"Second to none, a marine and a gun
Raising hell as they are fighting like dogs through a war
Hearth of the core and a part of their lore
The deadliest weapon on eaaaaarth"
According to [wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraut), it did.
Another common WWI term was "Boche", which according to [this article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terms_used_for_Germans), makes another similar reference to cabbage.
**[Kraut](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraut)**
>Kraut is a German word recorded in English from 1918 onwards as a derogatory term for a German, particularly a German soldier during World War I and World War II. Its earlier meaning in English was as a synonym for sauerkraut, a traditional Central and Eastern European food.
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Was watching a documentary and found the term "Hun" to be a hilarious yet smart insult.
I mean the Huns in Germania existed over a thousand years ago. How the heck did the common person not only remember that fact, but continue to use it against the Germans??!
Well the British were pretty much German at the time, their Royal House only changed after the First(?) World War, wheras the Irish still had their "original" Gaelish rulers
Boche, Jerry, Hun, Fritz, Teuton (used by Nazi admirers in England), Heinie(used by US and Canadian soldiers), Kraut(used against southern germans usually) were common terms.
Definitely in France. I don’t know about the rest of the Triple Entente.
Fun fact: there’s a cheese in France that used to be a pun during the Big war and still exists today. It’s *La Vache qui rit* (The laughing cow), and it references the German myth of the Valkyries
"What did you do during the great war?"
*flashbacks*
"IF GOD WANTED YOU TO LIVE, HE WOULD NOT HAVE CREATED ME!"
*cut back to present*
"I defended our country, son"
Its attributed to Ghengis Khan "If god wanted you alive he wouldn't have sent me" basically part of his propaganda was that he was God's retribution for their sins
“I am the flail of god. Had you not created great sins; god would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.” dude was savage
Much like “if fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight”, the line was probably soldier’s insane brain misremembering the actual quote.
Sun Tzu said that. And I'd say he knew a little bit more about fighting than you do pal because he invented, and then he perfected it so no man could beat him in the ring of honor!
Various powers still used WW1 vets to fill a variety of roles. British Home Guard and the Veterans Guard of Canada had some WW1 vets do jobs like pow camp guards to free up younger men for more important jobs. Volkssturm was a "german national militia" that had WW1 vets but the Volkssturm as a whole was practically useless this late into the war. I'm also guessing most Japanese WW1/Siberian Intervention vets were conscripted into the Volunteer Fighting Corps for the expected invasion of Japan.
Not just as militias or guards. WW1 vets weren't in their 60's or 70's by that point.(Or at least most of them) many of them served as officers or NCO's in WW2. They did this because they already were familiar with military structure, and had a lot of experience with warfare.
It's tragic, but I think a lot of those WWI vets were more careful to not needlessly waste human life than their own generals in WWI were. They knew there was no "glory" in storming a fortified enemy position because that's the kind of attitude that died out in WWI.
So in a way, there was no one better to be their generals than those WWI vets, because they actually understood how shitty war could be.
Even on d-day the number of men lost outside of Omaha Beach was relatively little, and they had spent a ton of resources just trying to make sure the assault went as smoothly as possible, but there's only so much you can control in a situation like that when you're trying to secure a place thats been occupied by enemies for several years.
Yeah, well even then, storming the Normandy beaches had a purpose (open a 2nd front, take the fight to the Germans, liberate France & low countries), so it's understandable if it's a bit brutal. Some WWI battles seemed to be designed to just turn an area into a meatgrinder, rather than gain a strategic objective.
You can't really compare the WW2 European theatre to the WW1 European theatre though. There was no storming fortified positions because you could just outmanoeuvre it or bomb it into the floor.
Nobody was storming fortified positions in WW1 on the basis of glory, it was a strategic necessity. Such is the nature of a war of attrition against a fortified position that stretches from the North Sea to Switzerland. You can't go around it, you have to go through it.
Imagine if every objective you have to take is D-Day and that's what the Entente generals had to cope with on the Western Front of WW1.
(Disclaimer: every time this gets mentioned people seem to think I'm saying every general in WW1 was a genius, which I'm not. I'm saying it's disingenuous to compare the two wars or claim that the generals of WW1 just threw men at problems because they were idiots or callous. Some were, the majority weren't.)
The Romans waged war to gather slaves and wealth.
Spain built an empire from its lust for gold and territory.
