Everlasting Scars/Wounds Of Third Reich Personalities..

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a rather interesting choice of subject matter...

 

very gangsta

 

cheers nigel, I could match any of those big time, back in the 60s I got slashed from ear to mouth..nearly cost me my life...

 

most of mine are limbs and extremities - tried to keep 'pretty' although isn't doing me much good

I do actually have a fencing scar - pretty faded now - cut myself on the edge of the mesh of one of those masks that was in poor repair. utterly terrible at the sport as well. I think I might have been a bit better at this German technique they describe with the just standing there thing - I always had terrible problems with the dancing about like a jesse part.

 

Wow,

There is an image on the first page of a group of people posing for a picture after a match, the man in the bottom left seems to have been injured, his face is bloody!

I've actually never noticed this before to be honest, very interesting post.

 

interesting how so many have the scar across the left cheek... what would cause that to be a common injury for so many soldiers?

 

Maybe it´s the right-handed blade injury of the duels?

 

At the turn of the 20th century, the dueling scar (also known as the "bragging scar" or "Renommierschmiss") became popular amongst upper-class Austrians and Germans who viewed it as a mark of class and honor, due to the social importance of university dueling socieities at the time.

The dueling scar became a powerful symbol of class and was donned by many professionals - doctors, lawyers, professors - to signify their elite social rank. It was common to see young men with bandaged faces in Austrian university cafes.