What is the origin of watten and is there any evidence of soldiers in ww1 or ww2 playing the card game?

by humorlessNOOB

Watten as in the card game and if it helps my mother taught me it and she is south Tyrolean.

commiespaceinvader

I can only give a short answer as a start here but according to most of the books describing the card game (Max Hafele, Meinhard Eiter: Das Tiroler Watterbuch. Löwenzahn Verlag, 1999) Watten orginated most likely in the region covering South and North Tyrol and Bavaria during the Napoleonic wars of the early 19th century.