A Brazilian police official was fired for praising Hitler. “In order to be a great leader, you need competence and courage. Some here may not agree, but Hitler was an example of a great leader,” Joao Carlos Rodrigues Ferreira, head of the Unified Civil and Military Police of Rio de Janeiro state, said in a speech July 10.
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