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When Smuts Goes is a 1947 novel set in a dystopian future South Africa where Jan Smuts and the United Party are defeated by Afrikaner nationalists, who declare a new independent Boer Republic and embark on an increasingly destructive quest for apartheid. The book's concept became true a year later.

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The 620th Engineer General Service Company was a U.S. Army company in World War II intentionally composed of soldiers who were suspected of pro-Nazi sympathies. The army dumped them at a remote base to perform menial tasks. The soldiers wore different uniforms and were not allowed to have weapons.

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When Smuts Goes is a 1947 novel set in a dystopian future South Africa where Jan Smuts and the United Party are defeated by Afrikaner nationalists, who declare a new independent Boer Republic and embark on an increasingly destructive quest for apartheid. The book's concept became true a year later.	885
The 620th Engineer General Service Company was a U.S. Army company in World War II intentionally composed of soldiers who were suspected of pro-Nazi sympathies. The army dumped them at a remote base to perform menial tasks. The soldiers wore different uniforms and were not allowed to have weapons.	539