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74-398: Boche may refer to: Boche (slur) , a pejorative term for Germans People [ edit ] Aurélien Boche (born 1981), French footballer Bruno Boche (1897–1972), German field hockey player Robert M. Boche (1921–2004), American politician See also [ edit ] Boch (disambiguation) Boce (disambiguation) , for

148-540: A 1916 article in the New York Times magazine Current History , the origin is as follows: Boche is an abbreviation of caboche , (compare bochon , an abbreviation of cabochon ). This is a recognized French word used familiarly for "head," especially a big, thick head, ("slow-pate"). It is derived from the Latin word caput and the suffix oceus . Boche seems to have been used first in

222-471: A German pet form of Friedrich, was popular in both World War I and World War II . The Americans and Canadians referred to Germans, especially German soldiers, as Heinies , from a diminutive of the common German male proper name Heinrich. For example, in the film 1941 the Slim Pickens character calls a German officer " Mr Hynee Kraut! " Heinie is also a colloquial term for buttocks, in use since

296-659: A German. The theme of Hunnic savagery was then developed in a speech of August Bebel in the Reichstag in which he recounted details of the cruelty of the German expedition which were taken from soldiers' letters home, styled the Hunnenbriefe (letters from the Huns). The Kaiser's speech was widely reported in the European press at that time. The term "Hun" from this speech was later used for

370-450: A TV mini-series, Die Piefke-Saga , about Germans on holiday in Tyrol . Sometimes the alteration "Piefkinese" is used. Some Austrians use the playful term "Piefkinesisch" (Pief-Chinese) to refer to German spoken in a distinctly northern German – that is, not Austrian – accent. The term Marmeladinger originated in the trenches of World War I. It is derived from the German word "Marmelade", which

444-502: A castle (named Carlsburg after Charles XI) there; this fortified structure was meant to protect, as well as control shipping heading for Bremen. Finally, in 1827, the city of Bremen under Bürgermeister Johann Smidt bought the territories at the mouth of the Weser from the Kingdom of Hanover . Bremen sought this territory to retain its share of Germany's overseas trade, which was threatened by

518-465: A heavy load of freight traffic from and to the seaport, mostly new cars, containers and food. In 2020, Bremerhaven had a bus network with 19 bus routes operated by BREMERHAVEN BUS. Two of the bus routes are night routes that only run on weekends. In addition, there is the Schnellbus-Line S , which serves selected stops and is therefore faster. BREMERHAVEN BUS operates up to 87 regular buses through

592-800: A lengthy renovation. It features Arctic wildlife, both terrestrial and marine. The latest addition is the Klimahaus from 2009, simulating travel adventure along the 8th line of longitude and dealing with climate issues. Two gazebos can be found on top of the Atlantic Hotel Sail City and the Radar Tower . Another tourist spot is the Fischereihafen (fishing port) in Geestemünde which also houses an aquarium (the Atlanticum). The Lloyd Werft shipyard

666-513: A person through a characteristic item or action). Germans would conversely call Austrians Kamerad Schnürschuh "comrade lace-up shoe" because the Austrian infantry boots used laces while the German boots did not. This term has survived, but it is rarely used. In Shanghainese , a German can be colloquially called a Jiamen (茄門/茄门), which is an adaptation of the English word "German". This word carries

740-459: A reason would be discrimination, but not ethnic discrimination, since "East German" is not an ethnicity. The term Kartoffel (German for potato) is a derogatory slang term for Germans without migratory roots. In the 19th century it was used to describe areas of Germany in a need of eating potatoes like "potatosaxons". Gastarbeiter used the term "potatoeater" for Germans, while "spaghettieater" meant migrant Italians and "kebabeaters" Turks. Today

814-528: A somewhat negative meaning of a stereotypical German being proud, withdrawn, cold and serious. Today, this phrase, when pronounced as "Ga-Men", can mean "disdainful, indifferent, or uninterested in someone or something". Among the Mapuche-Huilliche of Futahuillimapu in southern Chile German settlers are known as leupe lonko meaning blond heads. During the Lapland War between Finland and Germany,

