Announcing Rheinsberg: Frederick the Great discussion post 10

[cahn]

So for anyone who is reading this and would like to learn more about Frederick the Great and his contemporaries, but who doesn't want to wade through 500k (600k?) words worth of comments and an increasingly sprawling comment section:

We now have a community, rheinsberg, that has quite a lot of the interesting historical content (and more coming regularly), organized nicely with lots of lovely tags so if there's any subject you are interested in it is easy to find :D

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Re: Henri de Catt Unplugged - I

[mildred_of_midgard]

the "Youth of FtG" appendices have the letter from Fritz to Grumbkow

I was wondering what you meant by the appendices to The Youth of Frederick the Great, and then I realized I needed to clarify something that I accidentally made very confusing. The two Youth books in the library are unrelated. The one called Youth Documents was just me being sloppy and naming it what I think of it as (in English) rather than by its actual title, which is Allergnädigster Vater: Die Verkruppelung eines Charakters zu Wusterhausen : Dokumente aus der Jugendzeit Friedrichs II.

Really I should have called it "Allergnädigster Vater," but then I would never have remembered to look it up under the letter A. And of course, this was one of the first additions to the library, long before there was a Lavisse book that actually started with "Youth."

Sorry for the confusion!