Jim Wald<p>The <a href="https://historians.social/tags/Nazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nazis</span></a> went from calmly noting the death of <a href="https://historians.social/tags/FDR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FDR</span></a> to seeing it as an omen of miraculous delivery, echoing that of Russian Empress Elizabeth in 1762 <a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/historical-journal/article/abs/britain-prussia-russia-and-the-galitzin-letter-a-reassessment/8D3184A02EC139B13C6EB639BDF476B3" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cambridge.org/core/journals/hi</span><span class="invisible">storical-journal/article/abs/britain-prussia-russia-and-the-galitzin-letter-a-reassessment/8D3184A02EC139B13C6EB639BDF476B3</span></a></p><p>Even serious historians often erroneously speak of the death of Catherine the Great (r 1762-96) <a href="https://historians.social/tags/WTF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WTF</span></a><br>5/5</p>