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for her leaning toward the U.S. and to warn the country off from further hostile actions."

The secret operation started in early July 1942 in Bordeaux. A U-boat flotilla left for the south Atlantic to
sink as many Brazilian ships as possible in "free maneuvers." On August 15, 1942, U- o7 torpedoed the
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Brazilian freighter Baendepi near Salvador, and twenty-four hours later the freighter Araquara. Seven days
later, on August 22, 1942, Brazil declared war on the Third Reich.

The outcome of the Second World War was not affected by the fighting on the Brazilian front, which was
restricted to the northern shore, starting at Salvador, via Recife, down to Belém on the mouth of the
Amazon. U-boats operating in this area attempted to cut off Allied supplies to Africa and Europe and
prevent the development of strong Allied defensive fortifications along the coast. It was here that Brazilians
and Americans had stationed bomber squads and an army of 55,000 men. According to a remark in the
Historia do Exercito Brasileiro, their task was "the defense against a possible German invasion in the
region of Joao Pessoa and Natal."

The Brazilian high command was so firmly convinced of German invasion plans that it increased the
strength of the army to 65,000 as late as 1943—1944. The strategic area "Norte-Nordeste" only lost
significance after the Allied victory over Rommel’s Afrika Korps and plans for the reconquest of France
had started.

Did Hitler actually plan a Brazilian conquest? Was it technically feasible? Did it by any chance actually
occur? According to the war journal of the Brazilian Colonel José Maria Mendes, the Brazilian military was
convinced of German invasion plans; otherwise it would be impossible to explain the strong army units
along the north coast. The Brazilian Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha expressed the same opinion in a
discussion with U.S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery in 1941: "We are convinced that the German
Wehrmacht will try to occupy Latin America. Strategic reasons alone require the invasion to begin in
Brazil."

German military historians offer quite a different opinion. In their evaluation of Third Reich strategy, they
agree that the invasion plans were wish-fulfilment dreams of Rosenberg, technically impracticable, and
never seriously planned. This school of thought can in no way explain a secret cable from Secretary of State
Weizsaecker to the "Feldmark," the code name for the South American desk at the Foreign Office. In this
cable, Weizsaecker informed Ambassador Ritter of the internal arguments between the Wehrmacht and the
Foreign Office in connection with operations against the Brazilian mainland. The reference to the mainland
confirms other information regarding Hitler’s plans to extend his power to Latin America sooner or later.
According to the protocols of the Munich conference on September 29, 1938, Chamberlain suggested to the
Führer that German settlers be sent to Amazonia.

2,000 German Soldiers in Akakor

Available historical facts do not suffice to provide immutable evidence for a landing of German forces in
Brazil. But the reports on Hitler’s mystical imagination of the universe are extremely revealing. They date
back to 1920, when the former house painter encountered the poet Dietrich Eckehardt, who for three years
influenced the future "Führer of the Great German Empire" with his theories of the origin of the Germanic
tribes in Thule, the supernatural beings of a vanished civilization, and the imminent rise of a superior race in
the heart of Germany. In October 1927, shortly before his death, Eckehardt wrote: "Follow Hitler. He will
dance. But the tune was written by me. We have given him the opportunity to make contact with Them. Do
not grieve for me. I have influenced history more than any other German."
Master Eckehardt’s tune was played all too soon. Within a few years, the religious association (Thule) he
had founded developed into a powerful secret society, and in its wake arose the groups Edeiweiss, the
WaifenSS, and the association Ahnenerbe (Ancestors’ Heritage). The magic doctrines Eckehardt had
proposed led to the creation of a terroristic state which combined an almost complete totalitarian order with

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