Word: ossewa
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...town in ox wagons. 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...