Brazil’s secretary of culture has been fired after using phrases from an infamous speech by Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels in a recent video, in which one of Adolf Hitler’s favorite operas was also playing in the background.



President Jair Bolsonaro announced that Roberto Alvim would be dismissed from his position on Friday after outcry from politicians and organizations across the country.

In a video posted to social media announcing a national art award, Alvim invoked ties between art and nationalism.

“Brazilian art of the next decade will be heroic and will be national,” Alvim said, adding that it would be tied to the aspirations of the people, "or else it will be nothing.”

Playing in the background of the video is music from the opera Lohengrin, composed by Richard Wagner, who is often associated with Nazism. It was also a favorite of Hitler’s.