Now I have a completely out-of-the-box HYPOTHETICAL idea of why she sent the card then attempted suicide. Maybe she thought if she made contact with him he would come looking for her, a "cry for help" type of thing for a hurting young woman. So maybe she decided to "jump" when he did not show, or perhaps she never intended to kill herself but be pulled out(ever wonder why she chose a canal instead of a high bridge over a real river if she really wanted to die?) as she was and have him come "save" her? Obviously, the family did not come. You can imagine anything you want here, AA supporters will say it was because she was not FS, I could say it is because they were estranged, not close, or because of financial reasons did not stay in close contact or were unable to travel. We also do not know the actual date the card was mailed or recieved. We do not have a copy of it, only word of mouth which could be incorrect. But it does not matter anyway we now know AA was FS, we can only speculate on her reasons for doing what she did, not her identity.
The information was from FS' brother Felix, and, it is her brother who has voiced that he received his birthday card late and that had said she was sorry because she had been so busy....
This memory of Felix became so important to both sides, pro and anti AA=GD Anastasia, that several things occured.
(1) The envelope and then the card has been misplaced / destroyed.
(2) According to Peter Kurth's book ANASTASIA p. 323-4: >> "We were right back at the beginning," said Donminique Aucleres, "Ground zero." Her point was proved when the lawyers began the tedious process of reviewing the facts--the simple dates, places, and times of the "Anaastasia" affiar, which each of the had to accept as accurate before the trial could proceed. Already Klaus Wagner, the new corespondent for the
Frankfurter Allegmeine, had been "irriated by the profusion of details and the endless possibilites" for arguemnt. Could it be that the judges and lawyers were only
now, after fourty-four years, finally determining the exact date of Anastasia's suicide atempt? But so they were. Efforts had been made after destruction of the Berlin dossiers to move the date ahrad from February 17 to February 27, 1920, a datate that better coincided with the alleged disappearance of Franziska Schanzkowksa.<<
The date 17 Feb. 1920 AA jumped into the canal was not changed.
Massie tells us in his book: Felix, [who's birthday was 17 Feb.,] recieved his [late] birthday card in Feb. of 1920
The date the Wingenders recorded with the police that FS was missing was and still thought to be 9 March 1920.
AGRBear
