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fall or emphasizing the award winning offer is available worldwide. every language level, learning gym and has been since the 200 years of german migration to present. since it came to a young phone, there was nothing in search of a better life. the kid will go now, this is elder rado. this will be and i knew him, but there are stories of dreams and suffering elements with very painful stories because of all the mass because we've experienced opposite the whole i know making that i'm and i'm and i'm from southern brazil and i was a journalist in germany origin,
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which is by my side, i want to emigrate it from. you know, i want to take you want to john what was finding a 200 years of german immigration in brazil. dialing moyer because you have family in brazil and germany. they had no contacts for almost a century. it wasn't until many years off to my grandmother's death. when was it? was that and that's when i finally met my mother's close relative so much. my family history is one of migrations. that's what we'll be exploring on our journey . the hopes my heart was pounding and how people's minds the shaped my history. a thoughts with progress was seen as tied to european eyes, agents, not just of customs, and traditions of the population itself. the
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filming in brazil in april 2024. we had no way of knowing that a once in a century, catastrophe was about to hit my home state or for your grand to do so. places i had visited with the camera. truth would be so much didn't stop, launch is just days later, people would lose that homes. and sometimes even that lives the thought journey begins before best modem, 1000 kilometers. the north south polo is in the mega city melting pot and the cultural and economic call to a brazil attempt to move in 12000000 people. over the centuries, people have come here from complex countries. some came voluntarily from europe or asia. others would come to consent to brazil as slaves. around 1900, the city experienced a huge influx of immigrants,
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new come as drove industrialization and up and nice ation. the focus of the countries immigration museum located on an historically significant round red line . yet is that the main check right here on this platform is where trains from the point of santos arrived with hiring immigrant. that sort of deals immigrants but i got from 1887 until the 19 seventy's. this was brazil's largest home immigrants, people's luggage would be disinfected. here you arrivals would be registered and given medical checks, the listed under nickels for the stove was built a comfortably house, 2 to 3000 people from the by the end of the 19th century. it was accommodating between 8010000 people on a given day, possibly think there was a lot of tension on the part of the immigrants, the workers, and also the native people. what are the, what is the, there was a fear of epidemics and are foreigners to get to the me. so this place reminds us
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of the history of immigration as a whole. and we bought all the associated hope and suffering. and i still told them that i thought of this building contains all those stories i've made. and then we thought of children once, but almost no for the yep. l a co more the for the thought of the getting multiple fires broke out in the hospital caused by the immigrants on authorized cooking. the names of 12000 democrats are in great museums. but one name i can find is that of my grandmother who arrived here in 1925. the 1000 kilometers south is the town of capital farm in nova, i'm bogo in the state of rio crunch. i do so this is where i grew up with my parents live. my grandma either lived here for almost 13 years until her tax in 1997. the family lost contact with my grandma siblings soft
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to the 2nd well all the 1980s. my father attempted to track down our relatives in germany, unsuccessfully the. in portugal, i wrote a letter in portugal, most of which my mother translated into german. we sent it to fishback to the town where my mother will replace my home at 3 months later, we got a reply. for 2 of my mothers sisters had already died. i do have their mo, helped you in the policy. her brother had died in the war and there was no information about the 3rd time. you also, i'd be more than when i gave them, you know, so all contacts had been lost. the disappeared go home says here long tail mice comes off. the in fact the nice isn't grand nice is my grandma ita live in this small town and the
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german state of the section 8. and one thing we have in common with offers 1000000000 family is the food the fact that we found each other in 2021 is nothing short of a miracle. i'd finished studying in germany. and in order to apply for citizenship, i'd requested documents from the old phone, which is in my grandmas best place. just so happened that the same official was also contacted by my grandmas german nice who was making a family tree. well yes, can i how it was handing i finally found someone related to on the ita to you know, that's good for decades. my grandma eda was a gap in the family story. she had an upgrade to to brazil with foster parents in 1925 while have full biological siblings. stayed with the father in germany. she never sold them again at em gods and never got to meet her aunt. now and god has
