All right, here's me trying to be slightly more analytical about it all.
My dear brother. I am very much obliged to you for the compliment of congratulations which you have kindly paid me on the occasion of the success of the last battle, and am convinced of the sincerity of your feelings. Do not complain about me, and remember that it is only your extraordinary and, so to speak, reckless behavior that has spoiled everything. I would have liked for your own reputation that, even if you had no command in the army, you would have been at least present at the above battle to share the glory instead of sitting around uselessly.
I don't even have words. I didn't even want to cut and paste this, it's so awful.
No WONDER everyone thought he died of a broken heart. I would have too.
I went and looked at the AW letters from Trier, and I also noticed that the salutation of Fritz's letter in November is "Monsieur mon frere." UGH. :(((((((
"Doing so honorably" after the public disgrace would of course mean an equally public restitution.
I didn't know that, thank you <3
I've already remarked on that last, indeed-radioactive letter. The last half of it I don't consider all that bad taken in isolation (and, in my case, without the context you have just provided) -- tone-deaf and kind of awful but, I mean, Fritz. The first half is -- just -- I think it's actually worse than FW's letter in some ways. I mean, obviously what FW did was far far worse, but you get the sense from FW's letter that he felt at least sort of bad about it, whereas this is just such a refusal to even consider any kind of... And the second half of this letter, coming after that first half -- I can just imagine Heinrich thinking, how dare he talk of a brother whom he loved, after saying that?? -- well, to elaborate on what I said before, I can see there are good psychological reasons why Heinrich didn't ever even try to kill Friedrich, but I also think that one wouldn't have to change very much to get the AU where Fritz was too physically near Heinrich when all this went down and Heinrich went after him in a blind fury.
Re: Brotherly Conduct III: The Aftermath
My dear brother. I am very much obliged to you for the compliment of congratulations which you have kindly paid me on the occasion of the success of the last battle, and am convinced of the sincerity of your feelings. Do not complain about me, and remember that it is only your extraordinary and, so to speak, reckless behavior that has spoiled everything. I would have liked for your own reputation that, even if you had no command in the army, you would have been at least present at the above battle to share the glory instead of sitting around uselessly.
I don't even have words. I didn't even want to cut and paste this, it's so awful.
No WONDER everyone thought he died of a broken heart. I would have too.
I went and looked at the AW letters from Trier, and I also noticed that the salutation of Fritz's letter in November is "Monsieur mon frere." UGH. :(((((((
"Doing so honorably" after the public disgrace would of course mean an equally public restitution.
I didn't know that, thank you <3
I've already remarked on that last, indeed-radioactive letter. The last half of it I don't consider all that bad taken in isolation (and, in my case, without the context you have just provided) -- tone-deaf and kind of awful but, I mean, Fritz. The first half is -- just -- I think it's actually worse than FW's letter in some ways. I mean, obviously what FW did was far far worse, but you get the sense from FW's letter that he felt at least sort of bad about it, whereas this is just such a refusal to even consider any kind of... And the second half of this letter, coming after that first half -- I can just imagine Heinrich thinking, how dare he talk of a brother whom he loved, after saying that?? -- well, to elaborate on what I said before, I can see there are good psychological reasons why Heinrich didn't ever even try to kill Friedrich, but I also think that one wouldn't have to change very much to get the AU where Fritz was too physically near Heinrich when all this went down and Heinrich went after him in a blind fury.