Poor Doris Ritter. Even though I knew her story, it did not occur to me to share it with cahn those many months ago, and finally selenak had to come along and recount it, to my shame.
it sounds like he only did this not out of any perceived national interest but in order to hurt Fritz
You can make all the legalistic "FW had a conscience" arguments you want, historians, but FW was out to break Fritz. We have a letter from FW to someone at Küstrin saying, "After he watches Katte's execution, make sure Fritz's heart is really broken."
So yes. Like Katte, Doris Ritter was aimed at hurting Fritz, and giving FW an outlet for his rage. She was virgo intacta (not that this should matter! but in context it mattered), and FW did what FW wanted to do.
Definitely par for the course.
I'm interested in legal history
OOC, how much do you know about pre-Code French legal history? Because I was writing a fic and ran into this question that I posted at little-details, and nobody knew.
Re: The Katte War Tribunal Protocol
it sounds like he only did this not out of any perceived national interest but in order to hurt Fritz
You can make all the legalistic "FW had a conscience" arguments you want, historians, but FW was out to break Fritz. We have a letter from FW to someone at Küstrin saying, "After he watches Katte's execution, make sure Fritz's heart is really broken."
So yes. Like Katte, Doris Ritter was aimed at hurting Fritz, and giving FW an outlet for his rage. She was virgo intacta (not that this should matter! but in context it mattered), and FW did what FW wanted to do.
Definitely par for the course.
I'm interested in legal history
OOC, how much do you know about pre-Code French legal history? Because I was writing a fic and ran into this question that I posted at little-details, and nobody knew.