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...Yorker cartoon (by Robert Day-see cut) showed a songwriter dreaming up: Stop the Wop, Rip into Nippon, The Hun is done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Of Thee I Sing, Baby | 12/29/1941 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OCCUPIED EUROPE: Heirs to Attila | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By J. B Mcm., | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 9/25/1941 | See Source »

...Belgium three were shot for harboring a British aviator. A ten-year-old boy was reported shot for calling a Nazi a "dirty Hun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OCCUPIED EUROPE: Norway Starts Something | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: BALKAN THEATER: Too Many of Them | 5/5/1941 | See Source »

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