Re: Do YOU remember mere 121 years later? [Hun Speech 1900-07-27]

[Byker]

"A. Filip" wrote in message news:anfi+e6xq9...@wp.eu...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hun_speech
> […] Wilhelm [Emperor of Germany] delivered this speech in Bremerhaven
> on 27 July 1900, addressing German troops who were departing to
> suppress the Boxer Rebellion in China. The speech was infused with
> Wilhelm's fiery and chauvinistic rhetoric and clearly expressed his
> vision of German imperial power. […]

> […] Should you encounter the enemy, he will be defeated! No quarter
> will be given! Prisoners will not be taken! Whoever falls into your
> hands is forfeited. Just as a thousand years ago the Huns under
> their King Attila made a name for themselves, one that even today
> makes them seem mighty in history and legend, may the name German
> be affirmed by you in such a way in China that no Chinese will ever
> again dare to look cross-eyed at a German. […]

In in old edition of our local newspaper, in 1921 they were still calling
Germans "Huns", three years after the war ended...