Historical+BackgroundJ

__Terms__ Afrikaner- descendants of first Dutch settlers Boers- Afrikaners in British language

The story begins in 1939, when World War II was happening in Europe.

-Employees of Dutch East India Company came to Africa to provide stopover for Dutch ships, on their way to East Indies. (1652) - Cape Colony.

-Dutch language spoken by the Afrikaners evolved and became Afrikaans.

-Cape Colony passed from Dutch to British (1814).

-Boers moved out of British territory.

-gold and diamonds were discovered (late 1800s)-> British desire to control these led to Boer War (1899-1902).

-To weaken Boer supply network, British gathered Afrikaner women and children and placed them in the first concentration camps.

-British won Boer War-> Afrikaners became politically enthusiastic.

-Afrikaner Nationalist Party was sympathetic to Hitler, but British hated Hitler.

-Nationalist Party instituted a policy of Apartheid to maintain white Afrikaner political supremacy (1948).

-South Africa withdrew from British Commonwealth (1961).