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

The promotion of European immigration was linked to the idea of whitening the Brazilian population', say historians

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

It was 25 July 1974, and Sao 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.