Oswald Pirow

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South African far-right politician (1890-1959)

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Oswald Pirow, QC was a South African lawyer and far-right politician who held office as minister of justice, and later minister of defence for the National and United Party, respectively.

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November 1938: Pirow being sent off in Berlin with soldiers from the Luftwaffe, to his left Wilhelm Canaris, to his right Ernst Seifert, photo from the German Federal Archives

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Oswald Pirow, QC was a South African lawyer and far-right politician who held office as minister of justice, and later minister of defence for the National and United Party, respectively. Pirow eventually left the UP upon the Second World War and joined Daniel Malan's reunited National Party, but eventually broke when Pirow founded the New Order of South Africa, a marginal fascist group that disbanded before the end of the war. A celebrated jurist, including by future President Nelson Mandela, he served the NP government as a prosecutor in the Treason Trial until his death.

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