THE HOUSE OF DEATH IN PETROPOLIS. THE HERITAGE OF A TRAUMATIC MEMORY

Abstract

The “Casa da Morte”, located at Rua Arthur Barbosa, number 120, Caxambu, in the city of Petrópolis, operated as an active clandestine repression center coordinated by the CIE (Army Information Center) in the early 1970s. The property was provided by the German businessman Mário Lodders, it was a space far from other locations and with no residents around, making it an environment conducive to torture sessions. Considered as one of the worst torture cellars of the Military Dictatorship, it was also known as the Casa dos Horrores and Codão, as it was almost impossible to leave the place alive, with the exception of Inês Etienne Romeu, the surviving militant who reported the violations that happened there. Created as a clandestine center of political oppression, the Casa da Morte was one of the worst centers of repression of the dictatorship, in which hatred and violence against those who did not agree with the measures and policies of the dictatorship, knew the darkest and most nefarious side. of the period.