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888-556: A treaty between the two cities (as mentioned in Section 8 of Bremerhaven's municipal constitution) makes Bremerhaven responsible for the municipal administration of those parts owned directly by Bremen. The port of Bremerhaven is the sixteenth-largest container port in the world and the fourth-largest in Europe with 4.9 million  twenty-foot equivalent units  (TEU) of cargo handled in 2007 and 5,5 million in 2015. The container terminal

962-512: A year. The stereotype of a sauerkraut-eating German appears in Jules Verne 's depiction of the evil, German industrialist Schultze, who is an avid sauerkraut eater in The Begum's Fortune . Schultze's enemy is an Alsatian who hates sauerkraut but pretends to love it to win his enemy's confidence. The rock music genre krautrock has been commonplace in music journalism since the early 1970s and

1036-425: Is a fruit preserve . While Austrian infantry rations included butter and lard as spread , German troops had to make do with cheaper ersatz "Marmelade". They disdainfully called it Heldenbutter "hero's butter" or Hindenburgfett . This earned them ridicule from their Austrian allies who would call them Marmeladebrüder (jam brothers) or Marmeladinger (- inger being an Austrian derivational suffix describing

1110-774: Is derived from the French name for the traditional Prussian military helmets worn by German soldiers from the 1840s until World War I . In modern French Sign Language the word for Germany continues to be an index finger pointed to the top of the forehead, simulating the Pickelhaube. Chleuh derives from the name of the Chleuh , a Berber ethnic group in Morocco . It also denotes the absence of words beginning in Schl- in French. The term Ossi , derived from

1184-411: Is derived from this. First came to prominence in the English 1983 television show Auf Wiedersehen, Pet . It was a term used by the English and Irish when referring to Germans without them knowing it was them being talked about. The Austrian ethnic slur for a German is Piefke . Like its Bavarian counterpart Saupreiß (literally: sow -Prussian), the term Piefke historically characterized only

1258-497: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Boche (slur) There are many terms for the Germans . In English the demonym , or noun, is German . During the early Renaissance , "German" implied that the person spoke German as a native language. Until the German unification , people living in what is now Germany were named for

1332-665: Is more widely adopted to describe a sturdy and stupid man. Tudro is mainly used in Northern Italy. Tuder is the Lombard usage of the word. Bremerhaven Bremerhaven was founded in 1827 as a seaport for Bremen , and it remains one of the busiest ports in the country. It was historically rivalled by Geestemünde  [ de ] on the opposite side of the Geeste, which belonged to Hanover (and later Prussia ). Geestemünde united with neighbouring Lehe  [ de ] to form

1406-525: Is of English invention. Nazi , a shortening of Nationalsozialist (National Socialist) (attested since 1903, as a shortening of national-sozial , since in German the nati- in national is approximately pronounced Nazi . A homonymic term Nazi was in use before the rise of the NSDAP in Bavaria as a pet name for Ignaz and (by extension from that) a derogatory word for a backwards peasant, which may have influenced

1480-412: Is renowned for building and renovating large cruise liners, for example Norway . Every five years Sail Bremerhaven is held, a large sailing convention that attracts tall ships from all over the world. The last time it was held was in 2015 with over 270 vessels and 3,500 crew members. In 2011 Bremerhaven set the record for the largest ever parade of boats, with 327 vessels in the parade. This record

1554-461: Is served by regional express trains to Hanover ( RE 8 ) and Osnabrück ( RE 9 ) and was reconnected to Deutsche Bahn's Intercity network in late 2021, after nearly 20 years without long-distance rail services in the city. A fourth station, Bremerhaven-Speckenbüttel near the border with Langen , has been out of service since 1988. Apart from passenger traffic, the railways in Bremerhaven carry

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1628-461: Is situated on the bank of the river Weser opening to the North Sea. In the wet dock parts, accessible by two large locks, more than 2 million cars are imported or exported every year with 2,3 million in 2014. Bremerhaven imports and exports more cars than any other city in Europe. Another million tons of "High-and-Heavy" goods are handled with ro-ro ships. In 2011 a new panamax -sized lock has replaced

