Word: skietcommando
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...Skietcommando. Erasmus concentrated mostly on his own private Nationalist army, called the Skietcommando and modeled after Hitler's SA and SS troops. He ordered the "Her Majesty" insignia stripped from the caps of all South African naval men, required all military textbooks to be translated into Afrikaans. Propelled, like all the Nationalists, by a fanatic mixture of hatred and fear of South Africa's browns and blacks, Erasmus even disbanded the effective native and half-caste units with which Smuts had built up the South African army...
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