Squareheads, Blockheads and other epithets applied to the German soldiers of the First World War
Here are some of the epithets commonly used for German soldiers during WWI: Bosche – the pejorative French word for German is from the French “albosche” and “caboche” (head of cabbage or head of cabbage). This was very commonly applied to German soldiers by the French. They hardly knew the German soldier of the First…