1702-633: Is used in Bavaria for people who were born or live in any German area north of the Danube river , or at least north of the Bavarian border. A number of other terms exist. Similar to the Polish Szwab , the term Schwab can be pejorative and be used to express Schwabenhass . Various – more or less good-humoured – nicknames are being used between the different German states or areas, such as Gelbfüßler ("Yellowfeet") for

1776-653: The American entry into World War I , which followed the Turnip Winter and had resulted in the food trade stop for Germany through neutral states. The analogy of this term is the starving soldier of World War I, who ran out of supplies for a long war-period and needed to eat wild cabbage. Before the Second World War the term was used in relation to cabbage, because anti-German boycotts and de facto trade limitations hit Germany's food imports. Early American war propaganda used

1850-652: The Bürgerschaft of Bremen . The Fischtown Pinguins , also known as REV Bremerhaven, are a professional ice hockey team in the DEL , Germany's top ice hockey league. Eisbären Bremerhaven (Polar Bears), founded 2001, is a basketball team playing in the German second-tier level league ProA . The American Football team is the Bremerhaven Seahawks which play in the German Regio Nord of the 3rd League. The Seahawks are

1924-545: The First Bremian War (March – July 1654). In the subsequent peace treaty ( First Stade Recess  [ de ] ; November 1654) Bremen had to cede Bremerlehe and its surroundings to Swedish Bremen-Verden. The latter developed plans to found a fortified town on the site, and much later this location became the present-day city of Bremerhaven. In 1672, under the reign of Charles XI of Sweden , in personal union Duke of Bremen-Verden—colonists tried unsuccessfully to erect

1998-492: The German Confederation 's Navy under Karl Rudolf Brommy . The Kingdom of Hanover founded a rival town next to Bremerhaven and called it Geestemünde (1845). Both towns grew and established the three economic pillars of trade, shipbuilding and fishing. Following inter-state negotiations at different times, Bremerhaven's boundary was several times extended at the expense of Hanoverian territory. In 1924, Geestemünde and

2072-664: The German Maritime Museum ( Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum ) by Hans Scharoun from 1975, featuring the Hansekogge , a vintage cog dating from 1380, excavated in Bremen in 1962, and the historical harbour ( Museumshafen ) with a number of museum ships , such as the Type XXI U-boat Wilhelm Bauer (a museum of its own), and the salvage tug Seefalke from 1924. The Bremerhaven Zoo reopened on 27 March 2004, after

2146-719: The Teutons (see also Teutonic and the Teutonic Order ). Pronounced [boʃ] , boche is a derisive term used by the Allies during World War I, often collectively ("the Boche" meaning "the Germans"). It is a shortened form of the French slang portmanteau alboche , itself derived from Allemand ("German") and caboche ("head" or "cabbage"). The alternative spellings "Bosch" or "Bosche" are sometimes found. According to

2220-412: The jerrycan . The name may simply be an alteration of the word German . Alternatively, Jerry may possibly be derived from the stahlhelm introduced in 1916, which was said by British soldiers to resemble a "jerry" ( chamber pot ). 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. The term came up after

2294-546: The 1897 Kaiserschleuse , then the largest lock worldwide. Bremerhaven has a temperate maritime climate ; severe frost and heat waves with temperatures above 30 °C (86 °F) are rare. On average, the city receives about 751 mm (29.6 in) of precipitation distributed throughout the year, with a slight peak in the summer months between June and August and a slightly drier season in late winter and early spring. Snow does fall in winter and early spring and, more rarely, in late autumn. However, it usually does not stay on

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2368-595: The 18th century various German-speaking peasant groups settled in Hungary in large numbers to inhabit the vast territories being depopulated during the Osman rule, they are known as Danube Swabians (Donauschwaben), though most of their forefathers have Bavarian or Thuringian roots. They settled mainly where the destruction was most severe, especially around Buda (now part of Budapest ), Danube valley and southern part of Hungary. Although they have assimilated in large parts until

