogeneity destroyed Brazilian culture, and paved the way to the soulless monstrosity that BR pop culture has become now
@@bebedor_de_cafe3272 BJJ is one of the most effective fighting disciplines in the world. You can’t compete as a professional fighter without some kind of base in it.
My grandfather, who join BEF and fought the nazis in Italy, used to tell me that Axis soldiers would usually surrender to brazillians. He said that the germans and italians used to do that cause brazillian soldiers would treat then well and party with the surrenders and that the americans usually would torture or kill the germans/italians.
soviets aswell, but those who surrendered would mostly go to camps in siberia for years before leaving, german soldiers were terrified of the soviet gulags.
Love to see this topic get some love! Did my senior thesis on the pracinhas and how they, having been trained and equipped by the Americans, became so effective as a fighting force (even learning to travel and fight on skis) that they were virtually interchangeable with American GI's amongst the American V (5th) Army. I titled my thesis "The 'Other' Americans" though I really should have gone with "The Brazilian Badasses!" haha "O Cobra Que Fumou!!"
I never get tired of the "jumping across the field of flowers" part.
And everything was going well.... and fun facts.
@@the0ne809 No
It's called frolicking!
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Same. It's just... Appropriate for world history.
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Fun fact: despite being a dictator for about 15 years in Brazil, after Vargas was ousted from the government he winned an election to senator, and then president in 1951. It's like Napoleon coming from Elba; our Waterloo was his suicide in 1954.
Why did he kill himself?
@@jufref There was a journalist named Carlos Lacerda, who was a fervent opponent of Vargas (more like a politician, then), and after Vargas, he was expected to win the presidential race. However, a guy in Vargas's guard chimped out and independently shot Lacerda. He survived, and launched a campaign against Vargas (a conspiracy, more of a kind) and rumours of coups started taking place. So, alone in the Catete Palace, he shot himself, showing to the whole country the real nature of Lacerda, basically ruining his chance of grasping the power he so grossly aspired in the subsequent election.
@@vitorluigi2911 Thanks sir for the info.
The past tense of "win" is "won."
@@vitorluigi2911 basically by Vargas killing himself, he brought Lacerda down with him
Just a minor mistake: Brasilia didn't exist during Vargas' lifetime. It was inaugurated in April 21st 1960. Back then the capital of Brazil was Rio. Aside from that, great video!
I was thinking exactly the same, but yeh I'm gonna let this slide just for now as it's a little pedantic and not very important in the overall video and its subject matter.
I think this is the only instance where a foreigner mistakes Brazil's capital for Brasilia. Usually, they assume it's still Rio de Janeiro! 😃
(In their defense, though, Rio was Brazil's capital for almost 200 years.)
how ironic, someone gets the capital of brazil mixed up between Brasilia and rio... in the other direction
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@@aratirao9007 ok Aditya Rathore, we will check your videos. But you don't have to dress up as a chick for that.
In Brazil, we learn that Vargas was a pragmatist leader. He waited till the last second to join the war, as he wanted to be on the winners side. That said, as an authoritarian dictator allying with democracies to fight dictatorships , he knew that eventually his power would come to an end, and just accepted it.
Edit: When I said that he "accepted it", I was only referring to his authoritarian rule. 5 years after being deposed as a dictator, he was democratically elected president, and upon realizing he would be deposed again due to yet another political crisis, he committed suicide.
he actually got elected president some time after the war ( i am brazillian i know what i am talking about )
The ultimate fight
Brazil vs Brazil
*Who will win?*
What a legend
@@ethanwmonster9075 Argentina
@@janaejoaodosacramento9731 ... and killed himself before being deposed again, lol
Vargas 1944: "Holy shit, my forces can actually fight! Better disband the whole thing quickly..."
South America history in a nut shell
Reportedly, he was tipped that they would try a coup.
Brazil is famous for coup d'etats backed by the army. Monarchy was abolished in a coup, Vargas get to power in a coup, Vargas was almost taken from power by a coup and ten years later we got a coup (1964) which lasted more than 20 years. Even the "legal" impeachment of our former president Dilma Roussef was backed by the military (some generals spoke about getting her out of power before 2014, and that if the congress didn't act, they would do) Nowadays there are rumours of another coup being projeted in our country by the army, backed by the actual president Jair Bolsonaro. Will it happen? I doubt it, but you never know until its done. So its understandable why Vargas would act that way.
@@Gustavogukpa And they did
@@matheus73210 now we have Lula and hopefully we may have abou more 10 years of no coup, to build the country again
No-one came to Brazil so Brazil decided to invade everywhere else.
*NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!*
if you do not come to Brazil, Brazil will come to you
Yes, e vamos fazer de novo gringo safado
@@andknuckles101 ordem, progresso, futebol e feijoada
Isn't this the plot of that one COD game?
1:15 It's impressive how Brazil knew Germany attacking USSR and Japan attacking USA was a terrible idea, but the axis couldn't see that.
*It was a terrible strategy from the start.*
Which just shows the political fanaticism of the Nazis in particular and the mystical fanaticism of the Japanese that they couldn't see things that were so clear to everyone else.
when dictators start believing their own propaganda...
Germany really had no choice but to invade the Soviet Union. War between Fascism and Communism was inevitable and both sides saw this. The Soviets had not fully industrialized were developing their industry. They had just purged the overwhelming majority of their military officers. At the point that Hitler invaded the Soviet Union was as weak as it was ever going to ever going to be, at least in the next few decades. If Hitler had to fight the Soviets and to be clear he did have to fight them, then right then and there was the absolute best opportunity for victory he would ever have.
