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A 300th birthday that caused a stir. Hardly any other monarch has left such a deep mark on the consciousness of the Germans as the Prussian King Frederick the Great. But the image of the legendary Hohenzollern remains contradictory. For his admirers he is the enlightened statesman, the pioneering reformer, the brilliant general; for his critics he is a cynic, a rigid power politician and the founding father of Prussian militarism.