2442-566: The 1920s. In German, Heini is a common colloquial term with a slightly pejorative meaning similar to "moron" or "idiot", but has a different origin. Jerry was a nickname given to Germans mostly during the Second World War by soldiers and civilians of the Allied nations, in particular by the British. The nickname was originally created during World War I . The term is the basis for the name of

2516-500: The German word Besserwisser which means Know-it-all , reflecting the stereotype that people from the Western part of Germany are arrogant. In 2010 there was a lawsuit in Germany because a job applicant was denied employment and her application was found to have the notation "Ossi" and a minus sign written on her application documents. A German court decided that denial of employment for such

2590-493: The German word Osten which means east, is used in Germany for people who were born in the area of the former German Democratic Republic . The term Wessi , derived from the German word Westen which means west, is used in Germany for people who were born or live in the old states of Germany (those that formed the Federal Republic or "West Germany" before reunification). Sometimes it is also modified to "Besserwessi", from

2664-408: The Germans by British and other Allied propaganda during the war. The comparison was helped by the spiked Pickelhaube helmet worn by German forces until 1916, which would be reminiscent of images depicting ancient warrior helmets (not necessarily that of actual historical Huns). This usage, emphasising the idea that the Germans were barbarians , was reinforced by the propaganda utilised throughout

2738-501: The Hun soldiery, plodding on like a swarm of crawling locusts." During this time American President Franklin D. Roosevelt also referred to the German people in this way, saying that an Allied invasion into Southern France would surely "be successful and of great assistance to Eisenhower in driving the Huns from France." British soldiers employed a variety of epithets for the Germans. Fritz ,

2812-696: The Hungarians siding with the Habsburgs. There are multiple theories about where it came from, such as being a strange concatenation of the German term "Lauf Hans!" (Run Hans!) or the French term Le Blanc (the white one), it might also be a reference to the Hungarian word lobonc which referred to the large, common wig, which used to be common in the Vienna court at the time. Now Labanc is exclusively used for Austrians, but becomes rare in usage as there are no tensions between

2886-698: The Prussian music corps in the parade in Austria following the Prussian victory of the Austro-Prussian War in 1866. The second theory suggests an origin in the Second Schleswig War in 1864, where Prussians and Austrians were allies. A Prussian soldier with the name Piefke and a stereotypically Prussian gruff and snappy manner made such a negative impression on his Austrian comrades that the term came to refer to all Prussians. Since Prussia no longer exists,

2960-538: The US military units and their personnel were assigned to the city's Carl Schurz Kaserne. One of the longest based US units at the Kaserne was a US military radio and TV station, an "Amerikanischer Soldatensender", AFN Bremerhaven , which broadcast for 48 years. In 1993, the Kaserne was vacated by the US military and returned to the German government. In 1947 the city became part of the federal state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen and

3034-515: The beginning of the 20th century, they maintained strong cultural identity up to date. These people, and through them German people in general are called svábok (plural), having a hint of pejorative nature. The term labanc came into use during Rákóczi's War of Independence . It was specifically used for the soldiers fighting for the Austrian/German soldiers of the Habsburg rulers, as well as for

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3108-453: The city government and various interest groups. Bremerhaven has three active passenger rail stations: Bremerhaven Hauptbahnhof in the city centre, Bremerhaven-Lehe north of the centre and Bremerhaven-Wulsdorf in the southern part of the city. All three stations are served by hourly Bremen S-Bahn trains on the line RS 2 as well as regional services to Cuxhaven and Buxtehude on the line RB 33 . Additionally, Bremerhaven Hauptbahnhof

3182-417: The city of Wesermünde  [ de ] in 1924, and Bremerhaven was itself annexed to Wesermünde in 1939, but the entire conurbation was restored to Bremen in 1947. The town was founded in 1827, but neighboring settlements such as Lehe were in the vicinity as early as the 12th century, and Geestendorf was "mentioned in documents of the ninth century". These tiny villages were built on small islands in

3256-592: The city was destroyed in the Allied air bombing of Bremen in World War II ; however, key parts of the port were deliberately spared by the Allied forces to provide a usable harbour for supplying the Allies after the war. All of Wesermünde, including those parts which did not previously belong to Bremerhaven, was a postwar enclave run by the United States, separate to but within the British zone of northern Germany. Most of