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met me eat as grandson. she suddenly has a present in, in the family. most of my grandmother was born in this small town in north and germany. she was baptized in this church. but why couldn't she stay with a father? i had a siblings the one of us has been what happens with the family is alive as my grandma are adopted. not sending the funds from 9 to 120 to 1925 the odd years. you cannot make lee, especially here in the country side. it wasn't easy to raise children without some of the gland onto lead us methods. dodge, getting fast to toby's tom's on the ground was left alone with 5 children. so he left this weekend in the care of the helps oak family for the for me, they had for the game for 5 days nights that they went to present was even those given me once in 1925 to have folks. and the great, it's
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a brazil with initial each item on the ship, pulled the union off of and thanks to the local heritage society, we're able to get a sense of the town of fish back in the 19 twenty's. the type of family lived in this house at that time, a few years off to germany, had lost the fast one more. many people left that homeland in this region, 12 and a quarter of the population decided to seek better lives in the new won't stop was often buying a house and once continental europeans ologist emigration point with a huge lead by another emigrating to brazil from same awesome yeah, he was less than 5 years old and the title of it as you get more than 7200000 people bought it ships to start new lives on the other side at the well for either and her new family. the journey took them via south palo to poto,
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allegra in the state of rio grande are due to the, at the german immigration center stories like that to my grandmother. all collected and brought to life between 19201930, almost 75000 germans emigrated to present the the mice. and you also the most people left for economic reasons and the economic crisis. hitler 1923 are ready to fund one. you're, the middle class has lost their wealth and many young people. so no hope for the weimar republic in the volume of apple leaks. and there were lots of families of farmers who wanted to continue working in agriculture. when seen a meant for them south america was a good and bad type of work to happen in the united states. no longer offered
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freelance. in fact, the land was extremely expensive there. but in brazil that opportunity still existed and cause these things are getting garbage. steven lucas cut eda and foster parents travel for over a month. that's how long it took to cross the atlantic. and those things the copying they slipped in in 1925 would look something like this. relatively comfortable. it's a far cry from the sailing congo ships that have taken the 1st german colonists to brazil a 100 years out. and then people would be crammed together for several months and see of a lack of wind. the food supplies running out, and heaven forbid an outbreak of disease attach would simply be thrown overboard. the in 1824. these 1st and the grins traveled 11000 kilometers to a completely new and unknown. well,
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was there an 18 o 8. the portuguese royal family had also landed the fleeing napoleon and his army, and the country had been independent since 18. 22 ruled by don't petro the 1st and his wife, leo, po, dina from austria to come to bags. response the populated south of the country and defended against naples, uruguay, and argentina. brazil, recruited foreign colonists was much of a skill level and read that in brazil opened it sounds to get a pin migration that was not the end of slavery was assigned to those ice public. i well, cuz we needed on the golf the plantation of parts on it by that. what examples of the fest for sale was among the lost countries to advantage slavery until 1888 slight africans, and that the sentence works on the countries plantations. the
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upcoming describe a light, so could you the abolition of slavery and brazil dragged on for several decades. it was generally accepted that it was an obsolete model that slavery could no longer be maintained in the long term height. and it was becoming increasingly difficult to get new slaves because of the british blockade of the slave trade. recada that raised the question for them of where to find new workers who were cheap and obedient. because one way always 50. i believe what skeptic was, why my wife's clifton says the empire of brazil actively recruited to your opinions, enticing them with free passage and free farming land and local taxes. by 1831 he left himself in german speaking emigrants had a right to brazil the, the 19th century governments was deeply racist. so keeping lines of formerly enslaved people of african origin was on the think of the you know, let me do the after each section, just get us or to say her opinion,
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immigration policies cemented the idea. then 3 labor was performed by white workers by a buddhist, but that's the legacy. it has the day in the history of brazilian society, the u. s. a. and there's a complex race to stereotype that kind of mentally associates being black in this country with slavery alone, and able to look at as you want. the major is covered. but in fact, these in slaved men and women were the most important people in the development of the sales specialist towards the method of that. but as when slavery was abolished in 1898. for many insights, people were systematically excluded by the whitening of no plan for integrating them into society. they began to free lives as a 2nd class citizens in the grubbing slumps of the big cities. even today, millions of afro brazilians live in precarious circumstances. the under represented
