“TENHO A HONRA DE INFORMAR QUE AQUELE ALEMÃO É UM SÚDITO DO EIXO”: TENSÕES ENTRE ALEMÃES E BRASILEIROS EM UNIÃO DA VITÓRIA E PORTO UNIÃO NO ESTADO NOVO

Abstract

This research investigates the aspects of the relationships between German migrants, descendants, and Brazilians during the Estado Novo on the municipalities of União da Vitória (PR) and Porto União (SC). This investigation is pertinent insofar as on that moment the Germans and German-Brazilians were understood, initially, as disruptives of the national unity and, afterward, as enemies of the politic rule implanted on November 1937. The government used the dissemination of an imaginary through symbols and legal dispositives, on which the people considered against the national interests should be combated. On this context, the censorship to the mass media and the police repression settled in everywhere and the population was kept in an alert state, resulting in the most varied conflicts. To investigate these matters we separated as sources the documents produced by the Delegacia de Ordem Política e Social do Paraná (DOPS/PR), available on the Paraná State Public Archive, as well as copies of the newspaper O Comércio, from 1937 to 1945. We investigate how the documents found on DOPS/PR and the speeches produced and published by the newspaper O Comércio reveal the tensions between German migrants/descendants and the Brazilians in the municipalities of União da Vitória and Porto União, on the context of the repression of the Estado Novo. We also used the minutes books of the City Council of União da Vitória (1890-1905) and pictures that depict spaces and local events to the reconstitution of the spacial universe that this research covers. On these sources, we used the Laurence Bardin (2001) content analysis methodology. It is the qualitative analysis, having as counting rule norm the presence/absence. As the municipalities in question have a significant number of German descendants and migrants, perhaps, producing a work of that nature we can find some explications to the tensions experienced by the subjects and the contradictions of this period that were relevant to the contemporary Brazil history.