Japan kinda had no choice either. Yamamoto himself knew that they have a deadline of only a few years to defeat/demoralize the USA before they lose all their chance.
The US oil embargo on Japan is the heaviest burden they've had and their conquest for China will not move forward if they don't have that oil.
So they went on to invade the Dutch East Indies and get the oil there themselves; and their target is uncomfortably close to the Philippines, a US territory at the time.
Invading the Dutch colonies without attacking the US would probably push the US to go to war anyway. They either had to attack an unprepared US, or don't attack and risk going to war with a well-prepared US later.
It is clearly a bad idea, but it's the best bad idea they had.
The Sovjetununion was atacking themselfes and USA was inoficially in the war since the start
Allies: So why did you join us against Hitler?
Brazil: Money!
wow like other countries like US
noop
Entramos por causa do ataque nazista mesmo 😎👍🇧🇷
and revenge
Tbh the US also joined for Money...
Dictator: I’ll join the axis
James bisonette, the main financial backer of the allies: I think I could persuade you
Vargas was the only truly comitted pro allied dictator in south america, the US foreign office went nuts when he had a car crash in may 1st 1942 since he was the only dictator there who they knew it wouldn't try to join the axis
Also a fun fact is that he had centralized power so much that the government was shut down until he recovered from a broken leg he got from the car crash, hue BR
James bisonette is also first patreon on the list
Roosevelt: I think Brazil will join the axis...
James bisonette: Hold my Beer
Brazil: alrighty then, I'm joining the allies! Woot!!
LOLL
The axis didn’t visit Brazil, so Brazil visited them
What did we learn today kids? EVERYONE goes to Brazil
If you don’t go to Brazil, Brazil goes to you
i am brazilian and i am here to say IF YOU DONT COME HERE WE WILL COME TO YOU
Or Argentina 😉
@@janaejoaodosacramento9731 bring the weather food and women! Welcome anytime!
I am Brazillian, and this is true. We already invade 107 contries, we are so good at it that nobody notices
I knew a veteran when I was young. After the war, he became a strong alcoholic, because the soldiers didn't have clothes for the harsh cold temperatures of Northern Italy, and of course, had no ideia of what really cold temperatures were like, so they drank a lot to have that warm feeling. Glad he overcame the alcoholism and became a pastor in the church I used to go when I was young. Died in 2010, may he rest in peace in heaven.
You mean in the Alps ?
Qual era o nome e era de onde?
When Brazil joined the war FDR called him "Dictator in defense of democracy"
The same could be said about Stalin
@@karnickel-s33d16 Almost, since Stalin who created Hitler and used him as a spear tip.
The good neighbor policy ...
@@FullAdDariusBR Pretty sure Alois Schicklgruber created him
@@elseggs6504 I mean he taught him how to do things, Stalin even armed Hitler.
Vargas: “I’m going to be an intelligent leader and use the conditions of the war to improve both the wealth and prestige of my country.”
Also Vargas, somehow: “Now I’m going to disband the army fighting for Brazil because people like them and they obviously won’t be upset.”
So in turn they disbanded him lol
@@gustavoritter7321 And he fucking came back in 1950. Like, the man literally got re-elected by almost everyone as he said he would.
@@shikikankillzone4239 And then he killed himself...
@@gustavoritter7321 some say he was killed, no one suicides shooting themselves in the chest
@@rodrigomingori8850 tu é brasileiro?vou escrever em pt mesmo, falsificar uma carta é fácil, ou podem ter forçado ele a escrever, tem varias possibilidades, eu morava em frente ao palacio do catete onde ele morreu, visitei varias vezes, o jeito de suicidio dele foi muito estranho, o governo e os militares queriam ele fora do poder, tudo é possível
So glad someone is finally talking about the epic Brazilian troops. They don’t get enough recognition
sabaton - smoking snakes
And that’s why, in the UN Security Council video, Brazil was considered for a sixth seat. In modern times, in fact last week, multiple countries defended a reform of the UN Security Council that would be more representative of the world, adding countries like India and Brazil, since these two are disproportionately larger than their neighbors they rotate with in the regular seats and would arguably deserve permanent representation.
It wasn’t, it was considered for the fifth member, but the soviets didn’t like the idea and brasil wasn’t that much interested
It was considered for a fifth member, get your facts straight. Also, countries want other countries to be on the security council because the US and Russia are the major powers there.
Brazil was destined to be the fifth member, not sixth.
Nooooo.... You've gotta be a GOOD DICTATORSHIP to be on the UN security council. Like China and Russia. And Australia who is currently CATCHING UP on the dictatorship bit. Don't ask how I know....
@@OffGridInvestor and the U.S too! No evil dictatorships In the U.N security council 😡😡😡😡😡
I only ever knew of Brazil's involvement in WWII due to a film called The Lost Patrol, about soldiers from the Brazilian Expeditionary Force trying to regroup with US forces but end up discovering German plans on their way
Can you give a source to that movie? I have only found an 1934 movie about british troops
@@JoaoPedro-ec9hm I'm afraid not, I only got it on DVD and couldn't find it online
@@JoaoPedro-ec9hm Brazilian movie named “A estrada 47” marketed both as “The Lost Patrol” and “Road 47” overseas
@bronsonlee777 very underrated
And also, we can't forget that movie with Pelé, Escape to Victory, where the Nazi host a football match with allied prisoners :P
Vargas did what Mussolini should have. He waited untill the last second to pick a side
"I am 1/2 Brazilian but I was born in the UK. My Brazilian grandfather also fought in Italy as a combat medic. Men like him still don't get the recognition they deserve by many within Brazil itself.