3330-414: The company Verkehrsgesellschaft Bremerhaven AG (VGB) . There are numerous regional buses operated by other companies that depart from Bremerhaven Central Station, to Bad Bederkesa , Beverstedt , Hagen, Nordholz and Otterndorf . In addition, Bremerhaven is also served by buses from Flixbus . Bremerhaven had a tram service from 1881 to 1982. In its heyday, in 1949, there were six lines. The last line

3404-463: The enemy, he will be defeated! No quarter will be given! No prisoners will be taken! Those who fall into your hands are forfeit to you! Just as a thousand years ago, the Huns under their King Etzel made a name for themselves which shows them as mighty in tradition and myth, so shall you establish the name of Germans in China for 1000 years, in such a way that a Chinese will never again dare to look askance at

3478-569: The ground for long. The hottest temperature ever recorded was 35.9 °C (96.6 °F) on 20 July 2022, and the coldest was −18.6 °C (−1.5 °F) on 25 February 1956. Due to its unique geographic situation, Bremerhaven suffers from a few transportation difficulties. The city has been connected to the autobahn network since the late 1970s. The A 27 runs north–south, east of the city, connecting Bremerhaven to Bremen and Cuxhaven . Road connections to Hamburg , however, are poor. The Bundesstraße 71 and secondary roads therefore carry most of

3552-451: The heavy lorry traffic. A proposed solution is the construction of the A 22 , the so-called Küstenautobahn (or "coastal motorway"), which would link Bremerhaven to Hamburg and Wilhelmshaven / Oldenburg (using the Weser tunnel ). Roads leading to the overseas port are frequently overloaded with freight traffic, and solutions are presently being discussed, including a deep-cut road favoured by

3626-671: The heavy research icebreaker RV Polarstern . It also runs the Neumayer Station III in the Antarctic. The Fraunhofer Society Institute for Wind Energy and Energy System Technology  [ de ] maintains research laboratories in Bremerhaven for development and testing of Wind Power components. The German Maritime Museum is part of the German Leibniz Association . The Bremerhaven University of Applied Sciences  [ de ] (Hochschule Bremerhaven)

3700-479: The inhabitants of Baden . The term sváb derives from the German word "Schwaben", describing people from Swabia (ger: Schwaben). The first German-speaking people, Saxon merchants and miners, later becoming Carpathian Germans , first arrived to the Carpathian basin (then mostly under rule of the Kingdom of Hungary ) in the 12th century, their numbers and territory of settlement were limited, mainly in towns. In

3774-422: The language in such a manner that 'Kraut' and 'Krauthead' gave the Germans less dignity. In the 18th century, poor Swiss German immigrants to the US were described as Krauts because they consumed sauerkraut . Sauerkraut was also a common food served on German ships to fight scurvy , while the British used lime and got called limey . In Switzerland it was a food preserved for hard winters that could go on for half

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3848-537: The neighbouring municipality of Lehe were united to become the new city of Wesermünde, and in 1939 Bremerhaven (apart from the overseas port) was removed from the jurisdiction of Bremen and made a part of Wesermünde, then a part of the Prussian Province of Hanover . Bremerhaven was one of the important harbours of emigration in Europe. As possibly the most critical North Sea base of the Kriegsmarine , 79% of

3922-515: The people of Prussia , and not people of other Germanic states. There are two hypotheses on how the term developed; both of them suggest an origin in the 1860s. One theory suggests that the term came from the name of the popular Prussian composer Johann Gottfried Piefke , who composed some of the most iconic German military marches, for example Preußens Gloria and the Königgrätzer Marsch – particularly since Piefke and his brother conducted

3996-492: The previous war. For example in 1941, Winston Churchill said in a broadcast speech: "There are less than 70,000,000 malignant Huns, some of whom are curable and others killable, most of whom are already engaged in holding down Austrians, Czechs, Poles and the many other ancient races they now bully and pillage." Later that year Churchill referred to the invasion of the Soviet Union as "the dull, drilled, docile brutish masses of

