The strains of the Nazi endemic

The Nazi virus began to contaminate Brazilian life due to the weakened resistance of the Powers after the unleashing of the vector of fascism, Jair Bolsonaro. This weakness allowed the circulation of parasites that float in an infectious latrine, radiating the highly lethal diseases of the Third Reich. One of these was supported by a federal deputy, a participant in sectarian movements and a voter for the captain. The parliamentarian feverishly opined that Germany erred in criminalizing Nazism.

The absurdity endorsed the pronouncement of an ogre who dared to advocate for legal support to create a Nazi party in Brazil. Another anonymous individual, equally insignificant, was expelled from a TV station for reproducing the salute of Adolf Hitler, the greatest bloodthirsty figure in civilization. These are mutations strengthened by the most aggressive and original pathogens of ignorance, which began to be transmitted by Jair Bolsonaro, a morbid bastard of the Fourth Reich. In the midst of civilization, there are still fools disconnected from the most important human values.

The variants of Nazism found fertile ground in Bolsonarism. Trickering when there were more than 550 deaths from Covid-19, a smiling captain rolled out the red carpet for the direct transmitter of the swastika: an eternal scar of the Holocaust and the atrocity of the genocide of more than 6 million people, exterminated by famine, shootings, and gas chambers in concentration camps.

Embracing the congresswoman and her husband, Bolsonaro was exposed about the meeting he chose not to include in his official agenda: “An impressive meeting in Brazil: I would like to thank the Brazilian president for the friendly reception and I am impressed by his clear understanding of the problems in Europe and the political challenges of our time,” revealed German MP Beatrix Von Storch on social media, immune to secrecy.

Storch carries the viral load of Nazism and circulates within the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. She is the granddaughter of Johann Ludwig Schwerin von Krosigk, Adolf Hitler's finance minister for over 12 years. A war criminal, he was tried and convicted by the Nuremberg Tribunal. Like her grandfather, who was responsible for the confiscation of Jewish property, Vons Storch is xenophobic.

In March 2021, the party was placed under democratic and sanitary surveillance by German intelligence services. During her visit to Brazil, the congresswoman was also received by the Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Marcos Pontes, the astronaut who lives in a world of his own. The German parliamentarian also had meetings with congressmen Eduardo Bolsonaro, the president's son, and Bia Kicis, president of the Constitution and Justice Committee of the Chamber of Deputies. Hosts of authoritarianism, both are being investigated for anti-democratic infections and coup-mongering recidivism. The unbridled circulation of the Nazi wave in the Planalto Palace at the end of July 2021, however, was not unprecedented.

Anthropologist Adriana Dias researched and diagnosed another form of Nazi contamination. She detected, on at least three Brazilian neo-Nazi websites, a letter written by Jair Bolsonaro when he was a federal deputy. Published by the website “The Intercept” in July 2021, the information shows that the support from neo-Nazis was received positively by the Brazilian 'hauptmann' (leader). In the letter dated December 17, 2004, accompanied by a photo of Bolsonaro and a link to the website he used at the time, he thanks readers for their support: “Every response I receive from the communications becomes an incentive for my work. You are the reason for the existence of my mandate,” says the letter published on three neo-Nazi websites.

As warned by "The Intercept," there is no way to prove that the letter was written to the neo-Nazi website, but the researcher did not find the same message elsewhere. Bolsonaro also applauded the infestation of the Capitol by extremist groups. One of them wore T-shirts with references to the "Auschwitz camp," the most barbaric extermination network in World War II.

In 2016, while still a federal deputy, Jair Bolsonaro had more direct contact with the Nazi germ. He was photographed alongside Marco Antônio, a candidate for city councilor in Rio de Janeiro, known as the "Hitler lookalike." In the pose, Bolsonaro appears smiling next to the man dressed like the German dictator, who sported military pins on his jacket and wore the same mustache and haircut characteristic of Hitler.

In 2018, after Jair Bolsonaro's election to the presidency, the Twitter account of the German AfD parliamentary group reproduced a message from MP Petr Bystron congratulating the captain on his victory.

"Jair Bolsonaro is an outspoken conservative who has been working to combat leftist corruption and restore security and prosperity to his people," said the congressman from the same viral colony as Beatrix Von Storch. The bastards of the 'führer' yearn to plague the world by recycling their macabre illnesses.