" - Blanka from Street Fighter
"A cobra está fumando..."
@@chainehistoire7616 lmao, why is the translation saying "a cobra is smoking"
@@ishaansharma4325 Bruhzil humor
kkkkk
lol I didn't see that coming
@@chainehistoire7616 brasileiro também ?
The only thing I would point out is that Brasília hadn't been built yet as it was inaugurated only in 1960, so the newspaper would be more appropriately called "Rio Times" 😁
I was about to comment that
Too slow here, thanks!
Glad it's not only us wolves who can sniff out such (deliberate?) errors? ; )
Yep
Did they built a whole city from scratch and named it their capital? thats crazy
@@adrianoropeza8558 Yes. In less than 5 years
He said "Brazil" on the internet. Brace for impact, we are coming.
Hue hue br
Brasil
Huehuehue here we are
We remember, no surrender, heroes of our century...
As a Japanese Brazilian, I would also like to say that Vargas was also responsible for prohibiting people that migrated from (or were descendants from) the axis countries from speaking their native (or parent's) country's language (which were Japanese, German and Italian), and it was briefly enforced even after the war, up to the 1950s, it's one of the reasons as to why many people that are of Italian, German or Japanese descent in Brazil speak basically nothing of the language that their grandparents spoke.
I live in the south and here a shitton of people in their 50-60's speak some form of German ir italian dialect, so i dont really know If what you say is true
@@GabrielSoares-ju9yq Pesquise sobre a campanha de nacionalização da era Vargas
Não precisa ser tão exagerado, pois aqui tem o Talian (uma variação vêneta falada no Rio Grande do Sul), Pomerano (totalmente extinto na Europa, só tem falantes somente no Brasil), e os Nipo-Brasileiros (que o Brasil abriga a maior população de origem japonesa fora do Japão) obviamente ainda tem um conhecimento da língua japonesa (tendo até bairros e cidades próprias pra essas comunidades).
@@GabrielSoares-ju9yq Também está disponível no site da câmara dos deputados: Decreto lei número 383, de 18 de abril de 1938
@@leandromacedooliveira8912 Eu sou nipo Brasileiro, na cidade onde eu vivo, literalmente só eu sei falar japonês da minha geração, o resto dos nipo brasileiros que sabe um pouco tem mais de 50 anos kk
Petition: how was life in Central Asia during the Soviet Union?
Great video!
Answer: it probably could've been worse, but I'm not sure how
Signed
I know that the Mongolians still had their herds, but know they got food and veterinarians from the government which helped them.
Knowing the Soviet Union. I would guess... probably miserable.
Siberiade?
I was expecting a Sabaton reference somewhere. Theres a song called Smoking Snakes. It tells the tale about 3 members of the BEF, who fought to the death against the Nazis. The Germans quite surprisingly honoured the brave heroes and gave them military honours.
The germans though they were fighting an entire battalion, but when they reach there they realize it was only three men. One of the soldiers decorated them for their great achieve, even though he would be executed for betrayal of the homeland.
Adonito Hirohitolini doesn’t exist he can’t hurt you
0:55
Adogetunitolio Hirovahitorgaslini.
I love how whenever Brazil is shown, there's a portrait of Pedro II in the background.
*Civ 5 Pedro war theme plays*
Prince Pedro Carlos is sitting in Petropolis watching thinking...'That could have been my picture...'
I think that's Deodoro.
Unironically the last competent leader we had
Based, Pedro was probably the most competent leader we ever had
Germany: hey want to hear a joke?
Brazil: sim, why not
Germany: Gothic line
Brazil: oh i get it
Germany: what?!
Brazil: **loads Springfield M1903 with malicious intent**
Brasilian army actualy used mausers models 98 and some new kar 98k before the war even madsens this one goed all way to 21 century in hands of the police but in late 30s brasil have kind of civil war so many army units are kinda have experince on battle constitunial war armored trains and all navy blockades and some bit of air bombing campain brasilian army have by the time some kwonloge of fight against defensive posture because of this civil war
@@portrasdamascara8750 that's correct but as far i know the BEF during their time in italy used mainly american weapons mainly the M1903A1 springfield and other weapons like M1 carbines, thompsons smgs and the M1 garand in small numbers and some of which were captured by the brazilians in dead american soldiers
**Expeditionary song starts to play**
Hans is right about the equipment. The BEF adopted american equipment in Italy, especially the uniforms, for some reasons: the inadequacy of their own uniforms to italian winter climate and the problems concerning friendly fire. Also, their original equipment (weaponry) was obsolete in the 1940's when compared to american, german, japanese, british and soviet ones.
Brazil: declares war on a European country to unite the people behind their authoritarian government
Argentina 1982: 👀👀👀
two more eyes and argentina becomes spider.
Brazil used its teammates to win, while Argentina tried to clutch.
@@pauloeduardodiasdasilva6721 well who was going to help Argentina? Colombia? They were lucky the UK didn’t outright declared war with its allies against Argentina and invaded their mainland
Except Argentina didn't declare war and operated under the false idea there wouldn't be a fight. Hence fighting with minimal force without proper equipment, with fresh recruits without logistics and improvising on the run while the junta kept sabotaging them and ordering to just hold that the US would make them negotiate. 99% of the military force was not used during the conflict, save for the Air Force.
