What Did Brazil Do in World War 2? | The South American Ally
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Brazil: "I'm neutral. Leave my merchant ships alone."
Central / Axis Powers: *sinks Brazilian merchant ships*
Brazil: "So, you have chosen death."
*Sends in the smoking cobras.*
Pretty much. We don't like when people hurt us in any way, most people I know are fighters of sorts.
It was the americans who sank our ships!!!
Verdade isso aí
@Tiago de Mello Couple that with the fact that we have relatively high morale, making fun of our own misfortunes, being a very lively people.
Violence and brutality? check.
High morale? check.
Totally unsubstantiated BS. No evidence of Americans sinking Brazilian ships.
RUclipsr: *Mentions Brazil*
Brazilians: We’ve been summoned!
AD SUMUS !
brazil,you said,we came
Ahhahauahaua bem isso
vocant nos
Heuahehahheha Simmm kkkkkkk
Interestingly enough, after the war the "smoking snake" expression changed meaning from "never gonna happen" to "something aggressive/violent will happen", like: "If you say that, the snake will smoke!".
Lol, did you know that the entire world did a joke with brazil saying: “it’s easier to a snake smoke than brazil joining the war” and then when brazil joined the war brazil said “THE SNAKE WILL SMOKE!”
@@jivelane nao caralho, o nome do bagulho SURGIU DESSA EXPRESSAO. algum politico na epoca disse que "era mais facil uma cobra fumar do que o Brasil ir a guerra"
@@jivelane HAHAHAHA XDDDDDD
I didn't know that.
But my friend said that it's used to express something serious will happen like when you get into a fight with someone they say "a cobra vai fumar"
The snake will start to smoke
@@sakuraa2008 nowadays it is used like that, but it is not common
Some fun facts
1- Brazil's medical team not only helped their own soldiers, but the US black soldiers aswell, cause the soldiers trusted brazilian doctors more.
2- Brazilians took care of the Italians citizens, share their food etc, in Gaggio Montano, 21 February, they celebrate in tribute of the "pracinhas"
3- Some brazilian soldiers pretended to be italian, so they can go to the germans and get cigarettes.
4-The brazilian force complained to the captain of the us force, that some of their stuffs were missing and that some of the American soldiers stole them, the captain was mad, saying that is a warzone and they should take more care of their stuff, so in return the stole one of their tanks.
5-Brazil managed to get one of the british fallen airplanes and planned to keep it, England stated that if they didn't returned it, they would be enemies, so the did, but without any ammunition.
the tank one is fake
@@spidersae2wswd54 fonte?
@@meneijo vozes na minha cabeça
Isso provavelmente aconteceu.
based brazil
No idea Brazil sent troops, awsome, 25,000 is not insignificant at all. Compared to how some other S. American countries conducted themselves during the war, that is something to be very proud of. Go Brasil fighting for freedom against tyranny.👍
One of four independent American nations that send troops overseas, they were Canada, United States, Mexico, and Brazil.
Shame they harboured nazis after the war though.
@@TesterAnimal1 So did the US and Argentina.
@@TesterAnimal1 I thought that was Argentina
@@theletterl8948 Josef Mengele, died:
7 February 1979 (aged 67)
South Atlantic Ocean, off Bertioga, Santos, São Paulo, Brazil
I visited the World War II monument and mausoleum in Rio de Janeiro in 2016. Really moving experience. As a Jewish-American and a lover of Brazil, I'm so grateful to the men there who fought and gave their lives to defeat the Axis.
As a brazilian, thanks for the love! All humans deserves be treated with justice and equality
@@taynahibanez9952 Absolutely! Amor e abraços ao Brasil
@@aaronmarks9366 Um abraço! ^_^
You guys must to see the history of "Senta a Pua", its unbelievable! The 1st Fighter Aviation Group (Portuguese: 1º Grupo de Aviação de Caça, 1st GAvCa) is the first fighter aviation group of the Brazilian Air Force, well known for having participated in the Second World War in the Italian Campaign and in the South Atlantic Campaign. The documentary is incredible nice and the history of Danilo Moura that was shoot down behind the enemies lines and walked 400km asking food and cigarettes to german soldiers is quite crazy! 🤣 He did everything differently that learned. he walked in the midle of the German army pretending to be a beggar, begging for cigarettes and food until back to allied lines. The 1º GAVCA of FAB (Brazilian air force) was the first non-American squadron to receive the Presidential Unit Citation, an honor granted by the US government. Aside from the 1st GAVCA, only two foreign units were awarded the medal - both from the Australian Air Force.
Wdym jewish American? Is It family from Israel and then u were born in usa?
I'm Brazilian and my great-grandfather went to fight in Italy. My grandfather always told me stories about the war. I'm very proud of him. And he was son of Italian immigrants
Ele tá vivo ainda?
@@erickmatos2613 Não, meu bisavô que foi lutar na Itália, morreu em 2003 e meu avô que me contava as histórias morreu em 2015. O Geremias(bisavô), ele era do interior de Antônio Prado aqui no Rio grande do sul. Ele era da parte de logística, teve participação em combate apenas uma vez quando o comboio dele foi atacado. Mas como ele era da parte de logística, tinha contato com muitos militares, o que rendeu muitas histórias além das dele para contar.
