Frederick the Great of Prussia
Great Lives
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The History of Prussia
Adolf Hitler greatly admired him and had a portrait of him hanging in his own sitting room. Has that affected the way that he's been seen? No, people think he will. We don't want to think someone great whom Adolf Hitler thought was great. He tends to be introduced as an enlightened, absolutist monarch. And students then have to decide whether they think that makes them a great German Prussian or not.
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