Quickly checking Kloosterhuis agan, "General Löwenöhr" seems to be the departing Danish envoy von Vendelbo-Lövenörn. As I recall, Mildred found out he didn't come back
Well, oddly, what I found was that he got recalled by the new Danish king, but new king didn't accede until October 12, and Katte is writing this in August about a conversation that took place in August. So I'm not entirely sure where Lövenörn is going. But he's evidently around to be questioned by FW, at least if Wikipedia can be trusted. Does Kloosterhuis say otherwise?
I translated it as Mildred gave it to me, (...) included, so I'm speaking with the caveat that (...) might hide sentences countersaying what I'm about to point out.
As you probably guessed, I gave you everything I had. Those ellipses were in the only text I was able to get my hands on, alas.
note that Katte is really really careful not to implicate anyone else. Like Peter Keith. No mention of him anywhere.
That is really an excellent point that I missed!
This sentence in particular also stays with me because the deconstructing biographers like Jürgen Luh argue that Fritz didn't really mean to get away, he wanted to make a statement to his father, and I'm sitting here thinking: Um, both?
Right? He seems to have been very conflicted. Of course he wanted to escape, but he wanted his father to love him. That's not unusual if you know the first thing about child abuse!
Mercy/Justice: Katte has a better grip on what Christianity is actually about than FW...
FW: "That doesn't apply to me!" (At least according to the quote in Lavisse.)
So Katte, while giving this confession, had the concentration to make Fritz sound as formal and prince/loyal but respectful servant like as possible in the testimony for his father, and never slipped once.
Ooh, that is another excellent point. And of course, there's that letter that we think was dictated by someone who knew what FW wanted to hear.
Katte kept his head metaphorically throughout this, even if he didn't keep it literally. There seems to be an indication in my secondary sources that he slipped up about the secret library in one of his later interrogations, but I'm still trying to get my hands on that material.
Re: Katte - Species Facti 2
Well, oddly, what I found was that he got recalled by the new Danish king, but new king didn't accede until October 12, and Katte is writing this in August about a conversation that took place in August. So I'm not entirely sure where Lövenörn is going. But he's evidently around to be questioned by FW, at least if Wikipedia can be trusted. Does Kloosterhuis say otherwise?
I translated it as Mildred gave it to me, (...) included, so I'm speaking with the caveat that (...) might hide sentences countersaying what I'm about to point out.
As you probably guessed, I gave you everything I had. Those ellipses were in the only text I was able to get my hands on, alas.
note that Katte is really really careful not to implicate anyone else. Like Peter Keith. No mention of him anywhere.
That is really an excellent point that I missed!
This sentence in particular also stays with me because the deconstructing biographers like Jürgen Luh argue that Fritz didn't really mean to get away, he wanted to make a statement to his father, and I'm sitting here thinking: Um, both?
Right? He seems to have been very conflicted. Of course he wanted to escape, but he wanted his father to love him. That's not unusual if you know the first thing about child abuse!
Mercy/Justice: Katte has a better grip on what Christianity is actually about than FW...
FW: "That doesn't apply to me!" (At least according to the quote in Lavisse.)
So Katte, while giving this confession, had the concentration to make Fritz sound as formal and prince/loyal but respectful servant like as possible in the testimony for his father, and never slipped once.
Ooh, that is another excellent point. And of course, there's that letter that we think was dictated by someone who knew what FW wanted to hear.
Katte kept his head metaphorically throughout this, even if he didn't keep it literally. There seems to be an indication in my secondary sources that he slipped up about the secret library in one of his later interrogations, but I'm still trying to get my hands on that material.