@@adrianobelle1253 bravo demais!! Deveria ser super legal conversar e ouvir as histórias deles
Edit: é bem louco pensar que vamos ser a última geração a ter contato com esses veteranos da Segunda Guerra
@@erickmatos2613 sim cara , o problema é que nem me lembro mais de várias das histórias. Quando eu servi o exército em 2017, participei de uma palestra com um veterano da FEB, cara foi mt foda, o cara mesmo contando. E sim, somos os últimos a ter contato com esses bravos soldados. Bah e talvez do jeito que está andando as coisas, pode ser que sejamos nós aqui de 60 anos falando como foi a terceira guerra , tenso haha
@@adrianobelle1253 kkkkk verdade
Bem no ano que eu completo 18 os europeus começam a querer brigar de novo
9:00 - A small correction, it's not "Cobras Fumarem" but instead "Cobras Fumantes" ("Smoking Snakes"), which comes from the full phrase "É mais fácil uma cobra fumar do que o Brasil ir para a guerra" ("It's easier for a snake to smoke than for Brazil to go to war").
Portuguese is a very complicated a hard language, so I'll give you a pass on this one :D
COBRAS FUMANTES ETERNA É SUA VITÓRIA!
"Portuguese is a very complicated a hard language"
haha no
@@MrShadowThief Its the verbs that are the nightmare and the nasal sounds.
@@MrShadowThief you just posted cringe
@@MrShadowThief bro ur gonna lose subscriber
The Brazilians were more well-known to have sent their combat pilots in the Italian campaign and became total daredevils in the air with their Thunderbolt and helped the Allies in locking down the air perimeter from the Germans.
The 1 GAVCA was formed in late 1943 and once they were done with training, they were sent to the US to be reequipped with new P-47 Thunderbolts and then promptly sent to Italy by July 1944 to be under 350th Fighter Group of the 12th Air Force of the USAAF.
Once they got to Italy, most of the death-defying missions like low-level strafing and bunker busting jobs went to the 1 GAVCA and not only that, they too had to double back as fighter escorts thus many of their pilots became bogged down and strained with combat fatigue that by the end of the Italian campaign, out of 350 fighter pilots that were sent to Italy, only 20-something pilots remain as some were killed, captured but the bulk of them had to be sent back to Brazil due to severe strain due to combat fatigue.
However, they gained a reputation for being staunch pilots who never gave up an inch even when the odds were against them and garnered respect from pilots across the Italian plains and by the end of the campaign, they flew a total of 445 missions, over 2000 sorties and despite clocking just 5% combat times against the other air wings in Italy, the lowest of everyone, they backed it up by having one of the highest destruction rate per total flight time against all listed targets.
It must be added, that the 1st GAVCA was deployed in Italy after the allies had established near-absolute air superiority. Without enemy planes to combat, the Brazilian pilots were assigned fighter-bomber roles, attacking key targets such as railways, bridges, overpasses, tunnels, munition depots, and fuel stockpiles, and after the main objectives were completed, the Brazilian pilots roamed the nearby areas looking for targets of opportunity, like train cars and locomotives, military trucks, anything they could positively identify as belonging to the enemy. Quite often they returned to base only after firing every single bullet they had on the P-47's eight machineguns and regularly asking for emergency landing clearance because they were running on fumes.
As attrition started to mount, with losses of pilots to ground fire, equipment malfunction, and mental and emotional fatigue, the 1st GAVCA was offered a reduction in their allotted missions, and the Brazilian commanders politely declined. Eventually, the higher command pushed in a lower 'quota' of missions (in the words of a pilot, Fernando Moccelin, "to prevent the 1st GAVCA from becoming a suicide unit'). At a time other units operated with (expected) 45 pilots, the 1st GAVCA, which had started the campaign already understrength (34 airmen), had been quickly ground down to less than 30 (hence their "low combat times"); with no expectations of replacement airmen. Pilots regularly flew two sorties per mission on the same day, returning to base to refuel, rearm, and take off again. Combat fatigue gradually became a greater threat to men and machines than the enemy they continued to pound into rubble and tear apart with deadly machinegun hail, chasing the ever-retreating Nazis out of Italy into the Alps.
Down to only 21 pilots, the 1st GAVCA was at the Briefing Room, preparing to launch into another mission when the phone rang with the news that the day's operations were canceled: the Third Reich had surrendered.
You guys must to see the history of "Senta a Pua", its unbelievable! The 1st Fighter Aviation Group (Portuguese: 1º Grupo de Aviação de Caça, 1st GAvCa) is the first fighter aviation group of the Brazilian Air Force, well known for having participated in the Second World War in the Italian Campaign and in the South Atlantic Campaign. The documentary is incredible nice and the history of Danilo Moura that was shoot down behind the enemies lines and walked 400km asking food and cigarettes to german soldiers is quite crazy! 🤣 He did everything differently that learned. he walked in the midle of the German army pretending to be a beggar, begging for cigarettes and food until back to allied lines. The 1º GAVCA of FAB (Brazilian air force) was the first non-American squadron to receive the Presidential Unit Citation, an honor granted by the US government. Aside from the 1st GAVCA, only two foreign units were awarded the medal - both from the Australian Air Force.
