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  • Should you encounter the enemy, he will be defeated! No quarter will be given! Prisoners will not be taken! Whoever falls into your hands is forfeited. Just as a thousand years ago the Huns under their King Attila made a name for themselves, one that even today makes them seem mighty in history and legend, may the name German be affirmed by you in such a way in China that no Chinese will ever again dare to look cross-eyed at a German.

    "Hun Speech". Address in Bremerhaven to the German Expeditionary Force Prior to its Departure for China, germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org. July 27, 1900.
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