It was Churchill's overall impression of the German nation as aggressors on the European mainland which shaped his "wary" stance (not hatred) concerning them. He had studied the aggression of the Franco-Prussian War, participated at the highest level in the First World War, and now was now embroiled in the Second.

One must remember that the Boers in South Africa were not "Germans" per se, but german dialect speaking descendants of a Dutch splinter group of the Dutch Reform Church, who had moved to south Africa’s Cape so as to escape religious persecution and to make money supplying Dutch ships with fresh vegetables and meats as they rounded the horn on their way to and from the East Indies.

In the 18th Century another splinter group of French Huguenots joined them in the area. So when the young Churchill went to serve in the "Second Boer War" at the end of the 19th Century, he wasn’t fighting against "Germans", he was fighting a mix of Dutch and French settlers who had split off from their own nations, speaking an "Africaner" dialect which was neither German nor Dutch anymore.

The Boer's attitude toward racial inferiors was a fore runner of the Nazi racial ladder, and held on well into the twentieth Century with apartide in South Africa. Not bad things to dislike overall.

They (Boers) were carrying German weapons (the Mauser rifle for example), but not supplied by Germany directly. They also carried Winchesters and Remingtons. Churchill himself carried and dearly loved his own Mauser "broomhandle" semi-automatic pistol (C-96), since Mauser simply made some of the best weapons of the moment.

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Happy Trails,
Clint.