Now that you've allowed me a first look at the Fredersdorf letters - he also writes "if you'd been there, nothing would have been taken, which, what?
Yes! That letter's on Trier, and I saw that back when I was first researching Soor, and also wondered what he meant!
I thiiink, if I'm remembering correctly, but of course I can't remember where I read it, that the camp was supposed to be packed up and on the move by the time the Hungarians arrived, but it was only half ready, and therefore quite vulnerable. Maybe Fritz has confidence in Fredersdorf's efficiency and the fact that things would have been better organized with him around? Who knows.
I do like to imagine Fredersdorf reading this and WTFing, though. :P But if it could be solved with organization, he could solve it.
Oh, I remember where I read the idea that only half the camp had been packed up. It was in Fritz's memoirs. Yep, there it is. Okay, so maybe that's what Fritz is thinking.
[ETA: Regardless of what he was thinking, though, it's a very touching expression of confidence in his right-hand man.]
This was definitely a letter written by an upset and less-than-philosophical man, though.
It's also funny how he writes, "So-and-so is incompetent; *I*'m busy and can't be expected to handle everything." Have you heard of the fundamental attribution error, Fritz? (I mean, I've worked with enough incompetent people to know there's a chance he was right, but maaaaybe we've got more Fritz scapegoating going on here.)
I just wish the editor would have said where he has the story from.
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Re: Fredersdorf letters
Date: 2019-12-08 07:28 am (UTC)Yes! That letter's on Trier, and I saw that back when I was first researching Soor, and also wondered what he meant!
I thiiink, if I'm remembering correctly, but of course I can't remember where I read it, that the camp was supposed to be packed up and on the move by the time the Hungarians arrived, but it was only half ready, and therefore quite vulnerable. Maybe Fritz has confidence in Fredersdorf's efficiency and the fact that things would have been better organized with him around? Who knows.
I do like to imagine Fredersdorf reading this and WTFing, though. :P But if it could be solved with organization, he could solve it.
Oh, I remember where I read the idea that only half the camp had been packed up. It was in Fritz's memoirs. Yep, there it is. Okay, so maybe that's what Fritz is thinking.
[ETA: Regardless of what he was thinking, though, it's a very touching expression of confidence in his right-hand man.]
This was definitely a letter written by an upset and less-than-philosophical man, though.
It's also funny how he writes, "So-and-so is incompetent; *I*'m busy and can't be expected to handle everything." Have you heard of the fundamental attribution error, Fritz? (I mean, I've worked with enough incompetent people to know there's a chance he was right, but maaaaybe we've got more Fritz scapegoating going on here.)
I just wish the editor would have said where he has the story from.
I always wish that.