Koser says: Glasenapp According to a protocol made on August 30 and the people in question testifying to this, Glasenapp got the order to arrest Kappe in the morning of August 16th between 6 and 7 am. The postmaster Borchward says the order arrived on August 15th at 9 pm in the evening, but the guy in charge overlooked the "Per Estaffette", i.e. the remark that this was an urgent matter to be handed out at once. Auditeur Rumpf testifies that Katte wasn't surprised (nicht konsternieret) when getting arrested by Pannewitz. Koser then says that while tradition gives several reasons why Katte didn't use the time to flee, his testimony at the interrogation of August 30 says he and Lt. Holtzendorff got leave to visit Malchow on August 15th. Koser does not say whether that was where they actually went. According to the interrogation from the 30th, Katte received Fritz' letter from Triersdorf on August 8th or 9th.
Banning: what do you want to bet he didn't bother to research anything related to AW beyond his casheering? I mean, Ziebura's biography was the first for centuries (since the 18th) as far as I know, because for all that the entire later Hohenzollern family was descended from AW, they were embarassed about this because they drew their acclaim from the Fritz connection - see also Willy the obnoxious claiming "no descendant of Frederick the Great will ever surrender" - and historians rehashing the fact their actual ancestor died in disgrace and in arguments with the great national hero was the last thing they wanted. Post WWII, of course, no one cared anymore for the longest time. So I bet Banning just thought "well, if FW liked him, he really must have been just like FW" without a) looking at the actual evidence, and b) considering that the traits Fritz shared with Dad ensured their distance, not their closeness.
Headcanon: Voltaire and AW were switched at birth. :P
Alas, I need reasonable dates even for my crack fic. How about: Grandpa F1 had a fling with Mme Arouet? Especially since her husband was odious anyway? Jeanne and Fritz: there's an encounter that would be fascinating. In some afterlife of legends. Would he or would he not resist quoting Voltaire's Pucelle? Whatever would she make of his attitude towards religion? Would she, as a female warrior, be an honorary man in his pov?
That's an excellent quote, though.
Voltaire always delivers.
Scandal that never happened: seriously, you have less incriminating quotes from the Borgias. There but for the grace of Fritz' orientation and Wilhelmine's possibly low sex drive go they.
Re: Katte! - The Koser take
Banning: what do you want to bet he didn't bother to research anything related to AW beyond his casheering? I mean, Ziebura's biography was the first for centuries (since the 18th) as far as I know, because for all that the entire later Hohenzollern family was descended from AW, they were embarassed about this because they drew their acclaim from the Fritz connection - see also Willy the obnoxious claiming "no descendant of Frederick the Great will ever surrender" - and historians rehashing the fact their actual ancestor died in disgrace and in arguments with the great national hero was the last thing they wanted. Post WWII, of course, no one cared anymore for the longest time. So I bet Banning just thought "well, if FW liked him, he really must have been just like FW" without a) looking at the actual evidence, and b) considering that the traits Fritz shared with Dad ensured their distance, not their closeness.
Headcanon: Voltaire and AW were switched at birth. :P
Alas, I need reasonable dates even for my crack fic. How about: Grandpa F1 had a fling with Mme Arouet? Especially since her husband was odious anyway?
Jeanne and Fritz: there's an encounter that would be fascinating. In some afterlife of legends. Would he or would he not resist quoting Voltaire's Pucelle? Whatever would she make of his attitude towards religion? Would she, as a female warrior, be an honorary man in his pov?
That's an excellent quote, though.
Voltaire always delivers.
Scandal that never happened: seriously, you have less incriminating quotes from the Borgias. There but for the grace of Fritz' orientation and Wilhelmine's possibly low sex drive go they.