re: #376 jaunte

I think the WW1 Hun reference was to recall the original Attila version.

Actually, it was originally a reference to a speech Kaiser Wilhelm II had given to the German East Asia Brigade in 1900, as it was departing for China to assist in the suppression of the Boxer Rebellion. He encouraged his troops to sow terror and make the Chinese as afraid of the wrath of Germany as China had been afraid of the Huns.

This also dovetailed with the fact the Boxers were not part of a national army and thus were considered by the Germans to be ‘Franc-Tireurs’ (the German army’s preferred term for insurgents) and as such subject to summary execution.