The gvt is the 1948 issue of the elections in ZA (at that time the name was
in afrikaans, and it stays that way both in the internet codes [anything
ending with ZA is a south african label node[)
the Afrikaners, better the majority of them, were and are bitterly
anti-anglos, what they correcty saw as the genocidal minority that won the
wars (what the anglo calls Boer wars) and put them in concentration camps,
due to the innovative strategies of Lord Kitchener to sequester women and
children.) For those who like adventures, I suggest the life of Melinda de
Fonseca.
be that s it may, south african military was with US FRANCE RUSSIA UK NZ AU
forces during word war 2.
There were several cases of nazi-like formations in south africa in the
1940's. The dynamic was military: anything anti english was good for them.
One found similar dynamics in Europe w.r.t. irish nationalist independence
prone fighters in Ireland.
The government issued from the victory of NP after the war had no nazi
germany to talk to.........
the extent of nazism in south africa is limited to anti semitic cretins and
idiots (there was an Akhenaz community in south africa since the times of
great progroms in (then) imperial russia)
best to all of you
Kerem jojjenek maskor es kulonosen masho
palma, a paolo shaul םֹשׁ ְרֵגּ
On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 1:40 AM Lawrence Helm <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
*I found this strange “footnote” in the Kindle edition of Weinberg’s A
World At Arms at the end of Chapter 2. I did not find this note in my
(original edition) hard copy:*
*“Some of the opponents of war with Germany sympathized with National
Socialism, and the leaders of this faction would take over the government
in Pretoria in 1948, dominating the government of what was to become the
Republic of South Africa thereafter. . . .”*
*This is a wee bit ambiguous it seems to me. When I first read it I
assumed Weinberg was saying that South Africa had a National Socialist
government beginning in 1948 and “thereafter.” In a subsequent reading I
think he is merely saying that the name of the South African state was,
after, 1948, named “the Republic of South Africa” and not that it had a
Nazi government from 1948 and “thereafter” . . . but I’m not sure.*
*This reference is described by Weinberg as coming from Kenneth Ingham,
Jan Christian Smuts: The Conscience of a South African (New York: St.
Martin’s 1986), pp. 205-7 – if anyone happens to have that book. *
*I couldn’t find anything helpful from Wikipedia.*
*Lawrence*
