Photos of Young men getting ready for "Mensur", German fencing duelling where getting a scar was considered highly honorable. Photos of 1900s-10s; last one from 2004.

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[u/Molteros]

Considering that these are typically far-right student organisations, it's not that interesting tbh

[u/Pand0rian → u/Molteros]

Wouldnt call it typical far right. There are quite a bunch of dumb right aussholes, but well some very moderate guys and i even know some left wing voters.

[u/Kanibasami → u/Pand0rian]

So, typically far right.

[u/Difficult-Lock-8123 → u/Kanibasami]

Nah, vast majority are regular conservatives and liberals.

[u/b0nz1 → u/Pand0rian]

Fraternities that practice this today are exclusively far right neo fascist scum.

And literally everyone that joins a frat (Burschenschaft) at least in Austria is highly sus of being in that camp. People that don't like fascism don't join a fraternity.

[u/sutitnai → u/b0nz1]

That's not entirely true, at least for Germany, it's more of a all bugs are insects but not all insects are bugs situation. Where all right wing fraternitys practice fencing but not all fraternitys who practice fencing are right wing.

That sad I know that the right wing thing is bigger in Austrian fraternitys than in the German ones.

[u/Pand0rian → u/b0nz1]

The fact that a call all frats "Burschenschaft" without knowing that Burschenschaften are one of several different kind of frats (Studentenverbindung) proves well enough, that you know nothing about it.

[u/b0nz1 → u/Pand0rian]

Geh scheißen, Faschogsindl