Okay, if Catt died before FW2 did, and in Potsdam, to boot, then he DEFINITELY has a motive for letting Fritz be complimentary about young FW.
(In fairness: again, maybe Fritz was feeling both guilty on AW‘s behalf and sentimental. Lehndorff, btw, is very fond of young FW, and says a lot of nice things about him, too, but then Lehndorff isn‘t on the record for dissing him all the time, either, and is consistent there. (He does diss Borck, the man Fritz put in charge of young FW‘s education, though, for making fun of him (FW) all the time when he‘s clumsy and teaching him to make fun of other people when they make mistakes instead of encouraging him to be kind.)
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Date: 2020-01-07 08:11 pm (UTC)(In fairness: again, maybe Fritz was feeling both guilty on AW‘s behalf and sentimental. Lehndorff, btw, is very fond of young FW, and says a lot of nice things about him, too, but then Lehndorff isn‘t on the record for dissing him all the time, either, and is consistent there. (He does diss Borck, the man Fritz put in charge of young FW‘s education, though, for making fun of him (FW) all the time when he‘s clumsy and teaching him to make fun of other people when they make mistakes instead of encouraging him to be kind.)
No need to rush, take your time.