cahn

Yep! This is one of the historiographical problems. Some of our main primary sources who knew Katte while he was alive didn't like him, Fritz would barely talk about him and not write at all that I know of afterward, and then you just get the people who were impressed at the manner of his death (and you get several slight variations on the sequence of events, to the point where we're not quite sure how *exactly* it happened). I think I pointed out in an earlier comment that it's very hard to trust some of the things that were said about him.