Brazil minister quits over accusations of Nazi quotes

In a video, Alvim, a member of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro's government, announced a new arts funding programme to the background of music by Richard Wagner, a composer many associate with Nazism.

The wording was similar to phrases attributed to Goebbels in a biography written by German holocaust expert Peter Longerich and published originally in German in 2010. Earlier Rodrigo Maia, the president of the House of Deputies, called for Alvim to be sacked over the speech, which lasted several minutes.

"The whole speech is based on a nationalist ideal for Brazilian art and there was a coincidence with one phrase from a speech by Goebbels ... I didn't quote him and I never would," he said."The phrase, in itself, is perfect: heroism and the people's aspirations is what we want to see in national art."

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