"on April 11th, 1741, he won the battle of Mollwitz" - read: him, not Fritz etc.
Wooooow. The shade, it is thick! (Man, I love Heinrich for it, though. He is my problematic fave.)
All the same, the speech puts a remarkable emphasis on the cost and the sacrifices of war (in terms of what was usual in that era), and the inscriptions for the individual honored people often empasize their integrity and refusal to engage in plunder and oppression of the defeated. Layers again: the obelisk is both a "Fuck you, Fritz!" monument and a way to commemorate people he thought deserved to be honored and an expression of his own idea of military ethics.
That's really cool. <3 And thanks for the context on him not being a pacifist.
Re: Happy Birthday, Heinrich!
etc.
Wooooow. The shade, it is thick! (Man, I love Heinrich for it, though. He is my problematic fave.)
All the same, the speech puts a remarkable emphasis on the cost and the sacrifices of war (in terms of what was usual in that era), and the inscriptions for the individual honored people often empasize their integrity and refusal to engage in plunder and oppression of the defeated. Layers again: the obelisk is both a "Fuck you, Fritz!" monument and a way to commemorate people he thought deserved to be honored and an expression of his own idea of military ethics.
That's really cool. <3 And thanks for the context on him not being a pacifist.