@@Argentvs it was an invasion, whether you use the unfortunately inexperienced and poorly trained conscripts or your actual armed forces. The UK played with the idea of declaring war, but it is fair game if it is self defence so they didn’t have to declare it.
Vargas to military: Go topple a totalitarian regime!
*Vargas ousted*
Vargas: *Surprised Pikachu face*
Then democratically elected five years later.
🟩 SERCH ADITYA RATHORE-HE ALSO MAKES INFORMATIVE CONTENT LIKE HISTORY MATTERS
He wasn't ousted. He could have stayed in power for a decade if he really wanted to because he still had massive popular support. He stepped down as dictator voluntarily to avoid increasing tensions. He even helped to draft the democratic constitution and passed the government to the new elected president, Eurico Gaspar Dutra, personally.
He wasn't really totalitarian though, more like an authoritarian leader like Orban of Hungary nowadays.
@@caracaes Such a good fascist he was
My favourite newspaper of Brazil: The times of a city that wasnt even on paper.
Fun fact, Getúlio Vargas was so popular that a few years later after he left his position as a dictator, he was elected again in power as president
The Latin American countries that joined late wanted a participation award, and Brazil was blackmailing James Bisonette.
YOU. YOU ARE TRASH-TALKING IN EVERY TOMMYKAY COMMENT SECTION.
I like it.
You are now known for your heroism in tommykay shorts's channel and not the other conquering stuff and ruling France. Good for you.
Yes we did. And we got it.
But hey at least mi mexico was allways criticizing the nazies X,D poor austrians and poles.
But yeah feels good to win a war by joining late. We learned that from the USA :p
As a Chilean myself, i gotta agree, literally declared war on Japan to join the UN when it was created
If they were blackmailing James Bisonette, do i really want to know what they did to Woogly-boogly and Spinning three plates?
Vargas was so chad that when he abdicate from dictatorship he said in a interview that he would vote for Dutra, who was is adversary and the general who threatened depose him, thanks to the massive Vargas's popularity Dutra won, but this made Dutra powerless because he hadn't the anti vargas's suport (even initially being opposition), and his own suport base was controlled by Getúlio, so Vargas garanted that his opposition stayed divided so he could run and win the 1950 elections
Clever catch-22
Cool
That is actually so smart wow.
@@shinigummyl1586 there's a reason why, even though the guy was a cruel bastard, he is still ALOT of brazillian's favorite president/political figure...
The Free World: "Mustache Man bad, how will you help us?"
Brazil: "Smoking Snakes!"
Sabato has a song about the Smoking Snakes.
(It is said that) Hitler once said snakes would smoke before Brazil would fight in the war. You probably heard the story.
@@MaxHohenstaufen "it would be easier for a snake to smoke a pipe than Brazil to join the war". The saying was famous in Brazil and you can find an iconic photo of soldier Francisco de Paula loading a flak round with the inscription "the snake is smoking" written in portuguese on it. It's analogous to "when pigs fly" in english. To this day, the brazilian expeditionary force sleeve insignia displays a snake smoking a pipe.
A Cobra Fumou!!!!!!!!!!
@Kelvin well the losers certainly weren't either.
Fantastic video!! My grandfather was part of the BEF, he lost one leg and his friend in battle. He never talked much about the war, only showing his medal, pictures and the uniform. I'm so proud of him!
Vargas after convincing the allied powers to bribe him so he wouldn't join the axis:
"It's like printing my own money!"
I never knew about Brazils involvement in ww2 until a few years ago when I was playing ruse on the 360. I got talking to a Brazilian dude called Oleg and he was a teacher. He taught me this in broken english. Miss the 360 days bumped into so many cool characters
I feel Brazil and Mexico are the only countries that are somewhat involved in global affairs. Mexico sent a part of their air force to fight in the Pacific theatre while Brazil sent a expeditionary force to the Italian campaign. 🇲🇽❤️🇧🇷
México e Brasil são irmãos de pais diferentes.
🇧🇷🤝 🇲🇽 sou do Brasil, e adoro o mexico ♥
Devia haver mais intercâmbio entre Brasil e México
É estranha parar pra pensar que meu avô levou um cossa dos brasileiros e dps veio morar no Brasil lol
COLOMBIA in the korean war
Vargas's entire character in this is "I want to grow Brazil's power. No, not that way. Oh god, it's out of my control!"
I knew nothing about Brazil's involvement until recently. For their relatively small numbers, they actually performed quite well and exceded their initially rather limited mission.
they took a crucial role during the battle of monte castelo
"In 1941 Germany did a thing and Japan did a thing too" jesus christ I love this channel
Yup, that was great.
⬜ SERCH ADITYA RATHORE-HE ALSO MAKES INFORMATIVE CONTENT LIKE HISTORY MATTERS
The dry commentary is the best part.
I love how you can be so simple yet so accurate about anything.
Vargas: I don’t think we’ll go to war
Brazil: We double dare you
Brazil: WE TRIPPLE DOG DARE YOU!
Brazil: we quadrouble dog dare you
Brazil we quintuple dog dare you!!!!!
*Vargas* : "The British are blockading Germany? Maybe I'll join the Axis."
*Looks northwest and see that the United States would probably get to Brazil before Germany and Italy could send any kind of help*
"Well, let's not be hasty, here."
It's an honor to see my country featured in this wonderful channel, thanks!
