Captain For A Day! - Wilhelm Voigt

Losers, Pretenders & Scoundrels

Sep 21 2022 • 27 mins

What could you get away with if you looked the part? What if you're trying to trick a bunch of German soldiers with a sense of blind obedience? Wilhelm Voigt managed to commandeer a whole squad and take over a city hall long enough to grab a boatload of cash. Heaton and Young dive into how he did it.

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