Quotes About Thrashings

Gürtner was very hesitant, so I suggested that he should allow the Gestapo to try their hand, adding that nothing would happen to the fellow, that at the most he would get a good hiding, that had I myself received in one fell swoop all the thrashings I deserved (and had had) in my life, I should be dead !

Caning was a way of life at the school, and the boy, Sting and myself, even at an early age, had our fair share of thrashings.