Incident of Saverne
Incidental of Saverne or the business of Saverne (allem. Zabern-Affäre ). November 6th, 1913, two articles of Elsässer and the Zaberner Anzeiger reveal that with Saverne, a Prussian lieutenant (noble), Lieutenant von Forstner, treats the Alsatian Wacke soldiers (hooligans) and promises 10 marks per capita with that which will stab one of them. This incident, which intervenes at a meeting of instruction of the young recruits, can appear banal. The information which reports it is local. They however will start an astonishing business with international expansions. A crisis will start in Alsace and Germany and will go up in a few days to more the high summit of the State, the Prussian soldiers having struck with blows of stick of the idlers, and lieutenant von Forstner having wounded of a blow of saber to the head a disabled person who was in the assembly.
Lieutenant von Forstner having required an escort of eight men to go to buy chocolates downtown (!), a photograph (Roger-Purple coll ) shows it thus going under the gibes of a crowd of passers by and kids. The Alsatian draftsman Hansi made of it a caricature reproduced on this postcard HTTP: /thierry.heitmann.free.fr/saverne/images/sav00348.jpg visible on the site of Thierry Heitmann HTTP: /thierry.heitmann.free.fr/saverne/affaire.htm, of Saverne.
The album " Files of Alsace" (ED. Michele Trinkvel) reports all the details of the business, with several photographs in support of a long extract of " The business of Saverne" , of Julien Rovère (Paris, 1919).
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