I like the nickname for the BEF; the Smoking Cobras. It’s such badass name that can inspire art. Also, the saying of “When snakes smoke” sounds more cooler than “When pigs fly.”
after the war the meaning of the saying chaged, it's more like when things get agressive or a threat like "You won't do what I said? Well, the snake will smoke"
for some reason almost every country in every language has a saying about animals that means that something is not going to happen. one other phrase that we have is "nem que a vaca tussa" wich means "not even when a cow coughs"
Ikr
As a brazilian the therm would be "The snake will smoke", "A cobra vai fumar".
@@galmenz6118 Well its meaning changed to when something violent will happen in brazil
It’s strange how Brazil supported the Allies at the end, considering they had a ton of immigrants from Italy, Germany and Japan
And a fascist President. But, american dollars talked louder. Brazil could finally start the iron And steal indústry with the american suport.
Nos apoiamos pela tecnologia nuclear que o presidente americano disse que nos forneceria mas não cumprindo o acordo isso nos fez roubar projetos de países árabes como irá e Israel nos ajudou muito com tecnologia. Isso nos fez um dos poucos países capazes de manusear tecnologia nuclear com tecnologia própria nos possibilitando a fazer um avanço significativo no mundo por isso nos fomos para a segunda guerra
Many of them weren't happy. Some japanese organized the Shindo Renmei, a terrorist organization centered around São Paulo which believed that the defeat of the Tenno was brazilian propaganda. Also Brazil was more ideologically aligned with the Axis, so it was this close to joining it, but American money talks.
Brazil supported the freedom of the Italian people from fascist control and later from Nazism. As for Italian, Japanese and German immigration, Brazil welcomed them with open arms, giving them the opportunity to restart their lives in our country, all this has nothing to do with our sovereignty to choose who we will defend, we will always defend peace, this is constitutional under Brazilian law, and the position that Brazil took in that situation was to defend democracy against the extremism of the axis countries.
Those immigrants had virtually no political power or influence
"Brazil became increasingly distrustful of its large South American neighbor Argentina"
*a rivalry as old as time*
What's this "Uruguay" you speak of? That's a weird way to say Cisplatina
You're indeed a man of culture
😂
Uruguay is a province of Argentina 🇦🇷
@@reydebuenosaires9272 no, hombre, Uruguay es nuestro estado colchón, así Argentina y Brasil no empezan a pelear entre sí.
Las Islas Malvinas Argentina, and Brazil gets Cisplatina.
Some fun facts about the FEB and FAB:
1: The FEB mostly support the American 10th mountain division during the war.
2: FAB (Força Aérea Brasileira/ Brazilian air force) just like their ground counterparts had a strange logo, an ostrich in a cloud, shooting a Revolver with a text saying "SENTA A PUA!"
A comical way to say "fire at will"
3: Most equipment and training of the Brazilian military was very outdated at 1942, so they trained for almost 2 years to finally receiving experience in American equipment like: M1903A1 rifle (standard issue rifle for the FEB), M1 carbine, M1 garand (most of this rifles were scavenge in battle, because the US refused to provide the Brazilians with semi auto rifles), Thompson Smgs and many others.
4: The song by Sabaton "Smoking Snakes"
Tell the myth of 3 Brazilian soldiers who held the advance of almost 150 german soldiers, but this history is most likely just that, a myth.
5: There's not much media about then about them, but there's many documentaries and a movie called "Estrada 47" which tell a part of the Brazilians expeditionary force.
I don’t think it’s a myth, it’s documented that 3 graves were found with a jury-rigged plaque that said in German “here lie 3 brave Brazilians”. Seems odd they bothered to honor their dead adversaries lest they did something to earn, not to mention that called them “brave”. Though that’s literally all I know about the topic so I’m no expert haha.
@@mathewwinn ruclips.net/video/jBaj3prH6NA/видео.html
Kkkk eu não sabia desse símbolo da FAB
a gente nem tem avestruz
@@gustavosauro1882 É porque avestruz era a principal carne que tinha nas refeições.
@@mathewwinn In a museum in Sao Joao del Rey, the history simple states that the three brazilians were on patrol and when confronted by overwelming forces the german CO asked for surrender, the brazilians opened fired. They didn't held any advance, and probably were killed few moments after opening fire. But it really showed bravery.
fun fact, the memorial to Brazilian soldiers in itally is also a thanks to how nice the brazilian soldiers were to italians, as they didnt rape or steal stuff after the battles with was very uncommon at this war
The Italian relatives themselves denied food to the children, because food was scarce. Brazilian soldiers played and shared their food with the children. That's why the people of Montese don't forget the Brazilians. testimony from Italians, children at the time, now elderly.
The memorial is at Pistoia/Italy they preserve our memory and the school kids sings a song in memory of FEB members.
Brazilian forces had no racial segregation amongst them. Black people would be placed in roles of command with white subordinates. It's said that black Americans fighting in the war were amazed by this and started questioning themselves why couldn't they also be in commanding positions. Upon returning home these men started to fight for equality inside the army and that was one of the starting points of the civil rights movement in the US.