I am so glad someone is finally covering this
Why did Brazil Join WW2?
Brazil: "We joined for the money."
We learned it from the U.S in the last World War
@@matheuspinho4987 Almost all nations always join wars because they benefit from it in some way.
United States: I’m grad we’re on the same page
@@galatheumbreon6862 this joke went too far, I know veterans who fought in that war. Don't joke around about it.
@@clonesolar it was just a little harmless banter, I know that the US joined the allies for better reasons than what my dumb joke implied
My boyfriend is Brazilian and loves learning about ww2, but as a American i was always confused why brazil even did anything in the war, thanks for teaching me something new and creating a video i know my boyfriend will love
Tell your boyfriend: "O certo é biscoito, não bolacha". He will understand.
@@funkyreapercat5280 depends, if he's from the south than that's a REALLY bad idea. Also, "bolacha é o certo".
Nice to see you here!
@@henriquebecker4453 nao e nao o certo e biscoito ! Kkkkk zuera aki em BH falamos biscoito e bolacha. Vai da pessoa e momento
@@henriquebecker4453 o certo é o que está escrito na porra da embalagem
Fun fact: Wanting to bring Brazil to it's side FDR came here and also Walt Disney and in that period the Brazilian character Zé Carioca was created.
Disney played a role in the good neighbor act showing the beauty and modern sights of South American countries we wanted to be on better terms with and alley themselves with us. This also opened up these countries to those who didn't think much of places like Brazil, Peru, Argentina, etc as Europe was who we believed were our equals.
Interesting fact: Brazil following the US and Canada after declaring war against the axis also treated japanese Brazilians along with italian and german ones bad too, however, they were not put into internment camps just had their rights infringed.
@@berniekatzroy Interesting fact(2): because of the pursuit of italian and german descendents, in a point that stores got stoned just because of the family name, the soccer team Itália changed the name for Palmeiras.
@@henriquebecker4453 woah nice fact
@@henriquebecker4453 italia dont have mundial
WOOOOO 1 MILLION! YOU'VE WELL DESERVED IT!!!
"I will never join you USA"
"Metal industry?"
"Deal"
Curiosity about the Brazilian Expeditionary Force: until 1940 the general Mascarenhas de Morais wanted to integrate at least 100 thousand soldiers in case of fighting along side the Allies in Europe, but fun fact: Getúlio didn't wanted that to happen because he still wanted to be friendly with Germany and Italy
If Brazil didn't enter the war, today it would be called "enemies of humanity" in history books...
Congrats for reaching 1 Million subs.
Listen kids, If Brazil wouldn't had attacked germany we would all be speaking German and be eating Pfefferpotthast now.
Oversimplified?
Oversimplified reference
TF is Pfefferpotthast ?
@@Vanadium some German meal I believe
Not so much, the German wanted to conquer some parts of Europe not the entire world
And Germany was not the only country in the axis
Just a curiosity, vargas was ousted from power in 1945, but in 1950 he was elected president and came back as a democratically elected leader
Based
And killed himself in cabinet before being ousted again. A very unique figure.
so he was a good dictator?
@@raptorfromthe6ix833 Yes and no, he did give lots of workers rights, while being "fascist", but he was going to be ousted again, but killed himself before, becoming a hero
@@raptorfromthe6ix833 He was popular and played his popularity as "father of the poor" for establishing workers' rights and opposing local elites. Since most of his opponents came from these elites, he survived politically. He's still remembered fondly by nationalists, mostly on the left.
1 million subscribers! congrats 🥳 you deserved and you deserve more!
Great that you made a video about the FEB (Força Expedicionária Brasileira). And it's so nice to see your dedication to details beyond history itself, such as the characterization of Mascanheiras de Morais, FEB's commander, who had grey hair. :)
Genuinely didn't know Brazil actually fought in the war. Nice little nugget of information !
yeah, the BEF pretty much secured Italy for the Allies.
@@jgr7487 No it did not. While it was an important part in their sector and their help cannot be understated, to say their involvement had a bigger impact on the Italian campaign itself is a falt out lie.
It numbered 25 000 soldiers.
The Allies had a total of 1.5 million men deployed to italy in April 1945
@@jgr7487 25,000 Brazillian Soldiers did not secure Italy for the allies. They did a cracking job but were a very small part of operations with over 2 million troops.
Yeah Brazil won the war alone
@@joshs3066 Nah mate u wong, actualy Brazil has literally won the entire war in the western front and single handed fought the axis
You should stop listen to the liberal media and go study moar, lolz
Congratulations on 1 million subscribers!!! 🎉🎊🥁🎺 I’ve enjoyed these videos greatly for as long as I’ve been tuning in. It’s been awesome watching you grow, keep up the good work.
I got to say in comparison he was alot smarter then the military leadership and the dictators of Japan and Germany ever was from a long term strategic perspective and viewing it from a outside perspective. And the National Socialist government of Germany was foolish enough to start attacking their shipping over it thus making another unnecessary enemy.
It wouldnt have mattered, they would have lost anyway
@@warcrimeconnoisseur5238
I know that. After watching TIK's videos about Germany from my point of view their worse strategic decision was declaring war on America. The decision to attack the Soviet Union was motivated by the need of resources such as oil like a hungry beast that needs food to feed upon.
But declaring war on America which held no advantage was the death sentence that sealed their fate. Should of abandon the alliance with the Japanese then.
