The Forgotten Boys of Brazil (Menino 23)

Streaming video - 2016

This acclaimed documentary begins with the discovery of bricks marked with Nazi swastikas on a farm in the countryside of São Paulo. It is revealed that during the 1930’s, fifty black boys were taken from an orphanage in Rio de Janeiro and led to the farm.. There, the boys were identified by numbers and subjected to slave labor by a family that was part of the political, military and economic elite of the country. This family did not hide their affinity for the Nazi ideology.. At the time, Brazil was home to early 3,000 members of the Nazi Party and it later become a safe heaven for Nazi war criminals after WWII, when 20,000 more Germans settled there. The most notorious fugitive to settle in Brazil was Dr. Josef Mengele.. Two survivors ...from this Brazilian tragedy reveal their stories for the first time.. “A fascinating and disturbing true-life tale.” – The Hollywood Reporter more