It's in his blood! Background on the Nazification of the Afrikaner right "In South Africa, this particular story starts the inter-war years (1918-1939), with the rise of National Socialism in Germany and Fascism in Italy from the mid 1920s, many Afrikaner Nationalists increasingly came under the influence of Adolf Hitler and his specific brand of German National Socialism (Nazism). Oswald Pirow, Prime Minister Barry Hertzog’s Minister of Defence (1933-1939), was one of the most influential Afrikaners to fall under Hitler’s spell. Pirow met with Hitler, Hermann Göring, Benito Mussolini and Francisco Franco as an envoy on behalf of the United Party government2. Pirow received Nazi Germany’s feedback on German South West Africa and the ‘new order’ should Germany go to war with Britain and her allies. Pirow gambled his career on a Nazi Germany victory in what he saw as an inevitable war. On 25 September 1940, he founded the national socialist ‘New Order’(NO) for South Africa. He positioned it as a study group within the reformulated National Party (HNP), and based it on Hitler’s new order plans for Africa3. In terms of the NO’s values, Pirow espoused Nazi ideals and advocated an authoritarian state4." Die Vierkleur was the flag of Paul Kruger’s old Transvaal Republic. Literally this means the Vierkleur high. In the spirit, the meaning is subtly different being an invocation to keep the flag flying in the name of the revolution. It became a greeting for Leibrandt’s followers and was accompanied by a salute: the right arm held close to the body, the forearm then jerked up to about 45º with the palm held open. As in Germany, this was done to salute Hitler and the Nazi Party. As it is in Thiel's, Sack's, and Robert O'Brien's by marriage: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/sep/24/trumps-national-security-adviser-attended-racist-university-in-apartheid-south-africa Musk, Thiel and the shadow of apartheid South Africahttps://www.ft.com/content/cfbfa1e8-d8f8-42b9-b74c-dae6cc6185a0 "Elon Musk lived in apartheid South Africa until he was 17. David Sacks, the venture capitalist who has become a fundraiser for Donald Trump and a troll of Ukraine, left aged five, and grew up in a South African diaspora family in Tennessee. Peter Thiel spent years of childhood in South Africa and Namibia, where his father was involved in uranium mining as part of the apartheid regime’s clandestine drive to acquire nuclear weapons."
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