单词 | ossewa brandwag |
释义 | Ossewa Brandwagn. South African. Now historical. With the. An Afrikaner nationalist organization, originally founded in 1938 as a cultural movement but in the 1940s becoming increasingly militant in its adherence to Nazism. Abbreviated OB. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > African politics > [noun] > South African politics > specific parties remskoen party1898 S.A.P.1920 African National Congress1923 OB1940 Ossewa Brandwag1940 U.P.1943 ANC1952 1939 Forum (Johannesburg) 11 Feb. 3 Foundation of a body to be known as ‘Die Ossewa Brandwag’ was announced in Bloemfontein. The Movement aims at perpetuation of the ox-waggon spirit in South Africa.] 1940 J. C. Smuts in G. H. Galpin There are No S. Africans (1941) 303 Its organisers keep telling us that the Ossewa Brandwag is not a secret organisation, but..why is there so much talk about singling out traitors? 1969 J. M. White Land God made in Anger in Dict. S. Afr. Eng. (1978) 173/1 On the eve of the war, a party existed in South Africa which was dedicated to the Nazi cause and ideology. It came into existence in 1938, and called itself the Ossewa Brandwag—the Sentinels of the Ox-Wagon. 1979 Sunday Times (Johannesburg) 10 June 19 He became a general in the militant Ossewa-Brandwag at the age of 25. 1991 K. Maguire Politics in S. Afr. i. 14 A number of members of the Ossewa Brandweg..were interned during the 1939–45 war. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1940 |
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