There may be times and places where it's a good idea to talk back to a military officer - but Germany in 1906 wasn't one of them. So the young corporal didn't.
The corporal - let's call him Muller - had been leading his squad of four privates down Sylterstrasse in Berlin, only to be challenged by a captain.
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