@@thorshammer7883 They declared war upon the Soviets because of their ideology, remember the slavs are not germanic and with that dont deserve their lands and they needed slaves for their slave economy, if they really wanted to dominate Europe they should've stayed allied to the Soviets because alot of Russians, Ukrainians etc. really hated the Soviets and only started to like them after Germany wanted the war annahilation
@@warcrimeconnoisseur5238
Is that suppose to be a disagreement or something?
There was multiple reasons why Germany declared war on the Soviet Union that which you mentioned included but also because of resources which their military desperately needed. Going by TIK's videos they were experiencing a large oil shortage where they couldn't fuel their vehicles for very long. So the need of resources was also a factor as to why they did it. Also because Hitler's desire to conquer the lands in the area and colonize them in his warped head.
@@thorshammer7883 Yes he needed oil but he could've just traded with their, at the time, allies for it because the only enemy was the UK, so either H and his whole staff were dumber than a little child or his reason was mainly ideological
Finally a video about the history of my country
I think that a video about the estado novo in Brazil or about the empire would be interesting
...
I have a question. Was Vargas good at leading Brazil or was he bad at it?
@@luket.9113 depend who you ask
Have some people that like him, because he made the economy better and because he created labour rights
And have other people that say he was a dictator
@@luket.9113 kind of, he did develop Brazil, but never managed to get it out of the third world status.
@@samuel....986 Well, he was both of these.
Congrats on 1 million followers!! Well deserved!
Love the Brasilia Times newspaper, since Brasilia would only be officially inaugurated in 1960.
As a brazilian I’m really happy we finally appeared in the channel some of the details a didn’t about it! Great video
I was watching your videos throughout the day (my time), and now noticed that you got 1 Million Subscribers. Congratulations, History Matters!
I have an idea for a video, "How humiliating was The Century of Humiliation?"
I wanna know how different the downfall of Qing and Warlord Era were compared to other dynasties' downfall. Is it actually so different that it warrants the title of complete humiliation or is it the classic Mandate of Heaven under different masks?
Given what I've seen, I think the only thing that made a difference was the length of time
The fall of the Ming dynasty to the Qing was much bloodier and was even a native Chinese regime being ousted by a foreign one rather than a foreign one being fucked over by other foreign ones followed by a native popular uprising.
The Manchurian conquest of China (And also the Mongol conquests of China) were much quicker than the decades of deliberate fucking over that the west collectively did.
I think it's quite simple. The fall of dynasties before were either an internal affair of a new heroic people taking over the now corrupt Royalty that had loss their heavenly mandate, a reunification of a broken China from a previous weak dynasty or an external force conquering and quickly turning chinese themselves.
The century of Humiliation saw external powers bossing China around just to take advantage of it, rather than conquer it for themselves as it was the custom + A gigantic loss of China's historical sphere of influence in places like Mongolia, Indochina, Korea and Japan to those same foreign powers
*Century. The term refers specifically to the period from the Opium Wars to the end of WW2.
The fact that we call it the Warlord Era says a lot in of itself. It took China a long time to reunite after the Qing dynasty fell, between attempts at new governments and a lack of power and legitimacy in the remnant of the dynasty. Even though the Nationalists did the Northern Expedition and gained some authority by retaking Bejing...they still had their capital at Nanjing. Culturally there was an attempt to disconnect from the old Imperial culture and system, to westernize and modernize (somewhat).
It's a dense read but I recommend looking at The Search for Modern China by Johnathan D. Spense. It goes into a lot of detail on that particular era, as well as the leadup to it during the Qing.
@@Robert399 I must've forgotten how long 100-ish years are, sorry
"DO IT YOU COWARD!"
We need more headlines like this.
Your pronunciation of "Getúlio Vargas" is perfect gahdamn
When an Austrian man took over Germany invades poland so you as an Italian have to fight the Brazilians who have invaded your country along with America and Britain.
That's why it's called... a world war
Worse if you're an Italian immigrant to Brazil, so a) you got back to Italy and now have to fight your old neighbours, or b) you got conscripted and the same thing's happening
Don't forget the polish, Indians and Arabs
@@vulpes7079 There were in fact a lot of italian (and a few german and japanese) men in the brazilian army back then.
@@crazy1tad1pole1 1) I'm Brazilian
2) What did you think my comment was referring to?
Japan: “The allies sent us a letter.”
Germany: “What does it say?”
Japan: “It says we’re going to Brazil.“
Germany: (calmly walks outside and accepts defeat)
And then hitler went all *insert the Downfall scene meme here*
Hitler killed him self bc he don’t want to go to Brazil
And they actually came to Brazil, and to Argentina, and Uruguay, and maybe other South American countries.
Brazil's involvement made no difference in the outcome at all. They joined bc they wanted a seat at the victors table. Germany was no threat to them and had no interest in Brazil.
@@metametodo FEGELEIN
As a Brazilian I can say history doesn't get the recognition it should get by the people. Not many know where Brazil even fought in WW2 in the first place. It should be noted that the brazilian force was extremely unprepared and if we didn't get trained by the Americans, it would have gone pretty badly. Kudos to all the men who took this fight to Europe
Nice video, it'd be cool to see one on Mexico's involvement in the war, and the service of the Aztec Eagles in the Liberation Of The Philippines.
Yes on the Aztec Eagles
Brazil's history is so interesting. It has been on the cusp of becoming a major international player almost two hundred years, but has managed to avoid getting dragged into siding with any one side in particular and instead has chosen to develop itself while being the dominant player of South America both locally and on the global stage.