4070-452: The region in which they lived: examples are Bavarians and Brandenburgers . Some terms are humorous or pejorative slang , and used mainly by people from other countries, although they can be used in a self-deprecating way by German people themselves. Other terms are serious or tongue-in-cheek attempts to coin words as alternatives to the ambiguous standard terms. Many pejorative terms for Germans in various countries originated during

4144-501: The second oldest team in Germany. Local association football clubs are Leher TS , SFL Bremerhaven and until 2012 FC Bremerhaven . TSV Wulsdorf and OSC Bremerhaven also have a football teams but as part of a multi-sport club . Bremerhaven is home to the Alfred Wegener Institute , a national research institute which is concerned with maritime sciences and climate and keeps a number of research vessels , amongst them

4218-477: The silting up of the Weser around the old inland port of Bremen. Bremerhaven (literally in English: Bremer Haven/Harbour ) was founded to be a haven for Bremen's merchant marine, becoming the second harbour for Bremen, despite being 50 km (31 mi) downstream. Due to trade with, and emigration to, North America, the port and the town grew quickly. In 1848, Bremerhaven became the home port of

4292-478: The so called "stiffness of their mentality". The term crucco derived from the Croatian and Slovenian kruh ("bread"). Italian soldiers invented this word during World War I when they captured some hungry Austrian-Croatian and Austrian-Slovenian soldiers who asked for "kruh". Later, during World War II, and still today, applied to all German-speaking people. Tudro designates Germans as a people lacking flexibility and fantasy, but also emotional intelligence . It

4366-424: The swampy estuary. In 1381, the city of Bremen established de facto rule over the lower Weser stream, including Lehe, later therefore called Bremerlehe. Early in 1653, Swedish Bremen-Verden 's troops captured Bremerlehe by force. The Emperor Ferdinand III ordered his vassal Christina of Sweden , then Duchess regnant of Bremen-Verden, to restitute Bremerlehe to Bremen. However, Swedish Bremen-Verden began

4440-453: The term is often also used ironically by members of the described group for themselves. Alman and Biodeutscher ("biological German") are similar terms coming out of the migrant community. Biodeutsch has also been adopted by some in the New Right in Germany to refer to a supposed 'genetic origin' of 'true' Germans. The term Saupreiß , derived from the German words Sau (= 'sow') which means female pig and Preuße which means Prussian,

4514-430: The term now refers to the cliché of a pompous northern Protestant German in general and a Berliner in particular. However, the citizens of the free Hanseatic cities and the former northern duchies of Oldenburg, Brunswick and Mecklenburg are also quite offended by the terms Piefke and also by Saupreiß (a slur for any German who is not native Bavarian). In 1990, Austrian playwright Felix Mitterer wrote and co-directed

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4588-905: The term with Germans is believed to have been inspired by an earlier address to Imperial German troops by Kaiser Wilhelm II . What is dubbed the " Hun speech " ( Hunnenrede ) was delivered on 27 July 1900, when he bade farewell to the German expeditionary corps sailing from the port of Bremerhaven to take part in suppressing the Boxer Rebellion . The relevant part of the speech was: Kommt ihr vor den Feind, so wird derselbe geschlagen! Pardon wird nicht gegeben! Gefangene werden nicht gemacht! Wer euch in die Hände fällt, sei euch verfallen! Wie vor tausend Jahren die Hunnen unter ihrem König Etzel sich einen Namen gemacht, der sie noch jetzt in Überlieferung und Märchen gewaltig erscheinen läßt, so möge der Name Deutsche in China auf 1000 Jahre durch euch in einer Weise bestätigt werden, daß es niemals wieder ein Chinese wagt, einen Deutschen scheel anzusehen! When you meet

4662-640: The terms Boće and Boçe Bosch (disambiguation) Bosh (disambiguation) Boshe , a village in China Edward Boches , an American academic Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Boche . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Boche&oldid=1251187195 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description

