# S. America's Holocaust-Awareness Float **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 6, 2008, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/s-americas-holocaust-awareness-float/436504 "2008-02-06T13:26:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2008, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/s-americas-holocaust-awareness-float/436504/1 "2008-02-06T13:26:25Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2008, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/s-americas-holocaust-awareness-float/436504/2 "2008-02-06T14:35:37Z")
It was in Brazil, proposed for the Carnival parade last weekend: [Rio judge bans float on Holocaust](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7220436.stm). ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2008, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/s-americas-holocaust-awareness-float/436504/3 "2008-02-06T14:41:58Z")
> [@article linked above](#): > > The judge issued the injunction after a lawsuit brought by the Jewish Federation of Rio de Janeiro, Fierj. > > She said the samba group could still parade but must remove mannequins meant to represent dead bodies. _Samba_ group? ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2008, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/s-americas-holocaust-awareness-float/436504/4 "2008-02-06T15:27:47Z")
[QUOTE=KneadToKnow] _Samba_ group? [/QUOTE] The float was being hosted by a samba school. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2008, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/s-americas-holocaust-awareness-float/436504/5 "2008-02-06T15:30:39Z")
I clearly don’t understand that dance as well as I thought I did. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2008, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/s-americas-holocaust-awareness-float/436504/6 "2008-02-06T16:42:02Z")
[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 [/QUOTE] 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. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2008, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/s-americas-holocaust-awareness-float/436504/7 "2008-02-06T17:12:30Z")
[QUOTE=Jinx] I ask because wasn’t it Argentina to which several WWII Nazi War Criminals fled (but were eventually caught)? - Jinx [/QUOTE] 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. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2008, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/s-americas-holocaust-awareness-float/436504/8 "2008-02-06T22:23:00Z")
[QUOTE=Colibri] The BBC account says the float would have included Hitler, but a non-dancing one. [/QUOTE] Much better. Dancing would have been in bad taste. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2008, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/s-americas-holocaust-awareness-float/436504/9 "2008-02-06T22:36:05Z")
[QUOTE=Loach] Much better. Dancing would have been in bad taste. [/QUOTE] Especially Hitler doing a samba in a thong. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2008, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/s-americas-holocaust-awareness-float/436504/10 "2008-02-06T22:53:50Z")
[insert _The Producers_ pop culture reference here] ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2008, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/s-americas-holocaust-awareness-float/436504/11 "2008-02-06T23:12:16Z")
[QUOTE=Lemur866] [insert _The Producers_ pop culture reference here] [/QUOTE] Sure. Any excuse to show [John Barrowman](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4v6qRdnKas) singing. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2008, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/s-americas-holocaust-awareness-float/436504/12 "2008-02-08T01:14:48Z")
[QUOTE=Loach] Much better. Dancing would have been in bad taste. [/QUOTE] [Ice dancing](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgM3_bVb79k) would be even worse, though.