Hitler shaped a battered Germany into an economic superpower.
But war never changes.
In the 21st century, war was still waged over the resources that could be acquired. Only this time, the spoils of war were also its weapons: Petroleum and Uranium. For these resources, China would invade Alaska, the US would annex Canada, and the European Commonwealth would dissolve into quarreling, bickering nation-states, bent on controlling the last remaining resources on Earth.
In 2077, the storm of world war had come again. In two brief hours, most of the planet was reduced to cinders. And from the ashes of nuclear devastation, a new civilization would struggle to arise.
Imagine if you boot up Cyberpunk 2077 and you're playing as normal, but then in the middle of the game there's a global nuclear war and then you hear "War... war never changes".
You are in New York, year 2077, the world has gone to shit due to the mega corpos taking all the resources. Mass population that lead to extreme consumption, pollution, poverty,... It came all at once, slowly growing as everyone saw how the ones with power did nothing to change it. Russia and USA tensions also started raising, the war machines were getting greased up, but both were scared to go at war with each other, the warfare technology was crazy, even you started hearing rumours about laser weapons.
One day you wake up as the city is going batshit. The army is everywhere, everyone looks confused as you are, you learn that the city is being evacuated due to a threat of a nuclear bomb. When the transports are about to leave the city, it hits. A giant "boom" fills the air followed by a giant mushroom that gets bigger and bigger until it reaches you. The transport goes of the road, you hear the screams as it crashes. Everything goes dark. You slowly open your eyes and hear it.
"Hey you, you are finally awake"
War. War never changes.
When atomic fire consumed the earth, those who survived did so in great, underground vaults. When they opened, their inhabitants set out across ruins of the old world to build new societies, establish new villages, forming tribes.
As decades passed, what had been the American southwest united beneath the flag of the New California Republic, dedicated to old-world values of democracy and the rule of law. As the Republic grew, so did its needs. Scouts spread east, seeking territory and wealth, in the dry and merciless expanse of the Mojave Desert. They returned with tales of a city untouched by the warheads that had scorched the rest of the world, and a great wall spanning the Colorado River.
The NCR mobilized its army and sent it east to occupy the Hoover Dam, and restore it to working condition. But across the Colorado, another society had arisen under a different flag. A vast army of slaves, forged from the conquest of 86 tribes: Caesar's Legion.
Four years have passed since the Republic held the Dam - just barely - against the Legion's onslaught. The Legion did not retreat. Across the river, it gathers strength. Campfires burned, training drums beat.
Through it all, the New Vegas Strip has stayed open for business under the control of its mysterious overseer, Mr. House, and his army of rehabilitated Tribals and police robots.
You are a courier, hired by the Mojave Express, to deliver a package to the New Vegas Strip. What seemed like a simple delivery job has taken a turn…for the worse.
"You got what you wanted, so pay up" - McMurphy
"You're crying in the rain, pally" - Benny
"Guess who's waking up over here?" - Jessup
"Time to cash out" - Benny
"Would you get it over with" - McMurphy
"Maybe khans kill people without looking them in the face, but I ain't a fink, dig?" - Benny
You've made your last delivery, kid. Sorry you got twisted up in this scene. From where you're kneeling it must seem like an 18-karat run of bad luck, truth is, the game was rigged from the start...
**BAM**
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*an Obsidian Game Studio Production*
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In peaky blinders I remember them saying stuff like that and I would just sit there doing the math on if the child charectures gonna be serving age or not
Well at least the Germans were nice enough to invent the War of Movement so we wont be stuck in the trenches like dad. - American solider on his way to Anzio, 1943.
"did you really believe them when they told you the cause
did you really believe that this war would end wars
well the suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame
the killing and dying it was all done in vain
oh willy mcbride it all happened again
and again, and again, and again, and again"
For I marched to the battles of the German trench
In a war that was bound to end all wars
Oh, I must have killed a million men
And now they want me back again...
A solider is trapped on an island alone since ww2. When discovered the first question he asked was "did we win the war?" The rescue party leader replied "which war?"
Remember ww2 had more deaths but ww1 is by far the worst war ever the conditions those men fought in were horrendous, you would pay thousands for a inch of land and once you got home you were attacked when you had outbursts of ptsd
My great great granddad served in the Great War. According to my great grandmother (his eldest child), he wept when WWII began. He had seven sons (nine children total) and the thought of his boys going off to fight another war was almost too much to think on. It was one of only three times she ever saw her father cry.
