Flight from Alsace

(At the French Foreign Legion Offices)
“Messieurs, according to our rules, we must draw your attention to the dangers that you can expect in the Foreign Legion: you can get sunstroke in Africa, malaria in Tonkin China, and sleeping sickness in the Congo…”
“It doesn’t matter, just so there are no Prussian lieutenants anywhere!”
(Der wahre Jacob, Stuttgart, 1914)