You couldn't make it up dept no.70: degeneration

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They had been warned. In April 1914, General von Plettenburgh, commanding the Prussian Guards Corps, issued a decree against the wearing of the so-called "tooth-brush" moustache, pointing out that such an appendage was unsuitable for a Prussian soldier and "not consonant with the German national character." Subsequently, a well-known political figure managed to cast himself as a German super-patriot in spite of wearing exactly that kind of moustache.

Comments

[patchworkmind.livejournal.com]

That's pretty funny.

[marielapin.livejournal.com]

That 'stache bothers me. It looks less natural than the big, curly, larger-than-life ones some men still wear.

[exaltedunmelody.livejournal.com]

The irony kills!

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Um, in that case, "steel, guns and germs" did their part too, I'm afraid.