Beyond the interactions and elegies to Hitler, the larvae of the Third Reich permeate Bolsonarism: hostility towards the press, blaming communists for failures, inciting ignorant mythomania, adopting lies as a method, propagating falsehoods, worshipping death, arming the population, militarizing civil public offices, and disseminating hatred against all minorities, adversaries, thinkers, writers, and academia. In these fascist outbursts, these experiments interact with other drugs extracted from Goebbels' test tubes, such as anti-intellectualism, hatred of freedoms, reiteration of the concepts of hierarchy, victimization, patriotic appeals, and the dismantling of the State.

The hijacking of the concepts of the rule of law is one of the most reckless tactics for democracy. What the captain says, thinks, and does has the repugnant DNA of Nazi tendencies. Since 2020, he has been harboring his own Kristallnacht. A latency proven on several occasions, sometimes verbally, sometimes by his sons, sometimes by allies, and attempted by his diabolical mentor, Donald Trump, after being expelled by the American electorate.

In repeated infectious attacks, the captain has virulently invested in weakening institutions, crippling democracy, undermining the Electoral Court, and conspiring against the free exercise of the Powers. His delusions to subjugate the Supreme Federal Court (STF), as the Third Reich did with the German judiciary, are pathological. Since May 2020, when he began advocating a coup in the streets, Bolsonaro has targeted the STF, filling vacancies with uncritical and submissive allies. He has lost every time in his authoritarian displays there, largely unanimously. In the demonstrations that Bolsonaro attended or called for, banners demanded the closure of Congress and the Supreme Court.

When Alexandre Ramagem was stopped by the Federal Police, there were many boasts. After the search and seizure against allies, he regurgitated: "It's over, damn it." After the breach of confidentiality of his friends, he threatened again: "The time is coming for everything to be put in its proper place." Brazilian justice did not cower. The capture of the German judiciary occurred after Carl Schmitt's anomaly prevailed. According to it, the guardian of the Weimar Constitution was the president of the Reich, legitimized by the popular will. The weakened judiciary was decisive in allowing Hitler to trample on humanity.

Other Nazi incubations are symptomatic. The slogan "Brazil above all, God above everyone" recycled Hitler's marketing, associating the concept of homeland with the sacredness of the Providence of the leader who aspires to perpetuate himself in power by manipulating the name of God. Hitler also presented himself as an entity, sent to save the people from great misery. "Deutschland über alles" (Germany above all) was the verse of the anthem sung by the Nazis. Besides insanity, other attributes of the captain equate him to the German corporal: mediocrity, explosive ego, warmongering, neuroses, intolerance, manipulation, and conspiratorial paranoia.

Bolsonaro has reproduced all these harmful behaviors since his rise to power. He also employs other recipes from the Third Reich. Sometimes he tries to capture intelligence agencies, such as ABIN (Brazilian Intelligence Agency), the Federal Police, and sectors of the military; sometimes he incites confrontation; sometimes he resurrects bravado. He tried to financially suffocate newspapers and threatens freedom of the press; it's a prevalent disease: "Beatings," "Go to hell," "Shut up," and other authoritarian pronouncements. "The right thing to do is to take Globo, Folha de S. Paulo, Estadão, Antagonista out of circulation—I won't do that because I'm a democrat—take Globo, Folha de S. Paulo, Estadão, Antagonista out of circulation; they are factories of fake news," threatened the false democrat, targeting his second greatest enemy, the press and, consequently, the truth.

Segregation is another feverish manifestation of the Nazis. “What happens in the classroom: you have a very good boy, you can put him in the classroom with the best. You have a very slow boy, you do the same thing. People think that by putting everything together, it will work. It won't work. The tendency is for everyone to follow in the footsteps of the one with the least intelligence. It levels down. That's the spirit that exists in Brazil,” Bolsonaro pontificated. Hitler and his murderers deported and imprisoned people with disabilities, Jews, gays, communists, and dissidents in concentration camps. Eugenics was the germ of Nazi terror.

