Made in Germany | Blumenau -- Why Germans are Investing in Southern Brazil

German companies have traditionally been glad to do business in Sao Paulo, but these days many investors are scared off by the large number of German firms there already and the Brazilian city's notorious crime problems.

Sao Paulo's loss has been Blumenau's gain. Each year hordes of tourists flock to the southern Brazilian city's Octoberfest, the largest of its kind in Latin America. But as Vanessa Fischer reports, this city of 300,000 inhabitants has much more to offer.

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[rogerpenna]

bullshit.

Germans started colonizing southern Brazil in 1824, when the brazilian Emperor, married to an Austrian princess of the Habsburg family, opened german immigration to settle southern Brazil and keep the pesky argies away.

Nazis came to Brazil EXACTLY because there were LOTS of german communities here, and some relatives! It was easy for them to mix in southern Brazil. The same wouldnt be true in northern Brazil!

[JohnPlayer4ever]

@ChickCrack like evrywhere in world. all that good stuff from US was maked by german immigrants. watch all the german names in the US in Economy or watch the Winners of US nobelprice people. so much with german names.

the germans know how to make good stuff

[demoralizeBR]

The truth is that there are much more German's companies in Sao Paulo than in Blumenau!

Sao Paulo is the richest city in Brazil therefore compare Sao Paulo to Blumenau doesn't make any sense at all!

The 2nd richest city in Brazil is Rio de Janeiro, Eike Batista (the 8ºth richest man in the world) lives in Rio de Janeiro. So I think that's why germans do prefer Sao Paulo or Rio at all, as well as other nations. Cause it's easier to make money.

[rogerpenna]

@Poltermann the sentence has double meaning.

it can mean that, EXCLUDING Germany, Brazil is the 2nd country with more germans.

it can also mean that, AFTER GERMANY, Brazil is the 2nd country with more germans.

[Poltermann]

@Manuelsk850 True story ;) and folks, have a better look before posting: the U.S.A. is -de facto- the country with the biggest german-descending population outside of Germany BUT Brazil has the second largest. Consequential, not? This is why he actually wrote SECOND. I'm also tired of people who don't educate themselfs, who just think that the country they're living in is everything and that there's nothing outside. This is nonesene and annoying as fukc!

[Poltermann]

@rogerpenna yep, that's because he actually wrote "second".

[rogerpenna]

@Manuelsk850

sorry pal, thats nonsense. Over 40% of the 300 million americans are german descendants. German descendants in the US surpass the english descendants.

[demoralizeBR]

Ich komme aus Brasilien, aus São Paulo

Tenho inglês fluente e agora to aprendendo Alemão porque gostei da língua

um dia vou conhecer SC e RS e quem sabe a Alemanha

[bandluiz]

I'm from Blumenau, my surname is Reinhardt, any questions?

[brazilvideoinfo]

people outside Brazil need to understand that Brazil is actually divided in 5 regions (in those 5 regions there are 26 states and 1 federal district). Each of those 5 regions (North, North-East, South-East, Central West and South) are litterly different from each other include in culture and people.

[1Rvicenzi]

South of Brazil is TOTTALY different than the rest... We are really different talking about culture, costumes, manners.

Try to Look for these cities:

Bombinhas

Blumenau

Porto Alegre

Gramado

Pomerode

Brusque

I`m proud to be here, in the south...