Don't know how much of this is true, but I remember reading it.
Funnily enough, slavery ended in Brasil in part because of the military, during and after the war against Paraguay, they started questioning slavery, as they'd fight and die as equals, so what sense did it make to treat them otherwise after it was over
Parece forçado pra caralho, exército era todo mastigado na época e quem foi recrutado foi majoritariamente mulatos pobres e sem muito estudo
Não digo isso nem como depreciação, mas entusiasmo pra uma guerra europeia não se tinha dado o estado do exército e a neutralidade política
Quem tinha dinheiro e estudo no máximo iria como médico e quem tem descendência italiana ou alemã ou evitaria ao máximo ou se juntaria ao outro lado
Mc Catra dando ordens pra um pelotão de olhos azuis é mais coisa de filme de Hollywood mesmo
As a Brazilian who is versed in the history of his country, I have to say that this is a very complete narrative. Excellent work!
Brazil was an important source of quartz crystals during the war, which was an important material for radios and other electronics.
Great video. Just a small language detail: "Cobra" in Portuguese actually just means "snake", not just cobras. The word for the specific kind of snake we call "cobra" in English is actually "naja" in Portuguese.
Also, the BEF troops were called "Cobras Fumantes", not "Cobras Fumarem". "Fumante" means someone who (or something that) smokes, "fumarem" is the future conditional of the verb "fumar", "to smoke", so the frase was "Só vai acontecer quando as cobras fumarem" or "It will only happen when snakes smoke". Then it did happen, so they were called "Cobras Fumantes" or "Smoking Snakes".
Usefull information over there
O mais certo na verdade é usar o termo "serpente", mas acaba q a gente usa cobra como sinônimo de serpente mesmo
Portugal was so eager to find cobras in the western “Indias” (Brazil), that they never bothered teaching us that those we have here are actually serpents
Aaaaaaa agora a cobra vai fumar
Bom Dia, the joys of Portuguese
A politician once said: "Is easier to a snake to smoke than Brazil to go into the WW2."
So our troops starts to use the expression: A cobra vai fumar (the snake will smoke)
It was Getúlio Vargas one of our presidents
@Willy Zemlya irmão, vai aprender a escrever inglês, urgente
@@Gabriel-rp2pc Irmão, vai procurar quem perguntou sua opinião, urgente
@@willyzemlya irmão como eu faço pra comentar no RUclips? É urgente
@@willyzemlya Beleza então, guri fã de Minecraft. Vai tentar falar com os gringos com esse seu inglês nível zero, vai
About the brazilian war of independence, it was more of a civil war between the states that aligned with the Rio de Janeiro (independentists and sided with Pedro) and those in the north and northeast that still had an allegiance to Lisboa (wanted to stay with Portugal). In fact, all of latin america independence wars was more of a civil war, very different from the american war of independence for example, as Portugal and Spain wore in a crisis and unable to send much troops to the colonies, so the armies that were fighting for the crown was formed by people born in the americas that had more interest in staying as a colony.
Just a correction, no Brazilians fought for the Portuguese in the Brazilian War of Independence. The fronts in Bahia, Cisplatina and Piauí were made exclusively of Portuguese troops shipped in before hostilities broke out. What did happen was the shelling into submission of the city of São Luís after they refused to recognize the imperial government.
@@cassianoneto1553 And also the Confederation of the Equator revolt in the northeast, right after the independence, was linked with the discontent with the imperial regime.
(Como tu é brasileiro vou escrever o resto em português, de fato as tropas eram formadas por portugueses, mas se não me engano tinha algumas lideranças políticas nascidas no Brasil que eram contrários a independência, mas precisava reler alguns textos lá do começo da minha graduação para confirmar essas infos.)
@@ultramang55 Sim, por isso eu definiria as guerras da regência e do primeiro reinado como guerras civis. Houve resistência à independência e submissão ao Rio por parte de brasileiros, mas durante a guerra de independência nenhuma milícia ou força armada composta por brasileiros chegou a lutar contra o império (as próprias forças imperiais continham portugueses, especialmente na marinha).
já na america latina, os espanhois foram expulsos na marra msm, no mexico a infraestrutura local foi destruida pelos espanhois que se retiraram... chile teve que recorrer a apoio argentino para expulsar os espanhois.. e tem a historia de Bolivar que é tensa...
Make no mistake, this civil war aspect was also very much in American war of independence, a big portion of the combatants on the british side were also American loyalists, and there were also specific loyalists states and separatists states. Yes, Portugal sent fewer troops than England did, and that's why the war was much shorter and less brutal, but it wasn't that different in that aspect.
The American bases in Brazil were also important because Brazil is significantly closer to Europe than any other country in the Americas. The closest point to Europe in the New World is the Northeast region of Brazil were the bases were built.
Brazil didn't have a steel industry at all, didn't have the technology. The US would transfer technology to Brazil, kick starting a steel industry, besides investing in it.
When US representatives come to Brazil for WWII remembrance, they thank Brazil first and most prominently for the service in the Battle of the Atlantic. Besides opening new, shorter and better protected routes to Europe, Brazil was also rather effective in protecting the convoys. Only three transport ships were lost in the routes Brazil was responsible for. I don't think it's a stretch to say Brazil was very important in winning the Battle of the Atlantic.
