Were there any countries in South Africa that were pro-German or pro-Axis? #ww2 #shorts

[Emile]

We usually use Southern Africa when we refer to the region, so that we don't get confused with the country called south africa

[Jaxck]

It’s sooo surprising that the heads behind Apartheid were ex-Fascists…

[Fidel-Castroni]

I'm from Botswana (formerly Bechuanaland Protectorate). My grandfather volunteered to fight for the British when they requested volunteers. He was struck by artillery shrapnel in the chest, but survived the wounds, with heavy scarring to his chest. He passed long before I was born though, so sadly I could never ask him about his experiences, but I figure he likely served in Italy and the Middle East based on the stories I've heard that he told my dad and his siblings as they grew up.

[ummdustry]

subtitles are wrong here, should be afrikaans speakers not african speakers

[marcelcoetzee]

Just thought I would add a pedantic note on terminology here. South Africa should refer to the country whereas Southern Africa is how people refer to the region as a whole. It is a side effect of bad country naming I guess.

[ddewittfulton]

Some Dutch Jews were able to escape to South Africa. I had to wonderful fortune of spending a semester in London in the 1990s staying with a woman named Doris who a cousin of Anne Frank. Doris and her family managed to flee the Netherlands for South Africa early in the war.

[MetusalemSeSouffleur]

Just to be clear... South Africa and Southern Africa are two different things... One is a country, the other a region, like southern America.

[edwinblake]

Southern africa included German West Africa which became a South African protectorate after WW1. During WW2 German men were interned, clearly because of possible German sympathies.
A very readable story is told in "The Sheltering Desert" of two german geologists, Henno Martin and Hermann Korn hiding in the Namib Desert for two and a half years to avoid the camps.

[timswabb]

Trevor Noah tells a hilarious story about his black friend who was named Hitler because the white people seemed to fear that name. Noah and his friends had no idea who the real Hitler was or what he stood for. This led to an embarrassing incident when the group was invited to entertain students at a Jewish school, and started yelling “go Hitler, go Hitler” when their friend Hitler started to dance.

[loreman]

Well done. Prime Minister, Field Marshall Jan Smuts, was an Anglophile, despite having fought against Britain in the guerilla phase of the 2nd Anglo-Boer war. He'd read Law at Cambridge.
He managed to quell both a Communist miners' strike in 1922, and the pro-German rebels. He appealed to both Boer and Brit, and was really close to Churchill. After his death, his political party collapsed, and the Afrikaner Nationalists won the 1948 election, setting the scene for the next 40 yrs! A lot of those Nationalists had been children in the British concentration camps (the first use of the term), where the Boers died like flies.
Evil proliferates, when evil is done.

[michielburger]

People should keep in mind that a number Afrikaners sided with the Germans and against the empire due to the fact that they waged a war against the empire and the british murdered approximately 27000 woman and children. Thus there was a negative sentiment against the empire.

[martinb]

South African here, white. The whole government was modeled after the German's as a kid growing up during apartheid and studying WW2 was a wild experience.

Just look up AWB that should explain a little bit of South Africa's flirt with fascism. I mean the flag is just so unoriginal too.

[ldbll]

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.

[christophercoleman]

The Imperial South African troops with the British were nicknamed "Springboks". During the North African campaigns they used a number of South Africam made armored cars that were useful for desert warfare.

[harvey]

It was in 1898 in South Africa that the British invented the concentration camp to help stop aid for the Boer fighters (who were of German descent).

[tomlevick]

Interesting, great short video and packed full of info.

[ternel]

South Rhodesia is a story all of its own

[Ian-mjpt]

When i grew up during the 70s and 80s we also were split by language we had afrikaans friends but when it came to some things there was a undertone along certain lines of thought

[Federalrepublicofsprout]

Well, it took a second with Madagascar, they had the Vichy and the Japanese on the island and it was a whole campaign to take it back

[Godfearingturkey]

Wow never thought about this, great video!