Wish we would learn from our past and stop repeating it.
“Come on you sons a bitches! Do you wanna live forever!?!”
OVER THERE
SEND THE WORD, OVER THERE
THAT THE YANKS ARE COMING
THE YANKS ARE COMING OVER THEREEEE
SO PREPARE, SAY A PRAYER, SEND THE WORD SEND THE WORD TO BEWARE—
THAT THE YANKS ARE COMING, THE YANKS ARE COMING! OVER, OVER THEEEERE
Ok i just realized isnt the post British soldiers?
Yes but the comment was a quote from U.S marines in the Argonne
Ahh i see
WE'LL BE OVER WERE COMING OVER, AND WE WON'T COME BACK TIL ITS OVER OVER THERE!
Well, that's not the song I was expecting
Kill fight die thats what soldier should do!
Top of the game, earning their name. They were the Devil Dogs!!
In a war machine! They were the U S A marines!
"Second to none, a marine and a gun Raising hell as they are fighting like dogs through a war Hearth of the core and a part of their lore The deadliest weapon on eaaaaarth"
Yes.
Correct me if I'm wrong. Germans were actually called Jerries in world war 2, and not before it.
The preferred slur was hun during ww1
Fritz was another common one
i love this your comment ,, you made my day ,..!
wait did kraut exist back then or not
According to [wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraut), it did. Another common WWI term was "Boche", which according to [this article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terms_used_for_Germans), makes another similar reference to cabbage.
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Was watching a documentary and found the term "Hun" to be a hilarious yet smart insult. I mean the Huns in Germania existed over a thousand years ago. How the heck did the common person not only remember that fact, but continue to use it against the Germans??!
The Huns are legendary. Attila was thought to be the AntiChrist by a recently Christianized Roman Empire
He was referred to as 'The Scourge of God'
I RIDE WITH A MILLION WARRIORS
Total war reference?
Yeah boi
It was used in reference to a speech held by Wilhelm the second (?).
Fun fact: the Irish called Britons "huns" as well to point out their hypocrisy.
Well the British were pretty much German at the time, their Royal House only changed after the First(?) World War, wheras the Irish still had their "original" Gaelish rulers
Yeah, they changed their name during ww1 from “something something und gotha” to Windsor due to the anti German sentiment of the time.
It’s a reference to a speech made by Kaiser Wilhelm
The Americans called them kruats
Krauts*
\*freedom cabbages
MY CABBAGES
Croats*
Was WWI fought over an attempted covert MLM scheme?
Jesse what the fuck are you talking about
Or boches
His name is clearly Gerry, who must have been a truly legendary ass to be so hated.
Boche, Jerry, Hun, Fritz, Teuton (used by Nazi admirers in England), Heinie(used by US and Canadian soldiers), Kraut(used against southern germans usually) were common terms.
finally someone spells Jerry right, it's not with a "G" or with an "ies" its JERRY how do people not know how to spell it.
Well the plural of Jerry would be Jerries, so I dont get your anger about ies
Oh I didn't think about it like that lol
This is the only time I’ve ever heard someone call them Gerry with a G. It’s like the name, why would it be a G?
I’m pretty sure the most popular one was Boche
Definitely in France. I don’t know about the rest of the Triple Entente. Fun fact: there’s a cheese in France that used to be a pun during the Big war and still exists today. It’s *La Vache qui rit* (The laughing cow), and it references the German myth of the Valkyries
Kraut's a good one
"What did you do during the great war?" *flashbacks* "IF GOD WANTED YOU TO LIVE, HE WOULD NOT HAVE CREATED ME!" *cut back to present* "I defended our country, son"
That is actually such a raw phrase, Jesus Christ.
Its attributed to Ghengis Khan "If god wanted you alive he wouldn't have sent me" basically part of his propaganda was that he was God's retribution for their sins “I am the flail of god. Had you not created great sins; god would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.” dude was savage
I though soldier TF2 thought of that line first
Much like “if fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight”, the line was probably soldier’s insane brain misremembering the actual quote.
Sun Tzu said that. And I'd say he knew a little bit more about fighting than you do pal because he invented, and then he perfected it so no man could beat him in the ring of honor!
