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On June 28, 1919, the day this was printed, the Treaty of Versailles was signed in France ending the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers of World War I. That's the context for the "hun mine-layer" comment.

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[โ€“] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago (15 children)

What is a Hun-Mine layer? I feel that might be helpful on the punchline....

[โ€“] rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world 43 points 2 months ago (11 children)

I am pretty sure "Hun" was a way to refer to the Germans in WW1, so a Hun Mine-Layer would be a German who laid mines... But could be totally talking out of my arse so will look it up ๐Ÿ˜‚

[โ€“] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (7 children)

So is Atilla the Hun just Atilla the German?

[โ€“] Ordo_Bellatores@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

'atilla' meant something like 'little Daddy' in visigothic.

Do with that what you will

[โ€“] topherclay@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

That's a little unfair because "daddy" is already a diminutive version of "dad" so you are double dipping on diminutives. It'd be more accurate to say that "atilla" is either like "little dad" or "daddy".

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