S. America's Holocaust-Awareness Float

Factual Questions
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Was it Argentina that prevented an intentionally grotesque float (to raise Holocaust awareness) from appearing in some parade? I ask because wasn’t it Argentina to which several WWII Nazi War Criminals fled (but were eventually caught)? - Jinx

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It was in Brazil, proposed for the Carnival parade last weekend: Rio judge bans float on Holocaust.

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Samba group?

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[QUOTE=KneadToKnow]
Samba group?
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The float was being hosted by a samba school.

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I clearly don’t understand that dance as well as I thought I did.

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[QUOTE=Jinx]
Was it Argentina that prevented an intentionally grotesque float (to raise Holocaust awareness) from appearing in some parade? I ask because wasn’t it Argentina to which several WWII Nazi War Criminals fled (but were eventually caught)? - Jinx
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As the linked article says, it was a Jewish Federation in Brazil that blocked the float.

The Miami Herald article I read on this alleges the float was to have included a “dancing Hitler.” The BBC account says the float would have included Hitler, but a non-dancing one.

Some Nazis did take refuge in Argentina post-War, but Argentina has nothing to do with this particular story.

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[QUOTE=Jinx]
I ask because wasn’t it Argentina to which several WWII Nazi War Criminals fled (but were eventually caught)? - Jinx
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Argentina had a sizable German population before the war and still does. This included and still includes a great number of people of German-Jewish ancestery. After the war, a lot of Germans went there, again, including German Jews. Not all Argentine Germans are Nazis or decended from Nazi escapees.

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[QUOTE=Colibri]
The BBC account says the float would have included Hitler, but a non-dancing one.
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Much better. Dancing would have been in bad taste.

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[QUOTE=Loach]
Much better. Dancing would have been in bad taste.
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Especially Hitler doing a samba in a thong.

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[insert The Producers pop culture reference here]

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[QUOTE=Lemur866]
[insert The Producers pop culture reference here]
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Sure. Any excuse to show John Barrowman singing.

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[QUOTE=Loach]
Much better. Dancing would have been in bad taste.
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Ice dancing would be even worse, though.