Were there any countries in South Africa that were pro-German or pro-Axis? #ww2 #shorts
Were there any countries in South Africa that were pro-German or pro-Axis? #ww2 #shorts
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If you say afrikaans speakers the a is longer otherwise it sounds like afrikan also add the s
in fact most of the colonized world was supporting the AXIS, wich they viewed as the one fighting there oppressors, the US and Canada where the odd one out, india was very pro axis too, most people in afrika and asia never even heard about hitler
The Nazi sympathizers were mostly a case of 'my enemy's enemy is my friend'. the Afrikaners were still suffering form the British killing 26000 women and children during the Second Boer War, thus when the British wanted to go to war, they picked to support the Germans.
mozambique HERE
But SA is falling apart now
I assume bechuanaland was also firmly pro British
When the Far Left and the Far Right agreed with each other in SA!:
It took a long debate in parliament in SA before we declared war on Germany on 9 September 1939.
Smuts could not insist on a draft to fill the SA armies ranks as it would gave split the country in two, possibly leading to a civil war.
The SA Communists sided with the pro-Germans in 1939, as ordered (or following Moscows example) by Stalin. There was strong anti-Smuts sentiment in the left-wing over the quelling of the 1922 Strike known as the Rand Rebellion.
Some Afrikaaners remained in the army, honouring their pledge, but many, especially officers, resigned their commissions.
My family had soldiers fighting Fascism in North Africa, and others sabotaging SA alongside Robey Leibrandt of the Ossewa Brandwags' Stormjaers.(Storm troopers)
To this day, most of the Afrikaans side of the family refuse to speak to the English-speaking side, but that's due to the Boer War, not WWII.
Yeah, most of em.
It's always interesting to hear these other perspectives. Almost all information you find focuses on the major powers: US, UK, France, USSR, Germany, Japan and sometimes Italy.
Rhodesians never die
The divide among Afrikaners in WW2 came from the Afrikaners assimilation most of the Boers right after the Second Boer war. Before the Second Boer War Afrikaners and Boers were two different people with the Boers being considerably smaller in numbers. While the Boers fought the Brits in the Second Boer War the Afrikaners was living in the Cape Colony mostly not getting involved in the war. After the Second Boer War Afrikaners made a large effort to assimilate the Boers and succeed in assimilating most of the devastated Boer into their Afrikaner identity. Naturally all that hatred of the British came with the Boers that assimilated with the Afrikaners. Thus why most Afrikaners were willing to fight for British Imperialism while a smaller number was very anti-Imperialist, specifically anti-British imperialism.
Hey look, Apartheid was supported by a bunch of traitors, who'd'a thunk.
If you didn't have SERVICE PEOPLE, you be up sh….ts creek !! 🙄
Those PEOPLE WERE VERY IMPORTANT, AND A GREAT HAND OF THANKS TO ALL OF THEM ❤
The terrible political group that supported Apartide 🙄 were ABSOLUTELY WRONG 😢😢😢😢
I think they passed the resolution to declare war by 1 vote. IIRC. 😳
How can you say, "North and Southern Rhodesia were behind the British and Angola and Mozambique were Portuguese." These countries were under colonial rule. They had no choice! They would rather have had nothing to do with Europe, I'm sure! The ones who volunteered did it for their own ulterior motives or in the hopes of forwarding the cause of their liberation.
While watching the current ICC World Cup I took a gander at Namibia…
One of the few German colonies and formerly known as German Southwest Africa…
Bordering South Africa…check that out😮
What about Namibia?
Smh and we funded those guys
When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, French and British declare war on Germany, And about two weeks later, Russia invaded Poland, so why didn’t French and British declare war on Russia?
Wow never thought about this, great video!
So there was indeed a correlation between nazism and apartheid, I didn't know that and thought they were completely separated.
Couldn’t hear anything over that tie
My father was in South Africa and Rhodesia during WW2, learning to fly. Out in the bush there were Boers who occasionally shot at British troops.
Well there is Namibia.
If I was known as B.J. I'd probably be a bit of a prick as well 😂
And we see where supporting the British empire got them..
The black South-Africans still volunteered… Godspeed, you magnificent bastards.🪖🫡🇿🇦
Not surprised that South Africa had German sympathies.
What about Namibia?
No mention of Namibia then.
It should be noted that all White South African politicians, whether pro-British or pro-German were White supremacists who took land from non-White South Africans and made laws that barred non-White South Africans from owning land.
Apartheid was simply an expansion of pre-existing colonial and post colonial discriminatory policies against non-White South Africans.
Jan Smuts was only liberal in how pro-English he was, he created many discriminatory laws against non-White South Africans, but he was not as vehemently anti-English as may Afrikaners were.
Afrikaners did not like being colonized by the English and English South Africans tended to be richer and have a much larger amount of control on the country's businesses while Afrikaners were often more likely to be rural farmers or lower middle class/middle class. This led to a rise of ultra nationalist politicians like those who would eventually form the National Party who would gain votes and power and become the leading government party and create Apartheid.