remember what Hahn said re: the historiography? Raumer's volume in a century where everthing Fritz was eaten up and became a bestseller almost sank without a trace.
And apparently Hahn, overcompensating in the other direction, didn't buy it either. Why is this so hard, people?!
which, well, is not verified by anyone else's description, including hers. (But it's certainly what he would have heard from the SD corner.)
Ooh, yes, that makes sense.
FW wanted his son broken, but he also wanted him shaved and not living in his excrements.
Indeed. One of their long-standing battlegrounds was that Fritz was careless about hygiene, and FW was fastidious about it, not in a foppish kind of way, but in a spic-and-span Prussian soldier kind of way (my sources said soldiers could get beaten if half a button wasn't polished adequately when they appeared for reviews). I've always thought Fritz's lifelong habits of wiping his ink on his sleeves and basically flouring himself with Spanish snuff might go back a teeeensy bit to this battle for identity against his father. (Soldiers still had to adhere to military standards, but Fritz does what Fritz wants, or sometimes at least the opposite of what Dad wants.)
But he's still a great primary source, even more so for usually saying where he got his intel from.
We love you, Dickens! (I didn't until now, but my inner historiographer now knows that I love you!)
"Take care of Portsmouth, and let not poor Nelly starve."
I had forgotten this quote if I learned it (and I feel like I probably did, since I did read accounts of his deathbed scene). Tongue-in-cheek question: if this is the continental example, does that mean Fredersdorf is "Mike" when Fritz is talking? ;)
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And apparently Hahn, overcompensating in the other direction, didn't buy it either. Why is this so hard, people?!
which, well, is not verified by anyone else's description, including hers. (But it's certainly what he would have heard from the SD corner.)
Ooh, yes, that makes sense.
FW wanted his son broken, but he also wanted him shaved and not living in his excrements.
Indeed. One of their long-standing battlegrounds was that Fritz was careless about hygiene, and FW was fastidious about it, not in a foppish kind of way, but in a spic-and-span Prussian soldier kind of way (my sources said soldiers could get beaten if half a button wasn't polished adequately when they appeared for reviews). I've always thought Fritz's lifelong habits of wiping his ink on his sleeves and basically flouring himself with Spanish snuff might go back a teeeensy bit to this battle for identity against his father. (Soldiers still had to adhere to military standards, but Fritz does what Fritz wants, or sometimes at least the opposite of what Dad wants.)
But he's still a great primary source, even more so for usually saying where he got his intel from.
We love you, Dickens! (I didn't until now, but my inner historiographer now knows that I love you!)
"Take care of Portsmouth, and let not poor Nelly starve."
I had forgotten this quote if I learned it (and I feel like I probably did, since I did read accounts of his deathbed scene). Tongue-in-cheek question: if this is the continental example, does that mean Fredersdorf is "Mike" when Fritz is talking? ;)