#Through what I've read so far I know that Karl greatly lamented 3 deaths in the field (his uhh Rittmeister I think it was | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

bakerstreetdoctor · 2 months ago

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Btw I'm seriously suspecting Sigmund Schott ENTIRELY came up with the "He was my best friend" shit Karl supposedly said upon learning of Max's death, because afaik we don't even know when or through whom he learned of his death. But I guess it prints nicely on a title page. However, I'm not even started with my sources on Karl, so we'll see.

#personal #max and karl #next is Max Schürer von Waldheim (the book I bought online)#which again is about Max but afaik it is the last work that exists specifically on him #Through what I've read so far I know that Karl greatly lamented 3 deaths in the field (his uhh Rittmeister I think it was #his chamber page and then his older sister)#So the postulated common thesis that he was always emotionally controlled and stoic about this stuff is obviously not true #He was just socially awkward which doesn't mean that losing his soldiers and esp officers didn't hurt him #just because he didn't express it and it needed a certain threshold of emotional pain for it to happen #God I need to wipe the floor with some of those self-named “experts” (misinterpreting fanboys)

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