In this Sept. 8, 2017 file photo Alternative for Germany, AfD, deputy chairwoman Beatrix von Storch attends a press conference with former UK Independence Party leader, Nigel Farage in Berlin. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) Brazil’s president effusively welcomed a far-right German lawmaker whose grandfather was a senior Nazi officer, causing an uproar among Jewish groups.
Jair Bolsonaro, who has been highly divisive among Brazilian Jewish voters despite his openly pro-Israel speech, met with Beatrix von Storch, the deputy leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party and a member of the German parliament since 2017.
The right-wing Bolsonaro was all smiles while meeting on Monday with von Storch, who is a granddaughter of Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, a former finance minister during Adolf Hitler’s Nazi rule.
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