It is actually very similar to what the US could have been had they never got involved in WWI and maintained their isolationist stance toward European/global politics.
Indeed very interesting, but I don't read it the same way. Trying to complement your thoughts:
Brazil was created as and kept being an agrarian powerhouse based on slavery. While being "richer" than the US for most of the first colonial centuries, it never made the leap of industrialization that happened in northeastern US in the early XIX, and it never quite had an expressive middle class. Later it became a pawn in the global stage while remaining a regional leader.
Maybe it's similar to what he US could've been if the CSA won?
Except in the imperial times, Brazil did get involved alot with foreign wars and was an international player
@@Joao-de9gl more like if the US kept slavery and the American Civil War never happened - slavery would eventually die out or be reformed into something else and the internal division would keep America busy with internal affairs. Thus, they would remain isolationist and eventually perhaps ended up like Brazil
@@ZapQuacc Sure, but would this "something else" be Brazil?
I can agree with you right up until the Cold War. Then we defaulted into a banana republic. Sure, bigger and more complex than the Caribbean variety, but still a military junta-run puppet state for the US, from 1964 right until 1985.
And our current guy has a pretty bad case of nostalgia for those times. He was even caught saluting the American flag.
I'm Brazilian and what can i say this is very, very accurate to our history, and is a proud to us had fight against the nazi. Our soldiers from FEB and our aviators from FAB never been forgotten. As we can say while the war was happening, "The Snake smoked". Good job as always and thank you to tell a bit more of our history.
What do you mean? Of course they've been forgotten, children in school aren't teached about what Brazil did in ww2 and most Brazilians don't even know we sent troops
@@dedsec6072 olha vc lembrando... Rs
@@dedsec6072 I've learned a lot about Vargas and Brazil's role in WW2 in school
I don't know why but Hitler looks a little different to how I remember him in these videos
Used a different model, this one might be the first vid with the new model, but I don’t remember.
Yeah, the mustache looks fuzzy.
I think his skin has been tanned+His mustache has turned into a circle
We need an episode about why Argentina so loves military coups
answer- usa
It's because of the USA
@@samuel....986 First coups were British backed. US coups backing started in 1955.
Why did France, Spain, Chile, Brazil, SKorea, Taiwan...
Not as much as thailand
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Well, this video has the merit of avoiding the pro fascist Vargas stereotype and carefully showing how the pro axis hints were made to gather even more support from the allies, thus following the more well accepted historiography instead of delving into internet myths, thank you
That being said the most important brazilian trade partner was the USA, Germany never came close to threaten the position of the US as the main brazilian trade partner as Vargas was an personal friend of FDR
Overral a nice video
Edit In fact I would say that this is the best video about brazilian participation in WWII made by a large youtube channel yet
Olha quem tá aí
The only reason why half if not more of Latin America didn't join the Axis was because the US held so much power over these regimes that they never dared. Their ideological sympathies were largely on the Axis side, especially in Argentina, but also in Brazil.
@@yarpen26 The brazilian army and government was americanophile, they never considered joining the axis, this is a myth supported by the current brazilian far right
They considered either neutrality or joining the allies, but since the USA offered so much money that it greatly overcame any profit neutrality could bring, we were bought into the allies
In the book "Documentos históricos do Estado-Maior do Exército". Esteves Diniz analyses all the brazilian army internal reports from before and during the war and none consider joining the axis
*tosse* canal nostalgia *tosse* *tosse*
@@Gustavogukpa far right are the integralist, bolsonarists are far away from being far right, by they do are dumb
As a Brazilian, I like this
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Allies: “Latin America, are you with us or against us”
Brazil: “with you all the way”
Argentina: “… do we have to?”
Brazil is not latin american.
@@freiervogel3440
How?
@@freiervogel3440 A Latin speaking country in America? I feel like it qualifies
@@freekmulder3662 America is a country, not a continent. Language has nothing to do with this topic, so no, it does not "qualify".
@@freiervogel3440 America is not a country, its just used as the short for united states of america sometimes. And Brazil IS Latin American, what the hell do you mean language has nothing to do with this? Portuguese is descended from Latin.
He wanted his troops to fight gloriously
Gets mad when his troops do just that
Thats dictatorships for you
Heros are wonderful during wartime, but the peace that comes after, they become a risk
Just look at the USSR, or 90% of Imperial Roman history
Brazil's worst enemy was always itself.
@@idaboi8378 the only closest example of that clownery for the USSR was with Stalin and the idea of autonomy enterprise in industrialization, and I doubt you even know "90%" of Roman history so stop excusing clownery for whatever "reason", it's distinguishable becuz it's Brazil, final.
@@greyscaleb1537 ill assume tankie
Given you seemed to of forgotten 1 piece of history everyone knows
Le big purge, where everyone who was seen as a threat to power was... removed
Like, Hero of the Revolution, Leon Trotsky
Then ofc you have the demotion of Zhukov after he gets Khrushchev into power
Why you try and claim the USSR didn't do this is beyond me
and the "90% of Imperial Roman history" was a joke, we all know it was 100%
@@idaboi8378 yes
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The ending was such a tone shift
@André Luis Carneiro ?
@@anguswaterhouse9255 he was elected again after the war,and committed suicide some time later
@@anguswaterhouse9255 he was known as a man who masters the 2 sides of the coin. Being good with the rich and father of the poors. He was elected years later and to avoid a military coup for some more years, he comite suicide uniting the country. Sadly this only lasted for some years and a military dictatorship was installed in 1964. There are some nuances in this, but its to complicated to point that out. Yes Carlos Lacerda, i'm talking to you.