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in politics, business, science and culture. this too is a consequence of 19th century immigration policy. and it's aimed to quote, modernize and quote, the country. for truth, what advice? because it's an oil piece of progress we've seen as tied to european i zation of customs and traditions as part of the population itself about this issue, a racist ideas played a crucial role. and the idea was a so called a white lighting of the population in a brazil that was made up of very different communities. according to the thinking of the time this was seen as negative and a hindrance to development. you got to you for the d and picking on him. and that's why they wanted europeans and not just the, any european level, but especially central europeans. you guys, they were seen as virtuous part working on ambitions and obedient. when that made them desirable subjects, these guns with one of the focal points was the german state somehow because it was
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known, there were lots of with more people there which and to them. and then there was pressure to emigrate and lloyd the feeling though i did the often to come over and then at the beginning of the 19th century, the french and brenda pony and had time to europe. it's about 5 till 12. and he was rife, in many regions, and full hobbies 70. my things was the same time the population was growing, which increased boot shortages and unemployment. one example is conflict. and once now the german states of ryan and polite tonight, z ma'am, is a small town that still has close ties to something for sale. 200 years ago. the 1st column is set out from this area to be actively recruited by the presenting government. the last bottom conclusions on sale by one ocean only they were skilled farmers and also own their own houses. oh,
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the lloyd people had to sell their houses to afford to emigrate and so they weren't the poorest of the poor. the money had to come from somewhere and that's good. most young boy copeland, you could say they were socially immobile, even the they felt they'd be better off somewhere else as a then were willing to make a new start. and then of course, there were also some very poor people by the standards of the time about the communities were often have when those people emigrated and they wanted to solve social problems using integration. so to all the popular mod, eclipse and dish was, there are lots of examples of people don't like to talk about it, who is and they'll give to you the bodies really bit nice. gunpoint bikers poll today like many places in germany. the town of simon has itself become home to immigrants in search of a fence along the back in 1820 phone and people have huntsville cope to find that that's
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a life in selling their poto and southern brazil, the vin feather h. as in men room and as a father, scott, it's one of them is like this monument was erected in 1924 on the 39 1st german immigrants. she got all arrived on july the 25th 1824 in sonya poto in the state of rio. cassandra do so that's on the bank. so 3 of the cmos as well, some of them are so you'll hear the seems you think the longer cap it off the show, they all have to, we came here to film the area was have find mass in flooding was in the history of rio grande ja to devastate is only a photo. a city of 200000 inhabitants in the cradle of german immigration. the
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when we visited at the beginning of april, the museum was still intact. morning. welcome to the museum. takes us back to the 1824. on july, the 25th 8 families and the few single man arrived here. towards the end of the year, the number rose to $126.00. they were farmers, craft. people and soldiers came to cultivate the land and secured the borders. this is what they brought us in some little hills yours. you know, by today's standards. it's a big trunks into cloth and put in 8124. it was the entire family, their whole life was a near latino kid. as you might have been to probably the day is that the the museum has collected 10000 objects and thousands of documents, sports and music equipment, especially important to the germans. the immigrants also brought something else
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with them to brazil that protestant religious think the, this is the most important exhibit genteel are so can you get shows that they didn't just have practical things with them, but i took a look over it after all, dismissal was the most crucial thing in terms of survival. i could see the this is a bible from the 1765 and they seem to provide itself with sage, from the recent fonts for the museum was badly hit, centuries of immigration, history said matched even 200 years ago. founding a colony riots on the river proved to be a bad idea or see more cycle, you know, he, you know, the travelers who passed through reported to the provincial government that they've chosen location that couldn't have been worse. yeah. zillow valley disappeared, 3 times the river flooded to view, the town would be under water stock for all 3 co trespass has written several books
