Brazil's culture secretary Roberto Alvim has resigned over a speech in which he appeared to quote Adolf Hitler's propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels.
Brazil's culture secretary Roberto Alvim resigned on Friday over a speech in which he appeared to quote Adolf Hitler's propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.
"It will be endowed with a great capacity for emotional involvement and will also be imperative, because it will be profoundly linked to the urgent aspirations of our people, or it will be nothing," he said, speaking in Portuguese.The wording was similar to phrases attributed to Goebbels in a biography written by German holocaust expert Peter Longerich and published originally in German in 2010.
"Given the huge discomfort caused by this unfortunate episode, I presented my immediate resignation," Mr Alvim wrote on Facebook.'There was a coincidence' "The whole speech is based on a nationalist ideal for Brazilian art and there was a coincidence with one phrase from a speech by Goebbels... I didn't quote him and I never would," he said."The phrase, in itself, is perfect: heroism and the people's aspirations is what we want to see in national art."
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