Oh, was that today? Damn, I should have made a video about it.
There are some crucial details missing from this account. Voigt was a petty criminal, but had been making a genuine effort to leave his life of crime. Unfortunately, Prussian bureaucracy got in the way: his criminal record meant he couldn’t get a job in Prussia, but he also couldn’t get a passport to leave Prussia.
So he staged this heist out of desperation. It is true that the Kaiser found the story hilarious and made sure Voigt got an early release. Voigt was also granted a passport and emigrated to Luxembourg, where he worked as a waiter and a shoemaker, but through his fame became rich enough to be one of the first people in Luxembourg to own a motor-car.
In WW1, when German troops occupied Luxembourg, he was detained and questioned. One soldier wrote in his diary that he found it hard to believe that this pathetic man once shook all of Prussia.
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Oh, was that today? Damn, I should have made a video about it.
There are some crucial details missing from this account. Voigt was a petty criminal, but had been making a genuine effort to leave his life of crime. Unfortunately, Prussian bureaucracy got in the way: his criminal record meant he couldn’t get a job in Prussia, but he also couldn’t get a passport to leave Prussia.
So he staged this heist out of desperation. It is true that the Kaiser found the story hilarious and made sure Voigt got an early release. Voigt was also granted a passport and emigrated to Luxembourg, where he worked as a waiter and a shoemaker, but through his fame became rich enough to be one of the first people in Luxembourg to own a motor-car.
In WW1, when German troops occupied Luxembourg, he was detained and questioned. One soldier wrote in his diary that he found it hard to believe that this pathetic man once shook all of Prussia.