At least initially, Germans regarded British and American soldiers (especially Americans) as somewhat amateurish, although their opinion of American, British, and Empire troops grew as the war progressed. German certainly saw shortcomings in the ways the Allied used infantry.
Ami – German slang for an American soldier.
Ahead of the Allied invasion of Germany, Nazi propagandists had assured their countrymen that American soldiers would torture and kill them and their families, prompting mass suicides throughout the Reich.
As for the western allies, the Germans had a great respect for them. To the Germans, the western powers were culturally and ethnically the same. They were seen as honorable opponents and potential allies.
Ami. Ami is derived from Amerikaner, but it specifically refers to people from the United States, including US soldiers in Germany.
We got our nickname Devil Dogs from official German reports which called the Marines at Belleau Wood Teufel Hunden.
"Ami" or "Amis", short for American, not nasty - just slang. It took on deeper meaning during the cold war, but was fairly neutral at the time of WWII when first used.
SS-Obersturmbannfuhrer Otto Skorzeny was one of the most celebrated and feared commandos of World War II. Daring operations such as the rescue of Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini and missions behind enemy lines during the Battle of the Bulge made him known as “the most dangerous man in Europe.”
At least initially, Germans regarded British and American soldiers (especially Americans) as somewhat amateurish, although their opinion of American, British, and Empire troops grew as the war progressed. German certainly saw shortcomings in the ways the Allied used infantry.
As the generation that elected Adolf Hitler and fought his genocidal war dies away, most Germans today see World War II through the prism of guilt, responsibility and atonement. And almost all agree that the defeat of the Nazis was a good thing.
Mayor Rommel told the departing troops: "Never before in history did a victorious nation help a defeated nation so much to recover." Later, he said: "I will never forget these Americans."
German soldiers would call out to "Tommy" across no man's land if they wished to speak to a British soldier. French and Commonwealth troops would also call British soldiers "Tommies".
The Germans quickly observed that the British were resolute and brave in defence, but often over-cautious in attack. Perhaps a historic psychology might have been at work.
Though often referred to as "Japanese Marines," the Rikusentai were not trained to conduct opposed amphibious operations, and were entirely under the control of the Imperial Japanese Navy as opposed to a quasi-independent military branch such as the United States' Marine Corps or the United Kingdom's Royal Marines.
An equivalent of the word "Engländer", which is the German noun for "Englishman".
So yes, its no exaggeration to say they were viewed and used as 'Shock Troops' in WWI due to the Canadian Corps' superior organisation and structure. HOWEVER - it was not only Canadian or ANZAC outfits that were capable of great feats of arms.
Russians also point to the fact that Soviet forces killed more German soldiers than their Western counterparts, accounting for 76 percent of Germany's military dead.
In his 1929 bestseller Good-Bye to All That, he wrote “the troops that had the worst reputation for acts of violence against prisoners were the Canadians.” Germans developed a special contempt for the Canadian Corps, seeing them as unpredictable savages.
Prisoners had friendly interaction with local civilians and sometimes were allowed outside the camps without guards on the honor system (Black American guards noted that German prisoners could visit restaurants that they could not because of Jim Crow laws.
Though they existed more than eight centuries ago, Genghis Khan and the Mongols are still regarded as the most-feared military of all time. This is due to their reign over an incredible empire that they conquered in a short period of time.
Japan had the best trained soldiers individually, but Germany had the most effective troopers as per military doctrine ( in battlefield conditions).
In WWII, American soldiers commonly called Germans and Japanese as krauts and Japs.
Japan. Japanese civilians were more likely to view the actions of Pearl Harbor as a justified reaction to the economic embargo by western countries. Not only were the Japanese more aware of the embargo's existence, but they were also more likely to view the action as the critical point of American hostility.
Years after the end of World War II, the bodies of Japanese soldiers who had died in the Mariana Islands were repatriated to their homeland for proper burial. More than half of the bodies returned home were returned without their heads.