Encyclopedia - Hun 'Hun' was a derogatory nickname used primarily by the British and Americans - officers rather than men - during the First World War to describe the German Army, e.g. "the Huns attacked at dawn
WorldWarⅠKaiser Wilhelm Ⅱ's speech to a German contingent of the Western expedition corps to quell the so-called 'Boxer Rebellion' in 1900 and develop the imperialist drive for colonies further, is today remembered chiefly as an example of his penchant for sabre-rattling rhetoric. The Kaiser...
(slang,derogatory,Britain)AGerman(popular in the media since World War I) (slang,derogatory,Britain,Ireland)AProtestant. Related terms Hunnic Synonyms (derogatory term for a German):Fritz,Jerry,Kraut (derogatory term for a Protestant):Prod,Proddy,orangie,Orangeman ...
Moore Gregory, 2001, "The Super Hun and the Super State: Allied Propaganda and German Philosophy During First World War", German Life and Letters, vol. 54, no. 4, pp. 310-330.Moore, Gregory. (2001). The Super-Hun and the Super-State: Allied Propaganda and German Philosophy during the...
1.(Peoples) a member of any of several Asiatic nomadic peoples speaking Mongoloid or Turkic languages who dominated much of Asia and E Europe from before 300 bc, invading the Roman Empire in the 4th and 5th centuries ad 2.informal(esp in World War I) a derogatory name for aGerman2 ...
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Communicators, unlike most military leaders, understood World War I was a totally new, mechanized, mass conflict. Populations must be mobilized, “taught” to hate and fight the evil enemy, respond emotionally to atrocities, even if invented or exaggerated. Opinion would be industrialized following ...
Wilhelm II’s ‘Hun Speech’ and Its Alleged Resemiotization During World War I Andreas Musolff University of East Anglia, UK Abstract Kaiser Wilhelm II’s speech to a German contingent of the Western expedition corp...
Halt the Hun! - Halt the Hun! Late World War One Western Front Skirmish Rules Halt the Hun! is a relatively quick, simple skirmish game
(they were known in China asHanorHiong-nu). Figurative sense of "reckless destroyer of beauty" is from 1806. Applied to the German in World War I by their enemies because of stories of atrocities, but the nickname originally was urged on German soldiers bound for China by Kaiser Wilhelm ...