NEM ROTSCHILD NEM TROTSKY

Analyzes the stand of Brazilian writer and politician Gustavo Barroso (1888-1959) towards the Jews in the context of a critical period in Brazil's history in the 1930s. A lawyer and a non-religious man, Barroso adhered in 1933 to the Ação Integralista Brasileira, a nationalist, fascist-like organization which denounced liberalism and democracy and opposed both communism and capitalism. Barroso became one of the ideologues of the AIB and chief of its green shirt paramilitary troops, calling for a revolution against Jews whom he considered the internal enemy. He claimed he fought the Jews not for religious or racial but for political reasons, blaming them for an alleged conspiracy for world domination and calling for a totalitarian Catholic regime (e.g. in his book "O Quarto Império", 1935). Barroso retired from political life after a failed AIB coup attempt in 1938.