Stage pig

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As Etappensäue those units or soldiers were called by the soldiers who in the stage - in the hinterland were employed - the front. There they were not exposed to the dangers of the front and often lived "like maggots in bacon"; this sometimes at the expense of the soldiers at the front, who often had to suffer from harassment from soldiers on the stage.

Soldier jargon - words with a similar meaning were or are e.g. B. "stage stallion" or "sock counter".

In the stage were z. B. Military administration, supplies , medical service, repair and catering service.

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During the First World War the following poem was circulated among soldiers at the front:

The stage pigs.
Who walks around dressed and ironed,
who finds greeting terribly difficult,
who swallows countless command money,
who is a hero in conversations and letters,
who steals the best wines from us,
these are the stage pigs.
Who has neither dung nor grits in their heads
and yet wears the black and white ribbon in the button,
who trippies German women to shame,
cleaned contaminated French women,
and who rarely sleeps alone?
These are the stage pigs.
Who packs the suitcase at the slightest shooting
and trembles at Joffre's attempts to break through
who cuts the stupidest latrine rumors
and destroys the happy mood for us
by ill-seeing and contraband
these are the stage pigs.
And yet you weights and milk-faced faces,
her puffed up limp lights,
we want for your miserable life,
not give one of the proud memories
we are bound by love and loyalty,
you remain the stage pigs.
A front pig

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Klaus Peter Möller: The true E: a dictionary of the GDR soldier's language . S. 277 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ↑ quoted from a letter from the field post of May 18, 1915 . The poem is also quoted in books, e.g. B. Franz Seldte (1930), Front experience: People's edition of the two books "MGK" and "Continuous Fire" . Koehler Verlag, p. 395 or Kurt Tucholsky : Complete edition: Letters 1911-1918 , Rowohlt 2008, p. 80 or military chaplaincy in the First World War: the war diary of the Catholic chaplain Benedict Kreutz , Matthias-Grünewald, 1987, p. 24
  3. ↑ According to Armin Aubler: Traces: The adventurous way of a Bavarian family . 2011, p. 539 ( limited preview in Google Book search). , the author of the poem was sought but not found

Remarks

  1. ↑ This is what the Iron Cross means for non-combatants .