German soldiers during World War I were called "Huns" by the American soldiers. The Germans called their soldiers "The Bosch" during World War I.
'Fritz' was the nickname for all German soldiers in WW1. The Bristish were called 'Tommy's' I believe.
Krauts was the most common. Squareheads, Jerries, some used terms left over from WWI, and called them the Huns, or the Boche.
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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German traitors
The Huns were a nomadic Mongol tribe of central Asia. They moved into eastern Europe during and after the collapse of the Roman Empire. Equated with barbarians or invaders from the east, German soldiers in World War I were widely referred to as "Huns."
Germans wer often called "Huns" by their enemies in World War I
Wilson made the CPI (Committee on Public Information) picture German soldiers as blood thirsty "Huns". And the US all thought differently of German soldiers and Anti-German feeling grew. For example, German language wasn't taught in school, German newspapers were closed, and music written by Germans would never play.
British soldiers- Tommies German Soldiers- Krauts, Jerrys, Huns, Tedeschi (Italian term) Teds (British abbreviated form of above) Japanese Soldiers- Japs, nips, slants (the term slants reffers to the Japanese people's eye shape.) American soldiers- G.I.'s (Government Issue) Or For the Real Green soldiers, draftees, Joes, Mac (USMC only) Italian soldiers- Eye-ties, Goombah (Even though the term was more widly used after the war to reffer to Italian thugs) French soldiers- Frogs Polish soldiers-the polls Russia-Reds, Ruskies, Commies, Ivan.
Wilson made the CPI (Committee on Public Information) picture German soldiers as blood thirsty "Huns". And the US all thought differently of German soldiers and Anti-German feeling grew. For example, German language wasn't taught in school, German newspapers were closed, and music written by Germans would never play.
The German soldiers that were paid by the British to fight in the Revolutionary War were called "Hessians".