Keith

I think I have succesfully defended my points that A) The British invented the concentration camp and B) The boers and "british" south africans hold each other in suspicious regard.

Your subsequent point is a tangent and a diversion. But while we are on the subject, what about it?

The boers felt that they were the supreme race in their own land, and it was bad enough having to put up with the "british" south africans without having to suffer the arrogance of the German Nazi regime to boot.

They saw themselves as the only true white south africans, the "british" ones being "salt dicks" who had never moved inland from the coast (their dicks still being in the sea), while the true Afrikaaners were farmers who lived on the land and were a part of it.

But at least the "british" ones had a history there. Occupation by more meddling europeans was not their idea of national emancipation.

It's analagous to the true story of the Von Trapp family in the "sound of music". I wasn't that the real Baron Von Trapp himself abhorred Nazism, He was as right wing as they come. It was just that he saw Austrians as being superior to germans and couldn't abide being ruled by an inferior nation.

Though it should perhaps be pointed out, (as you are desperately willing me to do so that you can call it nonsense), that just as some boers saw the Brits as the lesser of two evils, so there were some who believed the opposite.

Hence there were plenty of boers who were willing and ready to support the germans for that reason in the event that such an opportunity might arise.