4736-489: The terms saku , sakemanni , hunni and lapinpolttaja (burner of Lapland , see: Lapland War ) became widely used among the Finnish soldiers, saku and sakemanni being modified from saksalainen (German). Boches is an apheresis of the word alboche , which in turn is a blend of allemand (French for German) and caboche (slang for head ). It was used mainly during the First and Second World Wars , and directed especially at German soldiers. Casque à pointe

4810-419: The two World Wars. Hun (or The Hun ) is a term that originally refers to the nomadic Huns of the Migration Period . Beginning in World War I it became an often used pejorative seen on war posters by Western Allied powers and the basis for a criminal characterisation of the Germans as barbarians with no respect for civilisation and humanitarian values having unjust reactions. The wartime association of

4884-452: The two countries. Still however, the expression describes mentality or behaviour that is counter to general Hungarian interest and describes persons not content with "true" Hungarian values. For the Jews who came from the German speaking world, there was a word in use for many years : " Yekke ", in Yiddish and Hebrew . One of the explanations of the name in Hebrew is "Yehudi Kshe Havana" יהודי קשה הבנה "A Jew who hardly understands" for

4958-483: The underworld of Paris about 1860, with the meaning of a disagreeable, troublesome fellow. In the Franco-Prussian war of 1870 it was not applied to the Germans, but soon afterward it was applied by the Parisian printers to their German assistants because of the reputed slowness of comprehension of these foreign printers. The epithet then used was tête de boche , which had the meaning of tête carrée d'Allemand (German blockhead or imbécile ). The next step

5032-452: The use of that abbreviation by the Nazis′ opponents and its avoidance by the Nazis themselves. "Ted", and "Teds", from Tedeschi , the Italian word for Germans, became the term used by Allied soldiers during the Italian campaign of World War II . In a more poetical sense Germans can be referred to as Teutons . The usage of the word in this term has been observed in English since 1833. The word originated via an ancient Germanic tribe,

5106-498: The war. The French songwriter Théodore Botrel described the Kaiser as "an Attila, without remorse", launching "cannibal hordes". By coincidence, Gott mit uns ("God is with us"), a motto first used in the Kingdom of Prussia and later the German Empire , may have contributed to the popularisation of 'Huns' as British Army slang for Germans by misreading 'uns' for 'Huns'. The usage of the term "Hun" to describe Germans resurfaced during World War II , although less frequently than in

5180-454: Was Line 2 from the north of the city to the main train station; but this was shut down on July 30, 1982. Bremerhaven has only a few historical buildings, and the high street and city centre are almost entirely post-war. The main attractions for tourists are found at the Havenwelten and include an attraction about climate change, the Klimahaus Bremerhaven 8° Ost  [ de ] , the German Emigration Center (since August 8, 2005) and

5254-445: Was broken in 2012 by the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant , with 1,000 boats. The passenger terminal Columbuskaje , built at the Weser bank in 1927 to avoid time-absorbing locking, has been transferred into a cruise terminal (Columbus Cruise Center Bremerhaven/CCCB). Also three marinas are available, the latest accessible through a new lock at Neuer Hafen . Bremerhaven has a city council with 49 members. It also elects 15 members of

5328-462: Was consequently renamed from Wesermünde to Bremerhaven. Today, Bremerhaven is a city in its own right, but also part of the city-state of Bremen, which is for all intents and purposes a state comprising two cities. In addition to being part of the federal state, the city of Bremen has owned the "overseas port" within Bremerhaven since 1927. This and other parts of Bremerhaven owned by the city of Bremen are known as stadtbremisch . To complicate matters,

5402-562: Was founded in 1975 and is expanding since with more than 3.000 students in 2009. The university is attended by a large number of students from all over the world. Among the courses offered are Process Engineering, Information Technology and the BA Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Leadership programme, the first programme modelled after the Finnisch Team Academy format in a German language higher educational institution. Bremerhaven

5476-518: Was to apply boche to Germans in general. "Squarehead", a generic derogatory term for people from Germany and Scandinavia; Commonly used for Germans during the First and Second World War, but found in a collection of slang from 1906 relating particularly to German military style. The term Boxhead , commonly used after World War II within the British Armed Forces in the former West Germany

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