The flag of Prussia is black and white and Marx might do a slight pun on it, that she is very National and Prussian (which makes sense for Bismarck's niece), but the understanding was also that Prussia was rigid and black and white, so it does work on two levels (flag and associations with Prussia in addition to rigid black and white thinking). To the tip of the nose is likely a translation of a specific phrase which is "very much". There are a couple of bad children's stories about something like that, however the phrase is more common in military context.
It wasn't uncommon and remains common in 1930 and even sometimes today to use the colours of flags to describe people's actions. In the last decades though it is rarely found in the wild and mostly confined to some circles. My grandmother though, for her it was a common colloquium, i.e. call someone black red white would label them monarchist or reactionary, those people would label republicans with black red mustard (black red yellow/gold being the republican flag version).
One example of Prussian rigidity (though only one aspect of it, not so much the morality) is the Hauptmann of Köpenick/the Captain of Köpenick a person creates a uniform for themselves commands a group of soldiers and orders the soldiers to squat a post office/bank and give him the money of the bank. All people including the boss of the squatted building complies.
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The flag of Prussia is black and white and Marx might do a slight pun on it, that she is very National and Prussian (which makes sense for Bismarck's niece), but the understanding was also that Prussia was rigid and black and white, so it does work on two levels (flag and associations with Prussia in addition to rigid black and white thinking). To the tip of the nose is likely a translation of a specific phrase which is "very much". There are a couple of bad children's stories about something like that, however the phrase is more common in military context.
It wasn't uncommon and remains common in 1930 and even sometimes today to use the colours of flags to describe people's actions. In the last decades though it is rarely found in the wild and mostly confined to some circles. My grandmother though, for her it was a common colloquium, i.e. call someone black red white would label them monarchist or reactionary, those people would label republicans with black red mustard (black red yellow/gold being the republican flag version).
One example of Prussian rigidity (though only one aspect of it, not so much the morality) is the Hauptmann of Köpenick/the Captain of Köpenick a person creates a uniform for themselves commands a group of soldiers and orders the soldiers to squat a post office/bank and give him the money of the bank. All people including the boss of the squatted building complies.
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