German student with dueling scars. Also called “bragging scars,” dueling scars were popular among upper class German fencing students. They were seen as a “badge of honor” and sometimes even irritated to make them more extreme in appearance.
Many Wehrmacht and SS men had dueling scars.
SS-Obergruppenführer Ernst Kaltenbrunner (1903-1946)
Kaltenbrunner, properly at Nuremberg
Oberstabsarzt Dr. Ernst Gadermann
SS-Sturmbannführer Dr. Erich Gatternig
Ehrenfried Boege Wehrmacht General of the 197’th infantry division
Major Max Edler von der Planitz (1903-1990)
Major Dr. Egon Treeck
Hauptmann Kurt Schäfer
Heinrich Reinefarth
Fritz-Dietlof Graf von der Schulenburg
Christian Tychsen
Gauleiter Adolf Wagner
SS-Standartenführer Otto Skorzeny
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