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    29 days ago

    Explanation: The jingoistic fervor of the USA in WW1 spawned many popular songs, as the US had not experienced the past three brutal years of trench warfare personally. One imagines that hearing about “the Hun” in every other song of the period got old for people living through it.

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        The incompetent and bombastic German Emperor Wilhelm II said that German troops must be merciless “like the Hun” during the Boxer Rebellion, if memory serves. This led to widespread mockery of Imperial Germany as ‘Huns’; mockery which became more serious when war broke out.