A shoemaker tricks German soldiers into helping him rob a mayor - October 17th, 1906

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On this day in 1906, a German shoemaker named Friedrich Wilhelm Voigt impersonated an army officer and tricked a group of soldiers into helping him commit a daring robbery.

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