I'll also link to this interview with Hahn, conducted in 2012.
Are there really no population statistics from Brandenburg-Prussia in Friedrich's lifetime? I had always assumed that there were statistics, but that they were inevitably unreliable as most population statistics were at that time.
His remarks about the relationship between Fritz/Wilhelmine and FW remind me a lot of Nancy Mitford. Actual quote from her book: "If he [Fritz] was beaten, starved, humiliated and generally ill-treated it was to a large extent his own fault and his mother's." Yikes.
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Re: Peter-Michael Hahn
Date: 2020-03-01 03:56 pm (UTC)Are there really no population statistics from Brandenburg-Prussia in Friedrich's lifetime? I had always assumed that there were statistics, but that they were inevitably unreliable as most population statistics were at that time.
His remarks about the relationship between Fritz/Wilhelmine and FW remind me a lot of Nancy Mitford. Actual quote from her book: "If he [Fritz] was beaten, starved, humiliated and generally ill-treated it was to a large extent his own fault and his mother's." Yikes.