In his letter dated Lisbon dated 3 November 1940 No. 890 to the Oberkommando der Kriegsmarine wrote the German Marineattaché Portugal that according to the newspapers Primeiro de Janeiro dated 30 October and Diario de Lisboa, Lisbon, dated 31 October the Brazilian steam passenger ship Siqueira Campos left on 4 November for Rio de Janeiro. On board she loaded war stores sent with more as 100 wagons from Germany to the Brazilian government. The weight of the large boxes could be around 3,070 kilo. The Brazilian government seemed to have ordered for more as 17 million Reichsmark war stores from Germany.
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Bundesarchiv. German Marineattaché Portugal. RM 11-16
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