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Jean Moulin, alias Joseph Mercier, alias Regis, alias Max, who held the unexciting prewar job of prefect of Chartres, had simply decided to stand up to the boches.

From Time Magazine Archive

We saw concealed cupolas for machine-guns, and "les officiers boches" had had a neat system of douches.

From Everyman's Land by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)

Those three shots were for him; and he was a Spaniard: and the boches were daring to attack him on his own ground!

From Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel by Jordan, Charlotte Brewster

I can honestly state that my mind is a blank for the period of time which elapsed after I ran the first fifty yards toward the boches.

From The Black Watch A Record in Action by Cassells, Joe