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„Frederick II regarded Poland as an unlocked storehouse. Having captured the Saxon mint at the start of the war, he struck vast quantities of counterfeit Polish coins which soon drove good money from circulation and caused rampant inflation. Prussian military purchasers could thus easily afford to raise their prices for forage and other supplies to initially grateful Polish landowners. The profits of this mass fraud contributed mightily to the survival of the Prussian state.“

Butterwick, Richard (5 January 2021). „Impasse“. The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1733-1795. Yale University Press. p. 54. ISBN 9780300252200. Retrieved 6 November 2024.

Do they tell anything about him? I don’t remember him at all from my history lessons

he never claimed he wasn’t a thief, in fact, when he got austria to join the first partition he laughed that he got to make a thief out of otherwise morally impeccable Maria Theresa

Common historical knowladge. Anyone a bit intrested in Saxon and Poniatowski era PLC knew this.

The most pathetic thing about this man, however, was how he portrayed himself in his memoirs. Everyone likes to embellish things a little to look good, but this clown flat-out described things he never did and, conversely, wrote that he hadn’t done things he actually did.