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selenak ([personal profile] selenak) wrote in [personal profile] cahn 2019-10-16 10:20 am (UTC)

Re: Sanssouci

I'm really really really busy right now, so in all brevity, try these links and have Chrome translate them:

https://www.die-kartoffel.de/31-blog/stories/191-friedrich-der-grosse

https://www.br.de/radio/bayern2/sendungen/kalenderblatt/2403-friedrich-ii-empfiehlt-kartoffeln-100.html

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kartoffelbefehl

Gist: the "potato order" is historical, but that he tricked people by having his soldiers guard potato fields in order to make them look desirable to the farmers is a legend which can't be proven one way or the other. Whatever he did, it worked, whereas Dad FW had already tried to introduce the potato to Prussia and failed.

Potato grave: no idea, could not discover by quick googling. Must dash!

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