Also, lol, General Katte is so forgettable. It took both of us this long to remember his existence. And pretty much the only thing I know about him off the top of my head is him going, "I find all this correspondence between my cousin and the Crown Prince suspicious; why don't I forward this letter and get my cousin killed?"
Man, I wonder what the rest of the family thought about General Katte's move there. Of course, I still wonder how they felt about Lieutenant Katte's treason. Lehndorff, YOU MISSED YOUR CHANCE TO TELL US.
Oh, wait, maybe it's in the supplemental volumes.
OMG, he goes to Küstrin in volume 2! Okay, not much, but Katte gets a whole sentence this time...Oh, *Lehndorff's* our source for the anecdote about Fritz's candles getting extinguished in the evening and then relit by the officer--yet another example of FW's orders getting followed in the letter but not the spirit. I've been wondering.
Omg, am I reading this right? Frau von Katte is his cousin, to whom he was engaged, but she had to marry a Herr v. Katte who did not suit her at all, and Lehndorff's unhappy about this? Both for financial and personal reasons? So they became friends instead? That explains why they're always hanging out! Also, I've been thinking all along that she's way too young to be the *wife* of the General in question, who's a generation older than our Hans Hermann, but she might be the wife of his son or something. And if I'm right (and there seems to be a second reference to this elsewhere), Lehndorff was disappointed in marriage, and seems to be fitting right in with the Hohenzollerns in ignoring his wife.
Okay, ima send you this page for your advance inspection. ;)
Also, one of Katte's half sisters makes an appearance. He says he knew her in his youth as a "hochfahrende, mächtige Dame". Haughty and overbearing? "Powerful" seems a bit off. But now she's humble and modest. Ugh, I would finish this paragraph but for the font. SMH. Anyway, she seems unhappy.
The index shows another of Katte's half-sisters, Frau v. Rochow. Dude, you know the whole family, how are you not interested in telling us everything you know about Hans Hermann? Maybe you've known it for so long it's not gossip any more, it's old news. But won't somebody think of us 2019 readers!
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Man, I wonder what the rest of the family thought about General Katte's move there. Of course, I still wonder how they felt about Lieutenant Katte's treason. Lehndorff, YOU MISSED YOUR CHANCE TO TELL US.
Oh, wait, maybe it's in the supplemental volumes.
OMG, he goes to Küstrin in volume 2! Okay, not much, but Katte gets a whole sentence this time...Oh, *Lehndorff's* our source for the anecdote about Fritz's candles getting extinguished in the evening and then relit by the officer--yet another example of FW's orders getting followed in the letter but not the spirit. I've been wondering.
Omg, am I reading this right? Frau von Katte is his cousin, to whom he was engaged, but she had to marry a Herr v. Katte who did not suit her at all, and Lehndorff's unhappy about this? Both for financial and personal reasons? So they became friends instead? That explains why they're always hanging out! Also, I've been thinking all along that she's way too young to be the *wife* of the General in question, who's a generation older than our Hans Hermann, but she might be the wife of his son or something. And if I'm right (and there seems to be a second reference to this elsewhere), Lehndorff was disappointed in marriage, and seems to be fitting right in with the Hohenzollerns in ignoring his wife.
Okay, ima send you this page for your advance inspection. ;)
Also, one of Katte's half sisters makes an appearance. He says he knew her in his youth as a "hochfahrende, mächtige Dame". Haughty and overbearing? "Powerful" seems a bit off. But now she's humble and modest. Ugh, I would finish this paragraph but for the font. SMH. Anyway, she seems unhappy.
The index shows another of Katte's half-sisters, Frau v. Rochow. Dude, you know the whole family, how are you not interested in telling us everything you know about Hans Hermann? Maybe you've known it for so long it's not gossip any more, it's old news. But won't somebody think of us 2019 readers!