Monty Python got some good alliterative mileage out of that term in their movie “And Now For Something Completely Different.” One sequence in the movie is a fake WWII British newsreel, in black and white, with suitably bombastic narration that includes the opening line “Yes, the war against the Hun continues – and as Britian’s brave boys battle against the Boche…” By the standards of genuine WWII newsreels, that’s actually not as over-the-top as it sounds to modern ears. And during a real WWII deception operation, the fake letter from General Nye to General Alexander which was the centrepiece of the “Mincemeat” disinformation scheme used such phrases as “We have had recent information that the Boche have been reinforcing and strengthening their defences in Greece and Crete…”
WWI Fringe Battlegrounds
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Of possible interest to A&A WWI 1914 players: a BBC article on six lesser-known WWI battlegrounds (Togo, Lebanon, Mexico, Tanzania, China and Malta).
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Interesting, thank you.
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Loved the article, common misconception that WWI was just trenches in France.
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This is why Tsingtao is a really good beer. it’s originally a German factory, taken by the Japanese then China in 1945.
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@Imperious:
This is why Tsingtao is a really good beer. it’s originally a German factory, taken by the Japanese then China in 1945.
It would be great to drink a beer with all you guys.
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