Talk:Soldiers/@comment-6716431-20161112012937/@comment-16533050-20161112083621

Definitively? I don't know that, sorry.

What I do know is the third degree is a euphemism for torture ("inflicting of pain, physical or mental, to extract confessions or statements"). Perhaps it came from the Spanish Inquisition, and their five degrees of torture, but that is speculation on my part.