Vargas: "BEF, you are fired"
BEF: "não, você é"
This begs the question of how one says "Uno Reverse Card" in Portuguese
@@nathaniellindner313 carta reversa or carta inversão do sentido :p yw
Replace "não, você é" with "não, você está."
In portuguese the verb ser is the verb to be when referring to a permanent attribute, and estar for changing/conditional attributes. I'm not sure if i explained it well. It's just like spanish.
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"He knew how that would end" is the funniest sight gag on this channel yet.
Here is a story : During the war in the city of Rio, a little girl is in her house and notices the lights are off. And it is not just her house but others houses as well. She is a little confused why they are doing this. What is it? What is going on? Did something happen? Why did we turn off the lights?
Eventually these stopped but it was a very fascinating event that happened.
That little girl is my Grandma (mom’s side) and she is still doing great today!
Love you grandma! 🇺🇸🇧🇷
nice! god bless you all :)
But why are the lights off?
@@napolien1310 Wartime blackouts, so the enemy doesn't see the city lights at night.
@@rbzbsb yeah but it was Brazil, did a skirmish happened there or something!?
@@napolien1310 Nothing happened. I was going to say "submarines" but recall my grandparents in São Paulo also had to do it, so it has to be them being afraid of bombers.
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1:43 Rio De Janeiro Was Still Capital City of Brazil UNTIL *1961*
From a Brazilian, here's a few things about Vargas he couldn't say in a three minutes video.
He is a very important, almost mythological figure of our national history, one that can't be ignored, even in the slightest. His actions changed the economical and social landscape of the entire country, from North to South, in good and bad ways.
At first, in 1930, he was a normal president, with limitations to his powers and all that boring stuff. From 1937 to 1945, after a self-coup, he had basically unlimited powers, this period is called Estado Novo. He industrialized the country, created/compiled the first (decent) work laws of the country, invested on infrastructure in the Amazonian region, started efforts to settle the sparsely populated Center-Western region with mild successes and generally improved the country's economical situation. Almost every major government-owned company today was created under his government.
Although, as any dictator he brutally repressed opposition, banned all parties and had no scruples when it came to exiling, torturing or killing political opponents. But most importantly for me, as a southerner: during WW2 banned languages spoken by the Axis countries. Our country is home to many immigrants and their descendants, some of which never learned portuguese, especially in the South. His government did very bad things to anyone who refused (or was unable) to speak portuguese. For this, some here absolutely hate him and see him as nothing more than a tyrant. Many people who only spoke german or italian never spoke it again, even after the repression ended and this unfortuantely led to much of our identity being lost.
in 1945, he was deposed and had his political rights restricted for some years. Then the madlad got elected. This time he had little power and after some events, commited suicide. Crowds attended to his funeral and the nation was in a general state of grief.
He is loved and hated, seen as the Father of the Poor by some and as a fascist tyrant by others. Quite possibly the most controversial figure of our history and there's yet to be born anyone that will have such an impact on the country. Also, please feel free to add anything or to correct me, as we are here to learn, not to impose ourselves.
if it has more than 3 lines of text i dont read
Sorry pal
So essentially hes the Brazilian version of how many famous American figures nowadays are somewhat controversial, like the founding fathers being good for forming the USA, but controversial cause many of them were slave owners.
@@nejiiuyn He's more like Woodrow Wilson
@@nejiiuyn well I was going to write a lot to differentiate him from the American founding fathers, but the guy above said it better. Vargas is Woodrow Wilson. Fuck them both.
The cultural impact of his government almost killed off both the national cultures and those of the immigrants. Paradoxically, his attempt at cultural homogeneity destroyed Brazilian culture, and paved the way to the soulless monstrosity that BR pop culture has become now
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We need an episode asking the question: Why is James Bisonette so wealthy?
He's cloning Kelly Moneymaker.
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Allies: "So, what can you offer us as a fighting force?"
Brazil" "We got ju-jitsu"
Capoeira is better, brazilian jiu-jitsu is just a worst judo
@@bebedor_de_cafe3272 nop, BJJ is better
@@bebedor_de_cafe3272 BJJ is one of the most effective fighting disciplines in the world. You can’t compete as a professional fighter without some kind of base in it.
@@DiviAugusti It was tried for the olimpics, but it didnt pass because it was a worse judo, brazilian jiu jitsu is derived from judo
@@mmm12718 BJJ is just worse judo, BJJ is derived from Judo, and is just a version with less moves
My grandfather, who join BEF and fought the nazis in Italy, used to tell me that Axis soldiers would usually surrender to brazillians. He said that the germans and italians used to do that cause brazillian soldiers would treat then well and party with the surrenders and that the americans usually would torture or kill the germans/italians.
soviets aswell, but those who surrendered would mostly go to camps in siberia for years before leaving, german soldiers were terrified of the soviet gulags.
Imagina a tropa brasileira fazendo um churrasco com samba e os chucrutes kkkkk🤣
Love to see this topic get some love! Did my senior thesis on the pracinhas and how they, having been trained and equipped by the Americans, became so effective as a fighting force (even learning to travel and fight on skis) that they were virtually interchangeable with American GI's amongst the American V (5th) Army. I titled my thesis "The 'Other' Americans" though I really should have gone with "The Brazilian Badasses!" haha "O Cobra Que Fumou!!"