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A First World War Canadian electoral campaign poster. Hun (or The Hun) is a term that originally refers to the nomadic Huns of the Migration Period.Beginning in World War I it became an often used pejorative seen on war posters by Western Allied powers and the basis for a criminal characterization of the Germans as barbarians with no respect for civilization and humanitarian values having ...
Querschlag – Slanting strike, offset blow; or an element of a non-German race; Quisling – A pejorative meaning "traitor" during World War II, commonly used as an insult directed at a citizen who collaborated with the Germans in one of the conquered nations. The term was taken from Vidkun Quisling, the pro-Nazi Norwegian leader.
Führer (/ ˈ f jʊər ər / FURE-ər; German: ⓘ, spelled Fuehrer when the umlaut is unavailable) is a German word meaning "leader" or "guide".As a political title, it is strongly associated with Adolf Hitler, the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945.
The Nazis considered that the Nordic race was the most prominent race of the German people, but that there were other sub-races that were commonly found amongst the German people such as the Alpine race population who were identified by, among other features, their lower stature, their stocky builds, their flatter noses, and their higher ...
kaput (German spelling: kaputt), out-of-order, broken, dead; nix, from German nix, dialectal variant of nichts (nothing) Scheiße, an expression and euphemism meaning "shit", usually as an interjection when something goes amiss; Ur- (German prefix), original or prototypical; e.g. Ursprache, Urtext; verboten, prohibited, forbidden, banned. In ...
[5] [6] Part of the contribution to this was the similar image of the German work ethic perceived by American GIs in the postwar period: "Many West Germans are serious about their duties, keeping to their timetables, and do not enjoy many tea or coffee breaks". The German railroad system, which usually runs late, notoriously challenges this ...
Identifying human races in terms of skin colour, at least as one among several physiological characteristics, has been common since antiquity.Such divisions appeared in early modern scholarship, usually dividing humankind into four or five categories, with colour-based labels: red, yellow, black, white, and sometimes brown.
In the English language, nigger is a racial slur directed at black people.Starting in the 1990s, [1] references to nigger have been increasingly replaced by the euphemistic contraction "the N-word", notably in cases where nigger is mentioned but not directly used. [2]