American ethnic slurs for Germans at the time included kraut and Jerry. It was generally understood that this applied to literal Germans, not Americans of German descent.
No. The Thompson submachine gun was invented in WW1 and named after General Thompson. Initially it was marketed to civilians as the Annihilator, but renamed for marketing purposes. It has nothing to do with the British in WW2, who used the Sten sub machine gun.
The Brits bought the early model (the 1921, later the 1928 too) which they used in combat before any American soldiers ever did. This is also how Churchill ended up wielding one in a famous photo from 1940.
German crimes against disarmed Italians were horrifying. On one of the Greek small islands they did them a Katyn style and size massacre. In Poland they were starving them to death in camps just like they the Soviet POWs earlier in the war, and they were shooting them here too, especially the officers. It's not being talked about outside Italy, albeit there was an international movie about the island shootings. They also murdered entire Italian villages Eastern Front style. (A few movies too, mostly Italian except one by Spike Lee. I liked The Man Who Will Come the most personally.) Most people in America know nothing about it, did you?
They used Nazis instead of Germans because Germans were the largest ethnic group in America.
The Japanese were few and in camps, so it was just Japs and Nips no problem.
A German equivalent would be Germs.
American ethnic slurs for Germans at the time included kraut and Jerry. It was generally understood that this applied to literal Germans, not Americans of German descent.
Jerry was British. They also called themselves Tommies (thus the Tommygun).
No. The Thompson submachine gun was invented in WW1 and named after General Thompson. Initially it was marketed to civilians as the Annihilator, but renamed for marketing purposes. It has nothing to do with the British in WW2, who used the Sten sub machine gun.
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The Brits bought the early model (the 1921, later the 1928 too) which they used in combat before any American soldiers ever did. This is also how Churchill ended up wielding one in a famous photo from 1940.
They still put Germans and Italians in camps anyway, but both of those groups are white so American war crimes against them dont get mentioned.
German crimes against disarmed Italians were horrifying. On one of the Greek small islands they did them a Katyn style and size massacre. In Poland they were starving them to death in camps just like they the Soviet POWs earlier in the war, and they were shooting them here too, especially the officers. It's not being talked about outside Italy, albeit there was an international movie about the island shootings. They also murdered entire Italian villages Eastern Front style. (A few movies too, mostly Italian except one by Spike Lee. I liked The Man Who Will Come the most personally.) Most people in America know nothing about it, did you?