18 Facts About Gustavo Barroso

Gustavo Adolfo Luiz Dodt da Cunha Barroso was a Brazilian lawyer, historian, writer and politician associated with Brazilian Integralism and antisemitism.

Gustavo Barroso was known by the pseudonym Joao do Norte.

Gustavo Barroso is considered the most anti-Semitic Brazilian intellectual, whose ideas were close to those of Nazi theorists.

Gustavo Barroso studied at the Faculty of Law of Ceara linked to the Federal University of Ceara, graduating in 1911 from the Faculty of Law of Rio de Janeiro, currently the National Faculty of Law of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

Gustavo Barroso was half German by birth, his mother coming from Wurttemberg.

Gustavo Barroso made his name as a journalist and was for a time involved with the socialist Clube Maximo Gorki.

Gustavo Barroso soon became an important figure in Ceara state, serving variously as Secretary of the Interior and Justice, and being elected a Representative in the National Congress.

Gustavo Barroso even formed part of the Brazilian delegation to the Paris Peace Conference of 1919.

In 1933, Gustavo Barroso joined the Brazilian Integralist Action, which had fascist characteristics.

Gustavo Barroso soon became the head of the extreme anti-Jewish faction within the Brazilian Integralist Action.

Political differences caused Gustavo Barroso to be regarded as dangerous by the more constitutionally minded Integralista party's leader, Plinio Salgado, who suspended him from collaborating for six months with the party's newspaper, A Ofensiva.

However Gustavo Barroso continued to pursue his antisemitic ideals, translating The Protocols of the Elders of Zion into Portuguese and even suggesting setting up concentration camps.

However Gustavo Barroso was never tried due to a lack of evidence of his involvement in the attempted coup.

Gustavo Barroso subsequently left political activism and became largely accepting of Getulio Vargas later constitutional government, serving as a special ambassador to Uruguay and Peru.

Gustavo Barroso was mentioned as a relevant intellectual in a publication that lists extreme-right activists from the whole world.

Gustavo Barroso was often linked with the neorealist school of Brazilian literature, although he differed from the neorealism typified by the likes of Erico Verissimo, Amando Fontes and Telmo Vergara by his emphasis on rural rather than urban settings.

Gustavo Barroso belonged to the regionalist documentary strand of Brazilian neorealism, although, along with Mario Sete, he rejected the inherent modernism in the works of contemporaries in the genre such as Jorge Luis de Rego and Jorge Amado.

Gustavo Barroso translated The Protocols of the Elders of Zion into Portuguese.