Os Protocolos dos Sábios de Sião [“The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.” The Hidden World Government: The Jewish Program to Subjugate the World].

(ANTISEMITICA).

Agencia Minerva

São Paulo

1936

FIRST BRAZILIAN EDITION. Translated and edited by Gustavo Dodt Barroso (João do Norte). Anti-Semitic upper cover depicting a fierce serpent seeking to attack Brazil.

The first Brazilian edition of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Worldcat records just one single copy worldwide, located in the British Library. Preapared for publication by Gustavo Barroso (1888-1957), a conspiratorial anti-Semite, who was one of the most prominent writers in the country, and thrice president of the Brazilian Academy of Letters. The work is exceedingly rare as all known copies were destroyed in 1938 following the Integralist coup attempt against the semi-fascist regime of Getúlio Vargas. In 1942, following attacks on the Brazilian merchant marine by German and Italian submarines, Brazil joined the Allies and fought the Germans in Italy; but at the time of publication of this “Protocols” there was a voluble pro-Axis movement in Brazil.