The only part of the American uniform Brazilians adopted was the helmet, because that was a standard used for friend or foe identification. They did use American uniforms when the logistical problems of the BEF meant those were the only ones available. Later, after the logistical problems were solved, they would also need to adopt American jackets and liners because they were employed in the mountains, something they were never asked to prepare for. In the images of the BEF in Italy, the Brazilian troops do stand out because of their characteristic uniforms, which were specifically developed for the campaign.
Brazil was the first country in WWII to accept an entire division surrender.
Yeah they even made a plan for invading the country if Brazil decided not to give them bases. Lol
Hello Hilbert. Just recently I was talking with a Polish friend, who knew my uncle had been a POW in Italy before later escaping from a German POW coal mine in Silesia. He always talks about how many nations fought alongside the Polish soldiers in Italy. I surprised him by saying about this BEF also being involved. Very fascinating.
FEB '-'
@@messi_nascimento BEF é a sigla em inglês
@@felipeviana2351 ata legal
Nice video. Now we need one about dutch invasion of Brazil in the XVII century. It's a very important event for the brazilian identity, as it viewed by many as the birth of our nationality. I would love to see you making a video on this subject, as it would be the other side perspective.
A Black commander leading quilombolas, a indigenous commander leading his people, and white/mixed race colonists team up to expel the Dutch.
Btw, an interesting fact about the Ducth invasion of the Northeast:
After the Dutch defeat against the Luso-brazilian forces in pernambuco, many captured Dutch ended up in Rio de Janeiro, which they then went on to live in an area of the city that received the name Flamengo, which means "Flemish", and is due to these Dutch people that had settled there.
Birth of our nationality? Bruh, the average Brazilian joe doesn't even know about the Dutch invasions lmao
@@andarilho_31 He misquoted that, it’s not considered the birth of the nationality, that only came later with the buildup to independence and centuries of identity building, what the battle against the Dutch means is the beginning of the Brazilian Army as chosen by the armed forces nowadays. That used to be the Paraguay war, but wanting to increase popular prestige and unity after the dictatorship the army began to claim those Guararapes battles as their birth.
@@cassianoneto1553 No, I mean the birth of our nationality.
Even today, Italy is grateful for the help that Brazil gave in World War II
Its kinda ridiculous that countries like Brazil,Canada and so many others don't get mentioned in history books when talking abt WWII..
Greek and Brazilian independence wars started almost together, 1821 and 1822. Nice greetings from Greece 🇬🇷
It’s nice to hear about these countries role in WWII that we hear so little about. Thank you, Hilbert!
When I was in school I went to a museum dedicated about these soldiers and WWII. It was awesome because there was a very old guy who would tell us about the battles and the culturw shock between the american troops and the brazilians, and most important how they shared food and water (which were already very limited) with Italian civilians who were starving at the time.
He recalled someone (I don't remember if it was his dad or someone specific) who gave his food and water to a woman who was really hungry and pregnant. Then years latter after the war he went back to this city and when a girl who worked in a restaurant asked if he was a brazilian soldier (because he was wearing the uniform) and he said yes, they refused to let them pay for the food, he and his colleagues because they were very thankful for what they did during the war. He said to this day they are always so respectful and grateful for what they done to any brazilian soldiers who go there, is very wholesome. And I'm pretty sure that that guy reunited with the woman he helped or her daughter out of luck when he was in Italy (can't remember the details because thay was a long time ago lmao). I find those human moments way more impressive than winning any battles.
My grandfather fought in Italy in 1944.
tive um tio que foi convocado pra ingressar na FEB, mas desertou, não queria ir pro front.
Meu pai foi um ex pracinha, pertencia ao Regimento Sampaio.
Two brothers of my grandfather died fighting for Brazil in Italy
Meus respeitos por esses heróis
Meus sentimentos. Com muito orgulho sou filho de um ex pracinha do glorioso Regimento Sampaio.
A brazilian squad camped on an elevated position decided to light a fire to warm themselves, despite the fact that it would tell their position to the enemy. The enemy being sure it was a trap decided not to attack, because they thought nobody in their right minds would just give away their position just to warm themselves
Fun fact: the independence of Brazil came 9 years later after the soundtrack to this video (1812, Tchaikovsky) was composed (1880)
People told me a brazilian story about the war, brazilians were not experienced enough in war environment, so they lit a firecamp to heat food and warm. But that revealed their position to the enemies. The germans never seen such strategy and they were afraid to attack, thinking it was a trap.
"Cobras fumantes", not "Cobras Fumarem". Also, the division captured by the brazilians in Collecchio was not italian, but german with some italian reinforcements. The german general in command of the captured division was Otto Fretter-Pico.
and its one of the biggest surrender event in ww2
If anyone is interested, there is an interview with a Brazilian WWII veteran in my channel.
My views in this video is that it is an nice account of the campaign with accurate data and the events are perfectly told in an accurate way. The two nitpicks I would make is that it is "cobras fumantes" not "cobras fumarem" and Getúlio Vargas was not a dictator until 1937.
