Word: hun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Precedents there were aplenty. In 70 A.D. Roman legions under Titus destroyed Jerusalem, slaughtered 1,100,000, sent 97,000 into slavery. Attila the Hun sacked and burned all of Northern Italy, spared Rome only after Pope Leo I appeared in the Hun camp with an eloquent plea for the Holy City. Genghis Khan butchered the people of Samarkand, razed the city...
...love scenes she is hungrily abetted by Stanio Braggiotti, who does his best with the colorless Raoul. The Nazi officers, particularly John Wengraf and Tonio Selwart, are excellent and do their best to maintain the high degree of bestiality that is the stage and screen trademark of the Dirty Hun...
...Belgium three were shot for harboring a British aviator. A ten-year-old boy was reported shot for calling a Nazi a "dirty Hun...
...dive-bombing best. One pilot, who had flown a total of 120 hours, said: "There are too many of them. We do not have the aircraft and they are destroying our airfields. The troops at the front are running out of ammunition and we can't stop the Hun by dive-bombing roads. . . . Three of our aircraft set off loaded with bombs from which the detonators had been removed in order to drop them for our sappers so they would have demolition explosives. But the planes were shot down before they could do their work." Outnumbered numerically...
...attempt to invade England and the Italian reverses in Greece and Libya mark the turning point of the war." Free Frenchman General Charles de Gaulle: "With the Hun in Paris, Bordeaux. Lille, Reims and Strasbourg, and with the Italians pretending to dictate their will to the French nation, there is nothing else to do but fight. ... To treat with the enemies, to accept their control, to cooperate with them, is to betray the fatherland...