⚔️ German Student Duels: Gruesome Scars of German officers Explained!

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Ever wonder why old German photos show men with facial scars? It's Mensur fencing! This brutal student tradition involved special sabers & almost guaranteed scars! Learn this fascinating history in just seconds!#history #germany #fencing
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Germans were known to pack the wound with horsehair to create the uneven scaring that was popular among the upper class men of the time. Dueling scars were seen as masculine and dashing in imperial and nazi germany.

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Their officers that sitting in HQ already got battle scars XD

mountymarkov
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That's the first time I've seen an SS uniform with lightning bolts on both sides of his collar

bradjohnson
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First one to draw Blood wins and the old saying Ladies like a real Man with Scar's from Dueling back in the Past.

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Wasn't just Germany was all of europe

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