I love your Brazilian dictatorship videos
Actually Getulio had always been a dictator. He ripped off the constitution and ruled under provisional laws. That's why a revolution erupted in São Paulo in 1932 (of course it was supported by the state oligarchies that wanted back the power, but the core of the revolutionaries pursued a constitution). The 1937 "intentona comunista" was just a pretext to declare the so called "Estado de Sítio" (or state of siege) that would halt elections, put the army under his direct command and allow him to promulgate any laws he wanted to without passing trough the congress.
@@ThomasAdsumus eh, no, what you are saying is basically the constitutionalist lost cause myth
First of all, the democratic system worked until 1937
Second of all, São Paulo supported the 1930 revolution, as the authoritarian system of the old republic was active here, political killings were common for example, and this led the paulista opposition such as Francisco Morato to support the uprising since they saw that as the only way for democracy
The 1932 civil war was an attempt for a counter revolution to revert the changes from the revolution, but they were so popular that the rebels basically seized only the state of São Paulo and a garrison in southern mato grosso and got crushed in three months
The intentona comunista was in 1935, and the pretext for the 1937 coup was that the paulista oligarchy wouldn't accept their imminent defeat in the 1938 election and they would cause another civil war like back in 1932, so democracy had to be suspended to prevent that
@@Gustavogukpa Omfg where are you learning Brazilian history from? hahahahahaha You're reading too many communist articles that's for sure....
@@ThomasAdsumus
Ladies and gentlemen, here we got your average brazilian ben shapiro
Have you looked at the role of Portugal in WWII? The Portuguese dictator, Salazar, met with Churchill a few days after Britain joined the war, and agreed that Portugal should remain neutral. (Remember Portugal and Britain have the oldest treaty that is still in force today). By so doing, Germany lacked a pretext for invading Portugal and gaining access to the islands of Madeira and Azores which are of course strategically important due to their position in the Atlantic. However, there was controversy as, in order to placate Germany, Portugal continued to sell arms to Germany (although I believe, Portugal tried to limit the sales just enough so as not to be seen to be helping the allies). Also, Portugal had signed a Treaty with Spain shortly before the outbreak of war. By not entering the war, Spain, an ally of the Axis could also not enter the war. If Spain had joined the war, Germany would have had an easy path to Portugal and the strategic islands. Later in the war, the Americans built an air base on the island of Madeira which the Germans would try to bomb.
There are of course other aspects to Portugal's WWII history such as the role of Lisbon in terms of spies and refugees (and the link to Casablanca of course). There is also the story of Aristides de Sousa Mendes who based in Bordeaux, defied Salazar by helping refugees by issuing visas and passports to Portugal. His war efforts has only just been recongnised by the Portuguese Government in 2020.
No doubt, if you were to explore this topic you would uncover more interesting facts.
My great grandfather was in the BEF.
Eu tô tão feliz que tem americano ligando pra nossa linda história brasileira , isso aí mano
Absolutely lovely, just a quick note on the only significant mistake i've seen in the pronounciation:
"Smoking snakes" is translated as "Cobras fumantes", as "fumarem" is the essentially "will smoke"; other than that, it is my understandi that it was a joke hitler made that motivated the cobra thing, but i'm not sure, however, BEF forces wore a patch with a smoking snake, which is cool (*edit, you've talked about this patch, sorry)
Any way, thank you for telling more of my country's history!
This is a pretty good video. My grandfather fought on WW2 as part of the FEB. It’s always great to see a video about the courage and the heroism of these brave soldiers.
One important fact to add, which is not in the video. Getúlio Vargas was actually a fascist. He actually aligned with Hitler for most of the WWII, but eventually aligned with the US because of the commercial relationship and investment plans, specially the US base in Natal, which would bring major $$ to Brazil.
Vargas was definitely not a fascist. He even destroy the Integralistas, the Brazilian fascist party.
@@Karifi just because he destroyed a fascist adversary, it doesn’t mean he wasn’t fascist. Stalin destroyed Trotsky and his followers, both communists.
@@Karifi He literally send hitler jews as prisioners, he was a fascist!
@@soares8802 one specific Jew, Olga Prestes, the communist revolutionary
@@Karifi if he wasnt a fascist, what is a fascist to you? lol
Proud to be Brazilian! Thank you for the video. It is very nice to show the english speakers worldwide how the Brazilian campaign in Italy happened 🇧🇷👊🏻💪🏻
You pronounced "Força Expedicionária Brasileira" quite well. Nice video, BTW.
My Grandfather, Cornélio Grossi, was a Sargeant during World War II, he fought in Monte Castello, 1944. Unfortunately he passed away when I was just 8. My father, his Son-in-law, speaks very fondly of him and I do have some great childhood memories with Grandpa. I barely had any knowledge about what happened on WW2 back when I was a just kid, and now there's so much I wanted to ask him...
I still have his medals framed on my living room.
Hi! My greetings from Brazil!
I understand that many foreigners do not know that Brazil fought in the Second World War (after all, many people in my country ignore this fact). I feel very proud when I see a video like this valuing the history of my country, because we also fight for freedom! Thank you for the great work and thank you all for the respectful comments about Brazil.
