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Furthermore, any diversion of South African troops to Madagascar might be followed by increased pro-Nazi sabotage inside the Union itself. In recent months "dynamitards" of the fascist Ossewa Brandwag-"Ox Wagon Fireguard" (TIME, Feb. 10, 1941)-have blasted high-power transmission lines feeding the great Rand gold mines and the South African railways, have cut telephone & telegraph lines wholesale and even found support among the Union police. Now the Union of South Africa has a death penalty for such acts, but if Madagascar is taken by the Axis, the Union's violent pro-Nazi minority may cause...
...Anyone who didn't grow a voortreker (pioneer) beard was an "outlander" or a traitor. A synagogue was dynamited, and George VI's message to the final jamboree was read in Afrikaans. A hangover from this emotional bender was the growth of the Ossewa Brandwag (Ox-Wagon Fireguard), an Afrikaans cultural organization specializing in swastika armbands, military training, bombings of buildings and rail ways, beating up British soldiers. Leading "Peace Parades" last spring, General Hertzog found himself a benign and unwilling front man for local fascist extremists...
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