“The whole speech was based on a national ideal for Brazilian Art, and there was a coincidence with ONE phrase from a speech by Goebbels,” he wrote. The video was set to a piece of string music by Richard Wagner – a German composer who was a favorite of Adolf Hitler and known for expressing anti-semitic views.Īlvim initially defended the video, calling the similarities between the two speeches a “rhetorical coincidence” in a post on his Facebook page Friday morning. It will have a great capacity for emotional involvement and it will at once be obligatory, because it will be profoundly linked to the urgent aspirations of our people, or it will be nothing.” In the video, Alvim said: “Brazilian art of the next decade will be heroic and it will be national.
“German art of the next decade will be heroic it will be like steel it will be romantic, non-sentimental, factual it will be national with great pathos and at once obligatory and binding, or it will be nothing,” Goebbels said. Brazilian media compared sections of his address to a Goebbels speech delivered in 1933.
