was nothing in search of a better life. i can well go now this is elder otto. this will be 9 years old. but there are stories of dreams and suffering elements of very painful stories because of all the mass because we've experienced oxygen. the whole i know making that i'm and i'm from southern brazil and i was a journalist in germany which is by my side i want to emigrate it from you. okay. do i want to take you want to johnny will spanish 200 years of german immigrations . they in brazil dialing moyer, who because you it's i have family in brazil and germany. i had no contacts for almost a century. it wasn't until many years off to my grandmother's death was it was so

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. for tooth progress was seen is tied to european nice agent. not just of customs and traditions. yeah. but of the population itself. the filming in brazil in april 2024. we had no way of knowing that once in a century, catastrophe was about to hit my home state over your ground. to do so. places i had visited with the camera crews were piece of must in salt, water is just days later, people would lose that homes and sometimes even that lives the spots out joanie

begins before best modem, 1000 kilometers. the north south polo is in a mega city melting pot and the cultural and economic call to brazil. it's home to more than 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, new come as drove industrialization and up in ice ation. the focus of the countries immigration museum located on a historically significant railroad line. yet is that the main check right here on this platform is where the trains from the panels. so santos arrived retiring immigrant. that sort of sales immigrants, but i come from 1897 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 productive on still was billed to 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 me. so this place reminds us of the history of immigration as a whole. and we thought all the associated copeland suffering need us to pull it on it. 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 on the museums names,

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 30 years until her tax in 1997. the family lost contact with my grandma siblings soft to the 2nd. well, the 1980s my father attempted to track down our relatives in germany, unsuccessfully the import. again, 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 3 months later we got a reply for 2 of my mothers, sisters had already died. i was there, mo,

helped you in front of your brother had died in the war and there was no information about the 3rd. so i can know what else i'd be more than when i gave them you know, so all contacts had been lost. i will just sit there go home, said 0 long tail mice comes off the in fact the nice isn't grand nice of my grandma ita live in this small town and the german state of noah saxony. one thing we have in common with offers 1000000 family is the food by 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 store. it 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 that's how it was the handling. i finally found someone related to on the ita to you know, that's too good for decades. my grandma eda was a gap in the family story. she had an a great to to brazil with foster parents in 1925 while have full biological siblings. stayed with that father in germany. she never sold them again at em gods and never got to meet her aunt. now and god has met me eat his grandson. she suddenly has a present in, in the family. most of my grandmother was born in this small town in northern germany. she was baptized in this church. but why couldn't she stay with a father and a siblings? the one of us has been what happened to the family is alive as my

grandma are adult and not something that's fun. sick from 9 to 120 to 1925 the odd years. you cannot make me, especially here in the country side. it wasn't easy to raise children without some of the facts and auntie lead us methodology is getting best to toby's tom's on the ground. tom was left alone with 5 children, so he left this was due to the care of the have folk family from the, from the they had all the game. but these nights that they went to present was even those given, you know, once and 1925, the have folks emigrated to brazil was initial effective. she 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 1st world war. many people left at home, not in this region more than a quarter of the population decided to seek bench

a lives in the new won't stop was often blame a happened once continental europeans ologist emigration point with a huge lead by another emigrating to brazil from same awesome, yeah, she was less than 5 years old and the time to put it as you get more than 7200000 people bought it ships to start new lives on the other side at the well for e to into a new family, the journey took them via south town on to poto allegra in the state of rio grandeur due to the at the german immigration center. stories like that to my grandmother are collected and brought to life between 19201930, almost 75000 germans emigrated to brazil. the,

