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Tiago Rogero in São Leopoldo

‘We cannot deny history again’: Brazil floods show how German migration silenced Black and Indigenous stories

man wearing suit and sunglasses holds a notebook and sits on a tan sofa
Brazil’s president Ernesto Geisel, of German descent, in 1977. Photograph: INTERFOTO/Alamy

Dominga Menezes was only 12 years old when she danced for a dictator.

It was 25 July 1974, and São Leopoldo, a medium-sized city in Brazil’s southernmost state, Rio Grande do Sul, was celebrating both the anniversary of its founding and 150 years of German immigration to Brazil.

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