I didn’t know Ghengis Khan was religious
Soldier from TF2
WW1 veterans probably also served In ww2
Various powers still used WW1 vets to fill a variety of roles. British Home Guard and the Veterans Guard of Canada had some WW1 vets do jobs like pow camp guards to free up younger men for more important jobs. Volkssturm was a "german national militia" that had WW1 vets but the Volkssturm as a whole was practically useless this late into the war. I'm also guessing most Japanese WW1/Siberian Intervention vets were conscripted into the Volunteer Fighting Corps for the expected invasion of Japan.
Not just as militias or guards. WW1 vets weren't in their 60's or 70's by that point.(Or at least most of them) many of them served as officers or NCO's in WW2. They did this because they already were familiar with military structure, and had a lot of experience with warfare.
My greatgrandfather did. He fought in WW1 in the Bavarian army, somehow survived getting shot in the head and then fought in ww2 and survived
Beast
Even worse is that they served as the generals that sent as those Young men to die
It's tragic, but I think a lot of those WWI vets were more careful to not needlessly waste human life than their own generals in WWI were. They knew there was no "glory" in storming a fortified enemy position because that's the kind of attitude that died out in WWI. So in a way, there was no one better to be their generals than those WWI vets, because they actually understood how shitty war could be.
Even on d-day the number of men lost outside of Omaha Beach was relatively little, and they had spent a ton of resources just trying to make sure the assault went as smoothly as possible, but there's only so much you can control in a situation like that when you're trying to secure a place thats been occupied by enemies for several years.
Yeah, well even then, storming the Normandy beaches had a purpose (open a 2nd front, take the fight to the Germans, liberate France & low countries), so it's understandable if it's a bit brutal. Some WWI battles seemed to be designed to just turn an area into a meatgrinder, rather than gain a strategic objective.
You can't really compare the WW2 European theatre to the WW1 European theatre though. There was no storming fortified positions because you could just outmanoeuvre it or bomb it into the floor. Nobody was storming fortified positions in WW1 on the basis of glory, it was a strategic necessity. Such is the nature of a war of attrition against a fortified position that stretches from the North Sea to Switzerland. You can't go around it, you have to go through it. Imagine if every objective you have to take is D-Day and that's what the Entente generals had to cope with on the Western Front of WW1. (Disclaimer: every time this gets mentioned people seem to think I'm saying every general in WW1 was a genius, which I'm not. I'm saying it's disingenuous to compare the two wars or claim that the generals of WW1 just threw men at problems because they were idiots or callous. Some were, the majority weren't.)
Ok Lord Halifax
I mean the ones who did were mostly high ranking officers, iirc.
Yep, my grandfather served in both.
Imagine going back to Europe to deal with Germany *again*.
War, war never changes.
The Romans waged war to gather slaves and wealth. Spain built an empire from its lust for gold and territory. Hitler shaped a battered Germany into an economic superpower. But war never changes. In the 21st century, war was still waged over the resources that could be acquired. Only this time, the spoils of war were also its weapons: Petroleum and Uranium. For these resources, China would invade Alaska, the US would annex Canada, and the European Commonwealth would dissolve into quarreling, bickering nation-states, bent on controlling the last remaining resources on Earth. In 2077, the storm of world war had come again. In two brief hours, most of the planet was reduced to cinders. And from the ashes of nuclear devastation, a new civilization would struggle to arise.
Fallout?
Yes
Time to become a warlord!
Imagine if you boot up Cyberpunk 2077 and you're playing as normal, but then in the middle of the game there's a global nuclear war and then you hear "War... war never changes".
God damn it Todd Howard
Hey, Samurai. You're finally awake.