the mice and you're also the most people left for economic reasons and the economic crisis. hitler 1923. so that is a fun one. you know, the middle class has lost their wealth and many young people. so no hope for the weimar republic. uh, in the volume of apple leaks, and there were lots of families of farmers who wanted to continue working in agriculture when seen them and for them south america is a good bad type of what can happen in the united states no longer offered freelance . in fact, the land was extremely expensive there, but in brazil that opportunity still existed. and because even the even got the season, lucas cut ada and foster parents travel from 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 of the end. then people would be crammed together for several months, and the sea of a lack of wind, the food supplies running out. heaven forbid an outbreak of disease attach would simply be thrown overboard. the in 1824. these 1st emigrants travelled 11000 kilometers to a completely new and unknown well. was there? in 19 o 8, the portuguese royal family had also landed the fleeting napoleon and his army the country had been independent since 18. 22 will. 5, don't petro the 1st and his wife leopold deena from austria to come to bags. response the prompt related south of the country and defend data against naples, uruguay, and dodge and tina, brazil,

recruited foreign colonists. the ones is much of a skill level one. we live in brazil opened to us. um, did you ever been migration? yes, that was not the end of slavery was assigned to those. i stopped like i was when he did on his i'll keep dante show off guard sounded by the f. what is in the fridge for sale was among the last countries to advantage slavery until 18. 88 saved africans, and the defendants worked on the country's con patients the up, something just grab a light, so can see the end. the lucian 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. 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 of what success to happen is i would have to go as well. my wife's clifton says the empire of brazil actively recruited to your opinions,

enticing them with free passage and free finding the end and local taxes by 18. 31 left themselves in german speaking immigrants had a right to brazil the, the 19th century governments was deeply racist. so keeping lands formerly in slave to people of african origin was on the think of it. don't you know, let me do the up each section just get us or to stay in europe and immigration policy cemented the idea that free labor was performed by white workers. that's the legacy it has. the state in the history of brazilian society is u. s. a, and there's a complex race of stereotype that's going to mentally associates being black in this country with slavery alone, a negative look at as you, when you go to the main just but in fact, these in slaved men and women with the most import,

the people in the development of the sales specialist, the as when slavery was abolished in 1898, formerly in slaves, people were systematically excluded by the white too late as no plan for integrating them into society. they began to free lives as a 2nd class citizens in the grubbing slums of the big cities. even today, millions of afro resilience live in preparing circumstances. the under represented in politics, business science and culture. this too is a consequence of 19th century immigration policy. and it's aimed to quote, modernize, unquote, the country flux with voted life because it's an oil piece of progress we've seen as tied to european eyes ation or lots of customs. and traditions of the population itself about this issue, racist ideas played a crucial role. and when the idea was a so called a white lining 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 them to be picking on him. and that's why they wanted europeans and not just the, any european level, but especially central europeans and you guys, they were seen as virtuous, hard working ambition and obedient. when that made them desirable subjects, these guns, when one of the focal point was the german state. because it was known, there were lots of with more people there which in to them. and then there was pressure to emigrate and lloyd, the funeral identity often to come home. a savannah at the beginning of the 19th century, the french and brenda pony and had time to europe into a thoughtful pond. but he was rife in many regions, and full hobbies, and 79th things west of the same time the population was growing, which increased food shortages and unemployment. the one

example is conflict in watts. now the german states of rhineland plat tonight, the man 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 of to being active, be recruited by the present and government. the bottom concludes that sale by what mostly they were skilled farmers are also own their own houses. oh, 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 was the way i called them. you could say they were social immobile, even the they felt they'd be better off somewhere else as a the more 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 a windows, people have been rated and they wanted to solve social problems using immigration

the so to all the popular logic let's 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 to buy a really good, nice gun put back to school today, like many places in germany. the town of simon has itself become home to immigrants in search of offensive line the back in 1824. the people of huntsville cope to find that that's a life in selling the poto and southern brazil. the then further it says in men room and the father side, it's more demand like this monument was directed in 1924 on the 39 1st german immigrants and she got all arrived on july the 25th 1824. it's only a poto in the state of rio grande producer that's on the bank. so 3 of those cmos

is, and i'm also the result the seems to take a longer camp at us. the shows me off to we came here to film the area was huge. find massive flooding the west in the history of rio grande ya to devastate it's only a photo. a city of 200000 inhabitants in the cradle of german immigration. the 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 a few single man arrived to towards the end of the year. the number rose to 126. they were farmers, craft people,

