On July 27 of 1900, Germans — and especially the German army — acquired the nickname “Huns” that was to prove such a propaganda drawback in the First World War.
And who bestowed it on them? Their own Kaiser, who urged troops departing to suppress the Boxer Rebellion in China to take no prisoners, give no quarter, and behave with such brutality that their reputation would terrify for a thousand years.
Which rather suggests that Allied propaganda in the Great War was effective because it was based on reality.
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