Prologue from the unspoken alliance

  APRIL 9, 1976, South African prime minister Balthazar Johannes 

Vorster arri,·ed at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem 

";th full diplomatic entourage in tow. After passing solemnly through 

the corridors commemorating those gassed in Auschwitz and Dachau, he 

entered the dimly lit Hall of Remembrance, where a memorial flame 

burned alongside a crypt filled with the ashes of Holocaust victims. 

Vorster bowed his head as a South African minister read a psalm in 

Afrikaans, the haunting melody of theJe";sh prayer for the dead filling 

the room. He then kneeled and laid a wreath, containing the colors of 

the South African flag, in memory of Hitler's victims. Cameras snapped, 

dignitaries applauded, and Israeli officials quickly ferried the prime minister away to his next destination.• Back in Johannesburg, the opposition 

joumalist Benjamin Pogrund was sickened as he watched the spectacle 

on television. Thousands of South African Jews shared Pogzund's disgust; they knew all too well that Vorster had another, darker past. 

In addjtion to being the architect of South Africa's brutal crackdown 

on the black democratic opposition and the hand behind many a tortured acti.\;st and imprisoned leader, Vorster and his intelligence chief, 

Hendrik Yan den Bergh, had sen·ed as generals in the Ossewa Brand wag, 

a militant Afrikaner nationalist organization that had openly supported 

the t azis during \Vorld \Var IL* 

The group's leader, Hans van Rensburg, was an enthusiastic admirer 

of Adolf Hitler. In conversations ";th � azi leaders in 1940, van Rensburg formally offered to pro,-ide the Third Reich with hundreds of 

• Afrikaners are white, Afrikaans-speaking South Africans descended &om se''enteenthcentury Dutch, Gennan, and Huguenot settlers. They account for approximately 60 percent of South Africa's white population. 


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