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Bosch - usually spelt boche - was mainly the French nickname; the British preferred to call the Germans the Huns. The soldiers from Germany were also called Hessians because many of them came from Hess,Germany.

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It was a degrading reference the French used to describe Nazi soldiers in ww2. "Not used today in polite circles".

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