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about the german immigrants and that decisive influence on something for sale. the small farm is growing crops and raising livestock. they were the pioneers of family farming, which still today supply 70 percent of brazil's food. it was a hard line, especially for women. the we're going to give the skin conditional swap pocketing out of everyone who left their homeland and emigrated to some of the women the suffered the most and invited scott, as dad is keen, there are several letters for women who really struggle because of domestic problems. i mean, that is i'm gonna have to think of so many were pregnant when they had a great at home graphic that they had to look under 516 so many times as many as 10 children. we have cubicles for me to so hopefully that'll error operator won't at all in mind. these are families from a region that was left extremely poor following the napoleonic wars defense. again, this was the top chance of which allowed the people were left disabled traumatized because the women were the spying american family,
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including children. this had disagree babbling sound. they were absolute hero. i hear mention might or you know, whether in the field. so the fine transit time to overestimate the role of women playing in the economic bryce of the region, which today is one of the most developed in order to present the architectural legacy of german immigration can be seen in many small towns in rio rancho. do so the german traditions have survived the annual church fis account as individual dialect of homes look to these days. old recipients come together to set up rights. you can also taste the german cultural heritage like in the cafe colonial follow sy. in morrow going to the and we think it that's, that's funny. it reminds me of my childhood most. and then there's some of the
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things here that i liked. the sausage. look for that here. the apple strudel through the fried pastry, the kid watch. they'll come a sausage and the other. who could ask for anything along with like, you know, somebody's not the next stop on out. johnny is palmetto g in the state of santa category, not in the 18 sixty's germans from palmer rainy i sampled in this sump tropical region. in total, about $300000.00 germans found a new home in brazil, the som. around palmetto. g still live almost the same lives that ancestors did. running family farms instead of laundry states and mona cultures the among other things to see that families grow palm trees on meeting hung at the beginning. the problems really saved people we sent in. they came here to the
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jungle, how there was nothing on the phone. com, but 1st they survived by hunting animals fishing in from fruits and palm hearts. tom had the palms and as for the building, the leaves for sleeping on it will be on us for that. the on help side you see as of the 21st century bombing alone wouldn't be enough to support them. another important income source of the tourist to come here to get an impression of what life was like for the 1st german immigrants the for 1000 minus the sheets the degrees maybe later. so my story to the tour else is about to be i think i tell them how we live, where we came from and how things have changed in the yeah, almost. and if the children can make money from tourism and then it's sustainable
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housing. yeah. and then the authority is was nice without the they will even move to the big city or somewhere i go to a stipend or the so i but he's think as a vid shot. but i think the way we're using tourism means that we can carry on. that's the see is women. 2 reasons why they get into mold in 90 percent of commodity residents are of german descent. german culture and language are important to you. the german is a compulsory subject to this bi lingual school, the hello, the michelle medical center. i'm really surprised by that curiosity about how many efforts and how nicely they can speak a language that i know them other tongue drama. you know,
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well my dad lives and we just isn't the tradition of schooling, bro, find a german immigrants continues to have an impact. literacy rates and the region, se centrals are among the highest in the country with customer support going to the previous to the education was very important to the german government. wherever the colony was established, they built 2 things that were fundamental to their way of life. coming back to that church and the school categories, guys called very often the government didn't even in promises including when it came to providing an education system for the immigrant. so those are colonies, had a self funded caldwell mechanics. you have a blessed record. that's why for a long time, so many of them kept german is their 1st language, not fortunately. you know for to get the why my brazilian family no longer speaks german, what the nazis have to do with it. and what consequences did german immigration
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have for the indigenous peoples? whole this and more, next time. 2 of our journey through 200 years of german brazilian history, the
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