Had a quick look at the reports. Definitely the same language and phrasing as the pamphlet, so, they either were written by the same person or draw on the same source.
The reports in general are reasonably good in terms of what they claim, but far from error free. The last but one report is sure Fritz has renounced his right to the succession post Katte's execution, for example, and the report writer says that while this isn't yet generally known, he himself has seen the conditions, and quotes from them. (They incliude the promise never to claim the crown of Prussia at a later point, either.)
Now, obviously this did not happen, and in fact the whole reeducation program was in a way a confirmation that FW had decided to keep Fritz as Crown Prince after all. But I think it's possible someone leaked the October FW demand for Fritz to renounce his place in the sucession to the envoy, and Fritz' survival as opposed to Katte's execution was first interpreted as a sign he'd given in.
Also: the writer earlier says for all that FW is pissed off at the Brits, in actual fact he owes them because he, the writer, happens to know they tried to discourage, not encourage Fritz.
Wow, people really haven't gotten the memo about Catt.
Which is really weird, the more I think about it. I mean, the preface to the 1884 edition of his diary really lays it out in point by point detail. This is not news, even though it was to us. And yet, no one ever doubts Catt. (As opposed to most of the other memoirists.) I can only conclude that even the biographers who did go to the trouble of reading the diary as well as the memoirs skipped the preface...
Re: Katte! - Envoy reports
The reports in general are reasonably good in terms of what they claim, but far from error free. The last but one report is sure Fritz has renounced his right to the succession post Katte's execution, for example, and the report writer says that while this isn't yet generally known, he himself has seen the conditions, and quotes from them. (They incliude the promise never to claim the crown of Prussia at a later point, either.)
Now, obviously this did not happen, and in fact the whole reeducation program was in a way a confirmation that FW had decided to keep Fritz as Crown Prince after all. But I think it's possible someone leaked the October FW demand for Fritz to renounce his place in the sucession to the envoy, and Fritz' survival as opposed to Katte's execution was first interpreted as a sign he'd given in.
Also: the writer earlier says for all that FW is pissed off at the Brits, in actual fact he owes them because he, the writer, happens to know they tried to discourage, not encourage Fritz.
Wow, people really haven't gotten the memo about Catt.
Which is really weird, the more I think about it. I mean, the preface to the 1884 edition of his diary really lays it out in point by point detail. This is not news, even though it was to us. And yet, no one ever doubts Catt. (As opposed to most of the other memoirists.) I can only conclude that even the biographers who did go to the trouble of reading the diary as well as the memoirs skipped the preface...