and soldiers that came to cultivate the land and secured the borders. this is what they brought to you by some little is yours. you know, by today's standards. it's a big trunk quad with an 8124. it was the entire family, their whole life was a near latino kid. as you might have been to probably the name is that the the museum has collected 10000 don't jacks. and thousands of documents, sports and music equipment, especially important to the germans. the immigrants also brought something else with them to brazil, that protestant religion in philadelphia, and whether this is the most important exhibit, gentler. 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 have to see the this is a bible from the 1765. since i seem to divided itself with sage, from the recent slots, but the museum was badly hit,

centuries of immigration histories submerge even 200 years ago. founding a colony right on the river proved to be a bad idea. the more cycle, you know here. yes, i'm of the travelers who passed through reported to the provincial government that the chosen location couldn't have been worse. it yeah. several things that total guidelines disappeared every time the river flooded to view, the town would be under water stock. for all 3 co trespass has written several books about the german immigrants and 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 you the skin conditional swap pocketing out of everyone who left their homeland and emigrated to. so the women suffered the most and invited scott,

the dad is keen. there are several letters for women who really struggle because of domestic problems. i mean, that is something that think of so many were pregnant when they emigrate at home because they had to look under 516 sometimes as many as 10 children need it. so hopefully that will arrow, but i don't want at all in mind, these are families from a region that was left extremely poor following the napoleonic wars. if as you get, this was true for them which allowed the people were left disabled them traumatized because the women were the spine of every family, including the children to disagree, bab and shouting. they were absolutely really here, major might or you know, whether in the field. so the factories. it's hard 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,

the german traditions have survived the annual church fis or camps as individual dialect of homes look to these days old recipients come together to sign a price. you can also taste the gem and cultural heritage like in the cafe colonial follow sy. in morrow going to the and we think that's funny. it reminds me of my child tables. and then there's some of the things here that i need to do with the like the sausage. look for that here. yeah. going straight to the fried pastry, the chaos they all come, a sausage in the area 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 catalina, in the 18 sixty's germans from palmer rainier, settled in this some tropical region. in total, about $300000.00 germans found

a new home in brazil the some around palmetto. g still live almost the same lives man, ancestors that running family farms instead of laundry states. and mona cultures the among other things to see that families grow, palm trees, meeting hung at the beginning, the problems really saved people we sent and they came out here to the jungle. how there was nothing on the phone. com at 1st. they survived by hunting animals fishing in and from fruit and tom hart's tom had the palms and use for the building . the leaves for sleeping on it will be yes for that. the on help. sadly. see as the within the 21st century bombing alone wouldn't be enough to support them. another

important income source of the taurus to come here to get an impression of what life was like. for the 1st german immigrants, the people 1000 minor, the shifted duties. maybe later so my story to the tour at all is about to be i think i tell them how we live, where we came from and how things have changed. and the yeah, home is i'm just the children can make money from tourism and then it sustainable housing. yeah. so then that the reason was nice without the they will leave and move to the big city or somewhere i go to a stipend or the so i but he's thing is all vid shot. but i think the way we're using tourism means that we can carry on. that's the see is i'm going to the, it was 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 bilingual school, the mission of the central, cuz i'm really impressed by that curiosity about how many efforts and how nicely they can speak a language that i know that i'm other tongue jerome. uh, you know, well my dad lives in reedsville isn't the tradition of schooling, bro, find a german immigrants continues to have an impact. literacy rates and the regions they settled are among the highest in the country when pressed. so for me to put attention agreement for 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 a school categories, guys called google very often,

the government didn't need bids and promises including when it came to providing an education system for the immigrant. and so those are colonies, had a self funded called the catholic schools have a blessed record. that's why for a long time, so many of them kept german is their 1st language. how not, fortunately, you know, for, for get the why my brazilian family no longer speaks german, what the nazis have to do with it. and what consequences did german immigration have for the indigenous peoples? whole this and more. next time. up to about journey through 200 years of german brazilian history. the

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