Olá! Meus cumprimentos aqui do Brasil!
Eu entendo que muitos estrangeiros não saibam que o Brasil lutou na Segunda guerra mundial, (afinal muita gente do meu país ignora esse fato). Eu me sinto muito orgulhoso quando vejo um vídeo igual esse valorizando a historia do meu país, pois nós também lutamos pela liberdade! Obrigado pelo grande trabalho e obrigado a todos pelos comentários respeitosos sobre o Brasil.
8:09 As brazilian from nature, i can say that was a nice attempt of calling the Brazilian Force, i preffer calling them as Praças/Praçinhas, plus, one my great-grandfathers allmost was send overseas to fight aganist the nazis but the war ended.
We were also the first to capture an entire german division.
Cobras Fumantes, eterna é sua vitória
Rise from the blood of your heroes
You, were the ones who refused to surrender
The three rather died than to flee
Know that your memory
Will be sung for a century
I live in Volta Redonda, a city built around the biggest steel mill in South America, that was basically Brazil's reward for its WWII contribution.
Rise from the blood of your heroes,
You, were the ones who refused to surrender
The three rather died than to flee
Know that your memory
Will be sung for a century!
Sabaton never fails to show up in the relevant comment sections.
@@cassianoneto1553 Just like the winged hussars, Sabaton always arrives.
although brazil comparatively didn't do much during the war, they are still underrated
"Brazil" man, more respect.
I would really love to see a similar episode on Norway.
My grandparents came from Germany to southern Brazil in 1922. In 1944 my father fought the Nazis for the Allies. Hard times.
Two of my relatives were in the Brazilian Army, my grandfather and great uncle. None of them actually saw combat, but my great uncle flew missions to Italy on a B25 to retrieve the bodies of dead Brazilian soldiers. Nice to see Brazil get some recognition
Great job, dude I just subscribed based on the research that you obviously did. I believe that too many people have forgotten history, way too many...
This is surprisingly detailed and well researched. Congratulations!!!
Wonderful work on somewhat forgotten history!
Fun fact: The "Toninha Battle" in the WW1, when a brazillian vessel saw manh black spots in the water assuming they where German U-Boats. They fired in their direction and, when they water turned red, what they have shot were Toninhas (Dolphins) xD
You mean German toninhas
Great Video!!?
It would be intresting to see some of those countries you mentioned in Italy( Rhodesia,NZ...)
I find this series on lesser know parts of World War Two is great would love to see more
Fun fact, Brazil declared war the nazi japan and italy at some point, but today Brazil has alot of influence from those same 3 countries, many Japanese, italians and germans came to Brazil after the war, Brazil is the second country with more Japanese ppl just behind Japan itself
Very, very, veryyyy interesting video.
Being Brazilian and never knew about half of this history blew my mind learning it in English language.
Thank you!
one correction:
1) Brazil didn't "fight" very much for independence. we, in fact, "bought" our independence. we take over a debt Portugal had with England and paid some more (boring money from... England).
We did fight. Fought for over a year. It wasn’t just money. Ask anyone from Bahia what they celebrate every July, 2.
@@FeScully that's why the "very much" in the phrase.
Great video and as a Brazilian I think your Portuguese is not bad, congrats! Brazil's participation was larger than one might imagine: i) the FEB brought down the german defense line in Italy; ii) german soldiers captured during the battle of the Atlantic remained arrested in Brazil's maindland; iii) German propaganda written in Portuguese were distributed and left in the battle field instigating the soldiers to leave; iv) a group of 3 soldiers refused to surrender to a german group and after being killed, the germans buried then and left honors for their bravery.
The cobra is gonna smoke is an expression that actually means... " now it's serious ". Loved the video!
Thanks for this video! Very good!
Great series, Hilbert. Thanks for all of your effort you put into it. What might be interesting, is a different perspective, such as "collaboration" forces: Dutch in the Waffen SS, Polish units in the Red Army, etc.
I've thought about that idea but from like the other perspective. Like Britain impressed American soldiers during the Napoleanic wars right because they said they were British subjects.
Well like the Nazi's were all into racial supperiority... well me being all Germanic/Celtic (ASNaC) I imagine I'd be considered racially pure... like what if someone like me in the American or British armies were captured and forced to fight with the SS or some shit against communists... (This must have happened right!?)
What would you do!?
Gostei do video, bem ilustrado e citou bem os acontecimentos históricos
Congrats man, you just got yourself a subscriber
i like this series, keep it up!
i had no idea that brazilians fought in italy
Well Getulio Vargas was "flirting" a lot with the axis, especially the nazis, but in the end, the merchants sinks were to much and the population claimed to declare war against the axis.
As always very informative.
With great pride I am the son of a former soldier of the glorious Sampaio Regiment. In Monte Castelo the SNAKE FUMOU !!
Congratulations for the video on behalf of the Brazilian soldiers who fought in Italy. Thank you very much.
I’d like to point out that the FEB/BEF was also honored with a large town square on São Paulo’s north side (Santana neighborhood), across from the air force’s field of mars (a major military airport) .I grew up across the street from the “Heroes of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force Square” .
