The only way to combat Nazi activities in mandated South West Africa, the Cape Argus declared editorially, “would now appear to be the institution of an orderly purge which would banish, lock, stock and barrel, all Nazi organizations, including young people’s groups, and send back to Germany the agents deliberately imported to control German life.”
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