Historical Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 44

[cahn]

Not only are these posts still going, there is now (more) original research going on in them deciphering and translating letters in archives that apparently no one has bothered to look at before?? (Which has now conclusively exonerated Fritz's valet/chamberlain Fredersdorf from the charge that he was dismissed because of financial irregularities and died shortly thereafter "ashamed of his lost honor," as Wikipedia would have it. I'M JUST SAYING.)

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Re: Katte's less famous final Puncte - Translation

[cahn]

(Reminder, we know this because the Küstrin officers in their letters mention back and thro of messages during the night to that effect, and of course any version of the famous last verbal exchange between Fritz and Katte includes those core elements.)

<3333 Thank you for the reminder! And there's his Puncta to Fritz too <3

he also did not see his affection for Fritz (and vice versa) as such as something wrong but as something good, and wanted to help him as much as he could till he drew his last breath.

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