Yeah, wow -- now that I see that whole letter in context that line about struggling to forgive reeeeeally reads to me like it's written in a sort of plausible-deniability way where he is careful not to actually say anything about who he's forgiving (like, if FW ever got hold of this letter, Hans Heinrich could, I think, argue to him that he meant Fritz, who else could he POSSIBLY have meant?) and he never says anything explicitly bad about the King (and his "gracious letters," OMG) but...
2. Is it not comforting that the execution had to happen in Küstrin, to make all the people understand why he was a sacrifice? 3. Also that the war tribunal has not taken his life; it was the intervention of the King.
Okay, these just broke my heart, even more than it was broken already. Like, it's really clear what he thinks from those two lines. Mildred, I think it's even stronger than you said! Not only does he describe him as a sacrifice, but he wants all the people to understand why. :((((((( <3
The King has sent me an information from the files. At first, I had not wanted to read it, but now I would not wish for all the world to be ignorant of this information.
Okay guys, what is this?? Is this the part where the King has told him that it wasn't the war tribunal, it was him specifically? Or... what?
I also found the part about visiting St. Mary Magdalene, that is Ada Lovelace and Byron and her mother, to be very interesting -- I knew that he was her father, but that's pretty much all I knew.
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2. Is it not comforting that the execution had to happen in Küstrin, to make all the people understand why he was a sacrifice?
3. Also that the war tribunal has not taken his life; it was the intervention of the King.
Okay, these just broke my heart, even more than it was broken already. Like, it's really clear what he thinks from those two lines. Mildred, I think it's even stronger than you said! Not only does he describe him as a sacrifice, but he wants all the people to understand why. :((((((( <3
The King has sent me an information from the files. At first, I had not wanted to read it, but now I would not wish for all the world to be ignorant of this information.
Okay guys, what is this?? Is this the part where the King has told him that it wasn't the war tribunal, it was him specifically? Or... what?
I also found the part about visiting St. Mary Magdalene, that is Ada Lovelace and Byron and her mother, to be very interesting -- I knew that he was her father, but that's pretty much all I knew.