That's why I had him mentally go "Habsburg Show off!" when MT makes a Latin remark at his surrender. I thought he did pick up some Latin during the Rheinsberg years, though?
Considering Catt, for one, had no access to Wihelmine's memoirs, or for that matter to Guy Dickens' report as given to Uncle G2, that Fritz quote looks pretty authentic to me. (Kamecke in the memoirs is the one to tell FW not to do a Peter I or Philipp II.) And again I say, no wonder this is the memory which reading Wilhelmine's memoirs many decades later brings back in Heinrich. Even when you're four and probably don't really understand what's at stake there, it must have been frightening as hell.
(I do regret we don't have an AW quote on this since at eight he was old enough to know what "Fritz is dead! No he's not!" was about, and because his own relationship with FW was so much better, seeing him like this, whaling Wilhelmine, lashing out at everyone must have shocked him to the core.)
Re: The Katte War Tribunal Protocol
Considering Catt, for one, had no access to Wihelmine's memoirs, or for that matter to Guy Dickens' report as given to Uncle G2, that Fritz quote looks pretty authentic to me. (Kamecke in the memoirs is the one to tell FW not to do a Peter I or Philipp II.) And again I say, no wonder this is the memory which reading Wilhelmine's memoirs many decades later brings back in Heinrich. Even when you're four and probably don't really understand what's at stake there, it must have been frightening as hell.
(I do regret we don't have an AW quote on this since at eight he was old enough to know what "Fritz is dead! No he's not!" was about, and because his own relationship with FW was so much better, seeing him like this, whaling Wilhelmine, lashing out at everyone must have shocked him to the core.)