And glancing at the second part, it looks to me like you get shot without pardon for opposition (refusing to follow orders, I assume?) or threatening your officers with a rifle.
This is actually incorporated in the entertainingly trashy Sachsens Glanz und Preußens Gloria; it's how Saxon ingenue Pepita's first love dies (he spends the night with her, is chewed out by his superior officer the next day, puts his hand on his weapon, realises what he's done but too late, and that's it) and why she hates Fritz and later comes up with the kidnapping scheme against him.
"im Gewehr mit einem Wort raisoniert" - old fashioned German for "if he argues with a rifle in his hand".
Anyway - if that's the punishment simply for argueing, I'm now inclined to believe Völker was in for 24 times, though maybe indeed provided with a few days pause in between so he could survive it (as he evidently did).
felis identified Schöning for us, see above, with the help of Gustav Volz!
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Re: Glasow: the Nicolai version
This is actually incorporated in the entertainingly trashy Sachsens Glanz und Preußens Gloria; it's how Saxon ingenue Pepita's first love dies (he spends the night with her, is chewed out by his superior officer the next day, puts his hand on his weapon, realises what he's done but too late, and that's it) and why she hates Fritz and later comes up with the kidnapping scheme against him.
"im Gewehr mit einem Wort raisoniert" - old fashioned German for "if he argues with a rifle in his hand".
Anyway - if that's the punishment simply for argueing, I'm now inclined to believe Völker was in for 24 times, though maybe indeed provided with a few days pause in between so he could survive it (as he evidently did).
Re: Glasow: the Nicolai version
Thanks, that was my guess.
felis identified Schöning for us, see above, with the help of Gustav Volz!
Gah, I am so far behind. I should finish reading before replying, shouldn't I? But good for her, I look forward to getting to that part of my backlog!