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Sep 2024
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Clement Manyathela speaks to Prof. Dirk Kotze, Professor of Political Science at UNISA about the leadership of one of the most powerful and notorious dictators of the 20th century Adolf Hitler who was the leader of the Nazi Party and initiated the Second World War.

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