Latin America: Reconversion

Now that the war was over—it ended officially in Brazil on Nov. 30—Brazilians had a small problem on their hands. The problem: what to do with 30 German midgets who had been interned in a Sao Paulo schoolhouse during the war. The rumored solution: the supermen would work as waiters in a children's restaurant.

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