hold my beer, said students in germany and austria in the late 19th century right before they hacked each others freakin faces off. Mensur dueling was a major thing in universities at the time, and what they would do is cover their whole bodies with protection, except of course, where you want the scars to be. they had to stand at a set distance, or a mensur, coming from the latin word for dimension, and duel with blunt tipped sabers sharpened about 8 inches on the primary side and 5 inches on the secondary side. First to leave a scar wins, and the loser has to drink a pint of beer as they ripped the wound open and packed a horse hair in there so the scar would grow deeper, they wore these becoming a man scars proudly, some who wanted the fit in but didnt want the danger associated, would see doctors and pay them to scar up their face. crazy. right? this persisted in germany resulting in lots of scary nazi officers. people often misconceive that it was a nazi practice but in truth, officers were most commonly made from educated gentlemen of hiher prestige, for instance who went to school, hitler himself actually banned the tradition, only to be reinstated after his death in 1945
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