Speaking of AUs: In the where Heinrich accepts the King of the USA job, I'm not sure whether Fritz keeps that citizenship, but okay, he's dead by then.
After I posted this comment, I remembered the Heinrich AU and laughed!
Hm, wouldn't that depend on which side they were fighting on? Also from which German state they're from?
Of course! But there were Germans on both sides of the war, and the most famous Prussian to any modern-day American is von Steuben! I remember having to learn about him something like 5 separate years in school, whereas we learned about Fritz 0 times. Maybe some tax-dodger back then had decided that von Steuben was cool and therefore we need to keep some Prussians and other Fritzians around, idk.
I have no idea whether this speculative reason for the renaming is true, and neither does Wikipedia. I have no idea whether the diarist who apparently doesn't know when the inn was founded (assuming Wikipedia's account can be trusted, though it does sound more plausible) is even right about the citizenship thing as a technicality! But it's definitely funny, and should be included in any AU where Heinrich becomes King of America. ;)
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Re: Citizen of Pennsylvania
Date: 2021-02-07 02:29 pm (UTC)After I posted this comment, I remembered the Heinrich AU and laughed!
Hm, wouldn't that depend on which side they were fighting on? Also from which German state they're from?
Of course! But there were Germans on both sides of the war, and the most famous Prussian to any modern-day American is von Steuben! I remember having to learn about him something like 5 separate years in school, whereas we learned about Fritz 0 times. Maybe some tax-dodger back then had decided that von Steuben was cool and therefore we need to keep some Prussians and other Fritzians around, idk.
I have no idea whether this speculative reason for the renaming is true, and neither does Wikipedia. I have no idea whether the diarist who apparently doesn't know when the inn was founded (assuming Wikipedia's account can be trusted, though it does sound more plausible) is even right about the citizenship thing as a technicality! But it's definitely funny, and should be included in any AU where Heinrich becomes King of America. ;)