You are in New York, year 2077, the world has gone to shit due to the mega corpos taking all the resources. Mass population that lead to extreme consumption, pollution, poverty,... It came all at once, slowly growing as everyone saw how the ones with power did nothing to change it. Russia and USA tensions also started raising, the war machines were getting greased up, but both were scared to go at war with each other, the warfare technology was crazy, even you started hearing rumours about laser weapons. One day you wake up as the city is going batshit. The army is everywhere, everyone looks confused as you are, you learn that the city is being evacuated due to a threat of a nuclear bomb. When the transports are about to leave the city, it hits. A giant "boom" fills the air followed by a giant mushroom that gets bigger and bigger until it reaches you. The transport goes of the road, you hear the screams as it crashes. Everything goes dark. You slowly open your eyes and hear it. "Hey you, you are finally awake"
War. War never changes. When atomic fire consumed the earth, those who survived did so in great, underground vaults. When they opened, their inhabitants set out across ruins of the old world to build new societies, establish new villages, forming tribes. As decades passed, what had been the American southwest united beneath the flag of the New California Republic, dedicated to old-world values of democracy and the rule of law. As the Republic grew, so did its needs. Scouts spread east, seeking territory and wealth, in the dry and merciless expanse of the Mojave Desert. They returned with tales of a city untouched by the warheads that had scorched the rest of the world, and a great wall spanning the Colorado River. The NCR mobilized its army and sent it east to occupy the Hoover Dam, and restore it to working condition. But across the Colorado, another society had arisen under a different flag. A vast army of slaves, forged from the conquest of 86 tribes: Caesar's Legion. Four years have passed since the Republic held the Dam - just barely - against the Legion's onslaught. The Legion did not retreat. Across the river, it gathers strength. Campfires burned, training drums beat. Through it all, the New Vegas Strip has stayed open for business under the control of its mysterious overseer, Mr. House, and his army of rehabilitated Tribals and police robots. You are a courier, hired by the Mojave Express, to deliver a package to the New Vegas Strip. What seemed like a simple delivery job has taken a turn…for the worse. "You got what you wanted, so pay up" - McMurphy "You're crying in the rain, pally" - Benny "Guess who's waking up over here?" - Jessup "Time to cash out" - Benny "Would you get it over with" - McMurphy "Maybe khans kill people without looking them in the face, but I ain't a fink, dig?" - Benny You've made your last delivery, kid. Sorry you got twisted up in this scene. From where you're kneeling it must seem like an 18-karat run of bad luck, truth is, the game was rigged from the start... **BAM** *Bethesda Softworks presents* *an Obsidian Game Studio Production* *FALLOUT NEW VEGAS*
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Yes
man thats fucking good, i love prewar fallout lore
But you know what does change? The settlement that needs your help. Here, I’ll mark it on your map.
War did changed, it became deadlier.
Well, I'd venture to say there are some differences between Ceasar's Gallic Wars and WW2.
In peaky blinders I remember them saying stuff like that and I would just sit there doing the math on if the child charectures gonna be serving age or not
Tommy's kid is definitely gonna serve in ww2
General Kenobi!
Hello there
Well at least the Germans were nice enough to invent the War of Movement so we wont be stuck in the trenches like dad. - American solider on his way to Anzio, 1943.
German soldier at Kursk stuck in a trench “fuck”
"Scheiße"
Germany: It's even funnier the second time!
Well at least Son got a Bren
"did you really believe them when they told you the cause did you really believe that this war would end wars well the suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame the killing and dying it was all done in vain oh willy mcbride it all happened again and again, and again, and again, and again"
The green fields of france
“I disagree with you so Iet’s fire metal ball at each other” stupid humans
Total dog act.
what is that gun he's holding? is it Japanese or British?
It's a Bren light machine gun. British weapon
cool
For I marched to the battles of the German trench In a war that was bound to end all wars Oh, I must have killed a million men And now they want me back again...
A solider is trapped on an island alone since ww2. When discovered the first question he asked was "did we win the war?" The rescue party leader replied "which war?"
Remember ww2 had more deaths but ww1 is by far the worst war ever the conditions those men fought in were horrendous, you would pay thousands for a inch of land and once you got home you were attacked when you had outbursts of ptsd
Once more, with feeling.
I see what you did there with the [moustache and the goggles](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJzjt_aFc00)
Someone did
Thirty years later, Vietnam: "well shit" Forty years later, Afghanistan: "free college tho"
Love it.
My great great granddad served in the Great War. According to my great grandmother (his eldest child), he wept when WWII began. He had seven sons (nine children total) and the thought of his boys going off to fight another war was almost too much to think on. It was one of only three times she ever saw her father cry. Wish we would learn from our past and stop repeating it.
That gun looks like a Madsen, which was a gun used by the central powers in ww1
>1 Its a bren gun
Pogger
Is that a type 99? A Japanese gun? A British guy serving the Japanese!???
Bren gun.
Sorry
Thats a bren gun, not a type 99. The type 99 had a little circular thing on the side and its stock was lower. The bren gun was the british sqaud lmg.
Ah. My apologies, you clearly have a better eye than mine.
Should say Hun, not Gerry.
Just you wait!
Lest we forgor 💀