And there are towns in italy which still celebrate their liberation by brazilian forces during ww2
Muito bom o vídeo! É legal ver canais de outros países falando sobre o Brasil. Somente uma pequena correção se me permite. O nome correto é Cobras Fumantes. O que está no vídeo é a parte do ditado "Quando cobras fumarem". Para nome o "fumarem" é transformado em adjetivo "fumantes" (Aqueles que fumam). E houveram outras participações brasileiras na Guerra, como as missões da Força Aérea que foram importantes inclusive ensinando técnicas de vôo para os Aliados, procure sobre o "Senta a Pua". Talvez também teria sido legal comentar que os Integralistas eram basicamente o partido fascista no Brasil da época do Vargas. Parabéns pelo vídeo! Abraços do Brasil!
Thank you and happy new year
Thank you very much Hilbert.
As a brazilian I gotta say that one of the downsides of Brazil taking part actively in the war on the US side, is that we had to abandon our former military uniforms of French inspiration to that of the United States instead. I think that was a very sad decision because the Brazilian army has been adopting a french aligned military doctrine since the end of the 19th century, which was ultimately strengthened right after WW1 when the brazilian government officially hired what was called the "French Military Mission" in 1919. Which was commemorated in 2019 with the showing of the old uniforms in the National day parade. However to this day, all the historical sections of military parades throughout the country display American uniforms like those worn by the BEF in Italy. Which makes sense, but again we should never had changed our old french uniforms for those american ones. Brazil should have went to the War using our original array.
And honestly I think we should make the change back today and get rid of those american looking ones for the old french ones.
Brazil 🇧🇷🥳🎊💕💕💕💕💕
This is too good. You got a new subscriber.
Great video. Thanks! 🙂
Fascinating video, it would be interesting to see a video on Saudi Arabias involvement during the Second World War.
"At this time"
May this video go viral and reveal the truth on Brazil's involvement in WW2. They had minor involvement in WW1 which is just as relevant in a foreign war.
The Seven Years War was actually the 1st World War.
@WITHOUT. 6.1M views it was a worldwide conflict. Do some research.. you're welcome 😊
Wdym?????
Nice video greetings from Brazil!!!
Very well explained...congratulations
Just a small correction:
Brazil didn't declare war on Japan in 1942, just Germany and Italy. They declared war on Japan on June 6, 1945 (as Japanese ships weren't a priority to them since they weren't in the Atlantic). But they still used the war as an excuse to treat the Japanese community poorly
Which is something that isn't mentioned here:
Brazil has the biggest population of Japanese people outside of Japan. Because of WWII, the influential Japanese community was treated quite harshly. They couldn't drive, they couldn't go to school, they couldn't use the radio, they couldn't speak their language, they couldn't live by the coast (had to relocate in 24 hours), thousands were arrested and expelled from the country because the gov thought they were spies. Even some who were simply having a picnic were arrested, all because they were Japanese. They didn't have internment camps like the US (there was a concentration camp in Tomé-Açu however) though the Brazilian ambassador to the US suggested it. And the situation for them in the years prior to WWII was already bad because of forced assimilation
Was the prejudice during the full war it just those few months at the end after formal decoration ?
You just forgot to mention about the Japanese gangs that murdered those Japaneses that believed that Japan lost the war. They caused a violent riot in the countryside. There's a movie about it called "Corações Sujos"
The government's promotion of whitening is why the Japanese were in Brazil in the first place.
Not only japanese had a great comunity in Brazil at the time, but also a great number of italians, germans, russians and every nation had sent imigrants to Brazil in the begining of XX century. There are some cities here in Brazil that still preserve today some european dialetcs that are extinct in theyr original nations.
The use, or the reference of flags and the languages from the axis contries was banished during the war, being the most famous case, the soccer team Palestra Itália, that had to change its name for Palmeiras and lost the red from it's colours to stay just with white and green.
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Expect nothing but bloody when your unit is seconded to Mark Clark.
I enjoyed watching this. Selva!
you did good on your portuguese, nice video with some nice insights about history
I'd like to see Mexico or Bulgaria next.
Muito bom!
This is one interesting video about this country. Swedish Heavy/Power Metal band Sabaton even has a song called Smoking Snakes based on that historical fact. Congrats on your thorough research.
Cool idea this is actually great
Your pronunciation is damn good my bro
Brasileiros agradecem
I love the video!
hi, i'm brazilian and here we really think we are despised by other countries, i'm happy to see that unidences state speak well of us
Can you Do a Video on the other Axis Members reaction of the Invasion of Poland
Will you do one about Portugal since they were not part of the Second World War but they were part of the first? Also since they had a fascist regime like the Spanish had. Would also be interesting to know their part in the Spanish Civil War.
They basically are an autonomous region of Spain.
True Portugal didn't fight BUT Lisbon became the "Capital" of espionage during WW2.
Cade meu ouro meno
I really liked your video. As a Brazilian I must say your research was pretty accurate.
Also, really dig your portuguese pronunciation! Keep up the good work.
Monte Castello was the hardest battle, but, Montese was the bloodiest. Until today, in April 15, people in Montese made a celebration in memory of Brazilian Expeditionary Force.