I'm still mad at the Nazis for protecting his body during WWII! Because I *like* being able to visit his grave, and in a totally irrational way I'm glad he finally ended up where he wanted, and I'm incensed at the fact that the Nazis and their fucked up priorities played any role in this at all, and more generally at the fact that we're fanboying/fanpersoning the same individual in the first place. Grrrr. GTFO of my fandom, Nazi scum! I'd rather have millions of living people saved than one corpse; I'd rather have one living person than a million corpses.

Oh, I don't remember if we've brought up the specifics yet, but during the allied bombing of Berlin, Fritz and FW's coffins got removed for safety by those-whose-names-will-not-be-spoken to an underground mine, behind a really thick wall. Some American soldiers eventually found them there after the war. Then they got shuffled around to churches and castles and whatnot, until 1991.

Of course, if anyone had listened to Fritz in the first place, none of this would have been necessary: Sanssouci escaped the bombing--iirc, because the bombing was concentrated around Berlin, and Sanssouci was far enough removed on the fringes in Potsdam--which is why there's still that lovely palace and park there today. (And again, would rather spare one living person than all the palaces and historic sites in the world.)

Mmm, don't know if we mentioned this either, but Küstrin (site of Katte's execution and Fritz's imprisonment), right on the Polish side of the border these days (are you paying attention, teenage mildred_of_midgard and your 18th-century mental map?), *was* bombed out of existence at the end of WWII, and is now a set of ruins you can go visit (and which I might, if the planets align).