Another example is the Police State, which gave birth to Bolsonaro through the political ambush of Lava Jato. The Police State was Hitler's most terrifying expression, who created and then strengthened paramilitary groups as he concentrated power. The Gestapo, the SS, and the SA were expanded and, in the end, unified for political purposes. The Gestapo, the secret and partisan police, was the most feared and a central piece of terror. The Nuremberg trials declared the Gestapo a criminal organization. Two of its leaders (Heinrich Himmler and Hermann Göring) committed suicide. Here, Bolsonaro and his senator son have already defended legalizing militias.

The rate of Nazis in the government is endemic. The Presidential Communications Secretariat, when headed by Fábio Wajngarten, produced an advertisement in May 2020, at the height of the pandemic, sabotaging social isolation. It was shared by the captain and, in a certain passage, states: "Work, unity and truth will set us free." The grammatical error was later corrected, but the Nazi contamination, immortalized at the entrance to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland ("Arbeit macht frei" – work sets you free), is a permanent consequence.

Former Foreign Minister Ernesto Araújo, an isolationist and subservient to the US, was also forced to retract his comparison of social isolation to concentration camps. He also caused unease by mentioning the acronym SPQR in the Senate, usurped by neo-fascist movements. Araújo also carries another Nazi variant. His father, Henrique Fonseca de Araújo, was Attorney General in the government of Ernesto Geisel, and issued opinions against the extradition of the Nazi Gustav Franz Wagner. Wagner, second-in-command of the Sobibor concentration camp (Poland), was responsible for 250 deaths between 1942 and 1943. He was discovered in Brazil in 1978 by the famous Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal. Ernesto's father, revealed the newspaper "Folha de São Paulo," refused four extradition requests: from Poland, Austria, Germany, and Israel.

The international advisor to the Presidency of the Republic, Felipe Martins, was caught in March 2021 reproducing a gesture during the testimony of the then Foreign Minister, Ernesto Araújo, to the Federal Senate, regarding the difficulties in acquiring vaccines against Covid-19. The hand gesture is a white supremacist symbol. The advisor claimed he was adjusting his lapel and denied eugenics, an excrescence that resulted in the final solution. Martins remained in his position, and this says a lot about the government, its parasites, and its unhealthy therapies. The same gesture was reproduced by a Bolsonaro supporter in front of the Alvorada Palace. The captain was kind: "I know it's a nice gesture, but it doesn't look good for me."

In January 2020, to the sound of Richard Wagner (Hitler's favorite composer), Bolsonaro's then Secretary of Culture, Roberto Alvim, made a positive statement about Nazism. He plagiarized excerpts from a speech by Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels: "Brazilian art of the next decade will be heroic and national. It will be endowed with a great capacity for emotional involvement and will be equally imperative, since it is deeply linked to the urgent aspirations of our people, or else it will be nothing," Alvim stated. Goebbels had said: "German art of the next decade will be heroic, it will be fiercely romantic, it will be devoid of sentimentality and objective, it will be national with great pathos and will be at the same time imperative and binding – or it will be nothing," Goebbels said in a speech. Alvim's speech recalled the great book burning in 1933 in Germany, when Hitler was chancellor and preached cultural cleansing.

Hitler, Goebbels, Himmler, Göring, and other villains proliferate in nations in deep crisis, with high unemployment, high inflation, famine, violence, recession, and legal, political, and institutional instability. This was the environment found in the Weimar Republic, an ideal laboratory for spreading a lethal virus and enthroning a genocidal figure, Adolf Hitler. Regardless of any historical perspective, the right-wing epidemic around the world resorts to the same incubations to suffocate democracy. The experiment was repeated in Brazil, but it is being overcome. The young Brazilian democracy resisted the viral attack of authoritarian strains aimed at atrophying institutions. It caught a cold, became feverish, but proved immune to external infectious agents and avoided a Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry.

The Democratic Rule of Law has activated its antibodies and vaccines to neutralize harassment and purge the transmitter of tyrannical diseases. Immunizations against absolutist illnesses protect democracy and must be applied in massive campaigns to prevent irreversible septicemia. With severe shortness of breath, Bolsonaro's mandate has entered its countdown. Democratic guidelines have kept him asymptomatic during the epidemiological outbreak, but recommend an eternal quarantine for him and his radical intensivists. The most effective and prolonged therapy against new, more aggressive mutations, however, lies in the hands of the voter: the vote. Nazism does not belong to politics, but to the police.