one calls a form of the Hochstapelei, becomes erschlichen with which by usurpation obedience. The expression decreases/goes back to an event of 1906 in the city with Berlin, when the unemployed person shoemaker William Voigt spent itself as a captain, demanded from the mayor the publication of the city branch and let him arrest. This served Carl Zuckmayers comedy the captain of A German comedy and later films of the same name than collecting main.

A Kpenickiade took place in April 1945 in the Ems country: The Gefreite Willi Herold spent itself as a captain and lets in the camp Aschendorfermoor over one hundred prisoners shoot. After a war crimes trial against Herold and six codefendants in August 1946 Herold is executed in November 1946.

see also: Captain of

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• Newspaper report over the "Henker of Ems country"

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