The impact of the Second World War on Namibia

Abstract

This paper should be read as a prospectus for a study on the impact of the Second World War on Namibia. It isolates and abductively suggests possible linkages between a number of broad areas of enquiry: the role of Nazism in Namibia; the establishment of a system for recruiting black volunteers to serve in the South African Defence Force (SADF); the operation of this recruitment system; the reasons for its premature closure and discharge of volunteers; and, a conclusion assessing some post‐war implications of this experience, especially with regard to ‘political consciousness’.