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Yes but "Hun" only became synonymous with destroyer and savage after Kaiser Wilhelm II ordered his German armies to behave "like Huns" when invading Belgium in the First World War. The Allied forces used this as a propaganda tool against the Germans and that's how that association sprung up with the word "Hun." It has absolutely nothing to do with Attila the Hun, who received that nickname as the leader of the Huns. Yes, the Huns did sack and pillage Roman lands, but the association of "Hun" with that term stems directly from WWI Germany.