he expressed extreme disapproval for this tradition. In George MacDonald Fraser's Royal Flash (1970), the protagonist Harry Flashman is scarred with a Schläger as part of his disguise as a Danish prince. Mensur is featured in Heinrich Mann's novel Man of Straw (Der Untertan). Mensur scars are repeatedly noted and described as a sign of beauty and manliness by German characters in Katherine Anne Porter's novel Ship of Fools. Mensur scars are mentioned in passing in Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers when two German recruits are asked at the beginning of boot camp where they got their scars. The drill sergeant even uses the term Korpsbruder (as spelled in modern German). E. C. Gordon, the hero of Heinlein's Glory Road, mentions his desire for a degree from Heidelberg and the dueling scars to go with it. The opening scene of "The Mystery of the Spanish Chest," in season three of Agatha Christie's Poirot, features two men fighting in the mensur style. The episode's dialogue implies that the fencers are English, rather than German, and that one fencer has challenged the other to a duel over a woman. In the James Bond books by Ian Fleming, the supervillain Ernst Stavro Blofeld has a dueling scar below his eye. In film The Mensur is featured in a number of German films, notably: Hans Westmar - Einer von Vielen ("Hans Westmar - One of Many"), 1933 Der Untertan, 1951 and less commonly in films outside Germany, such as The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, 1943 Royal Flash, 1975 In television "The Mystery of the Spanish Chest" in series 3 of Agatha Christie's Poirot begins with a mensur. In episode 77 of Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected, "The Vorpal Blade", the story revolves around duelling of this kind In Freud, dueling is shown and many characters have scars from dueling. See also A more detailed article (in German) with multiple illustrations can be found on the German Wikipedia: Mensur (Studentenverbindung) Dueling scars Fencing References References (in German) Hermann Rink: Die Mensur, ein wesentliches Merkmal des Verbandes. In: Rolf-Joachim Baum (Hrsg.): „Wir wollen Männer, wir wollen Taten!“ Deutsche Corpsstudenten 1848 bis heute. Siedler, Berlin 1998. pages 383-402 Hermann Rink: Vom studentischen Fechten bis zur Mensur. In: Handbuch des Kösener Corpsstudenten. Verband Alter Corpsstudenten e.V. Volume I. Würzburg 1985 (6. edition), pages 151-171 Martin Biastoch: Duell und Mensur im Kaiserreich (am Beispiel der Tübinger Corps