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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 ...
Kugelblitz (the German term for ball lightning), in theoretical physics: a concentration of light so intense that it forms an event horizon and becomes self-trapped; Rocks and minerals like Quartz (German spelling: Quarz), Gneiss and Feldspar (originally Gneis and Feldspat respectively), Meerschaum; Reststrahlen (lit. "residual rays")
Handsome Toni Anton Malloth: Hangman [13] Reinhard Heydrich: Himmler's Evil Genius Reinhard Heydrich: Hyena of Auschwitz Irma Grese: Queen of Buchenwald [14] [15] Ilse Koch: Red Witch of Buchenwald [16] [17] Ilse Koch: Uncle Mengele [18] Josef Mengele: Witch of Buchenwald Ilse Koch: Wolf [4] Gustav Wagner: Young Evil God of Death [19] Reinhard ...
The term "Talahon" does not have a fixed definition, but it is believed to derive from the Arabic phrase "taeal huna," (Arabic: تعال هنا) meaning "come here," or from the song "Ta3al Lahon" by Syrian-German [1] rapper Hassan, released in 2022.
Landser – historical term for a German infantryman; slang: "Schütze Arsch". Landwehr – Territorial Army, a type of militia. Lastensegler – cargo glider; Latrinenparole – "latrine talk", rumor. laufende Nummer – serial number. Lebensraum – "living space", or in Hitler-speak the minimum space the German people needed to live in.
Germans were characterised as rapacious Huns during the First World War.This followed the Kaiser's Hun speech during the Boxer rebellion. [1]Stereotypes of Germans include real or imagined characteristics of the German people used by people who see the German people as a single and homogeneous group.
The term was commonly used in Hollywood during the 1920s to describe Rudolph Valentino. [3] As an idiom it is both lexically and sequentially fixed. [ 4 ] Alan Axelrod writes that "tall, dark and handsome" is often assumed as a compliment, but notes that Eric Partridge wrote that it is actually a mild insult, given the term originates from ...
Aal - eel; aalen - to stretch out; aalglatt - slippery; Aas - carrion/rotting carcass; aasen - to be wasteful; Aasgeier - vulture; ab - from; abarbeiten - to work off/slave away