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How a poor cobbler from East Prussia robbed the city of Köpenick and got away with it

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Oct 16, 2024
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A postcard - almost a comic strip - telling the story of the Köpenickiade: Voigt’s successful robbing of the local city hall.

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On this day, October 16th, 1906 one Wilhelm Voigt, an impoverished cobbler and ex-convict from Tilsit in East Prussia (now Russian Sowetsk), pulled a legendary trick on the local authorities in the then still independent city of Köpenick.

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