The con artist who led an army to rob a city

Mugshots of Wilhelm Voigt, the Captain of Köpenick, seen frontally as well as sideways in a military uniform.

Meet the shoemaker and con artist who led an army to rob a city. Wilhelm Voigt, from Tilsit, Prussia (now Sovetsk, Russia), was happy to find employment as a shoemaker. He had just settled in Berlin after serving a 15-year sentence for a failed burglary attempt. It was not his first prison term, and it […]