Harry Domela

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a trickster who became one of the most infamous personalities of the Roaring Twenties, lived his whole life as a persona ficta.

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In 1918, a putsch was being planned in Berlin when the _____, a private paramilitary organization that 15-year-old Domela was serving in in his home Latvia, received a call.

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Harry Domela

a trickster who became one of the most infamous personalities of the Roaring Twenties, lived his whole life as a persona ficta.

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Freikorps

In 1918, a putsch was being planned in Berlin when the _____, a private paramilitary organization that 15-year-old Domela was serving in in his home Latvia, received a call.

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Hamburg

Domela relocated to ____when he was 20 years old and started playing cards for a living.

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Prince Lieven

He used it to go to Heidelberg, a renowned academic town, where he spent a few weeks disguising himself as _, a lieutenant in the Fourth Reichswehr cavalry unit, Potsdam, and projecting a sense of assurance.

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Fourth Reichswehr

He used it to go to Heidelberg, a renowned academic town, where he spent a few weeks disguising himself as Prince Lieven, a lieutenant in the __ cavalry unit, Potsdam, and projecting a sense of assurance.

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Baron Korff

he then proceeded to the city of Erfurt before that could happen; he made his choice of one of the best hotels, checked in under the name _____, and made a request for one of the top suites.

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Wilhelm of Hohenzollern

The hotel manager saw a remarkable likeness between the new customer with the formal manners and young _, the grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm, the last German monarch.

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Hohenzollerns

Many aristocratic Germans were remained loyal to the _____, the ousted royal dynasty, despite the fact that the monarchy had been dissolved in 1918.

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Your Majesty

When every employee at his hotel greeted him as _____—a sign that news had spread—Domela made a trip to Berlin but swiftly flew back to Erfurt.

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Wilhelm, Prince of Prussia

He finally gave in when the mayor asked him to sign a book during a visit, writing "__."

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Kurland

Harry Domela was born in _, a duchy that had been given up to the Russians in 1795, in 1904 or 1905 to a modest but honorable family (now part of Latvia).

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15

He enlisted in the German volunteer army to fight the Latvians at the age of ___.

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Foreign Legion

Domela made the decision to go to France and enlist in the _____ because of fear that word would get out about the reports and expose him.

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A Sham Prince "The Life and Adventures of Harry Domela"

Harry Domela authored a book titled __ written by himself in Prison at Cologne.

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The False Prince

He also sold the film rights and appeared in __ (1927) when it was made.

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Victor Szakja

He left Germany for the Netherlands in 1933 while posing as _.

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Jef Last

He met __, a left-leaning Dutch author, during one of these events. last introduced Domela to André Gide, a French novelist.

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Vichy France

He was temporarily held by the __ dictatorship in a prison camp until his friend André Gide used his connections to secure his release.

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Last and Gide

Domela then traveled to Belgium where, as an undocumented foreigner, he was dependent on friends like __ for financial assistance.

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Princess Anastasia Romanov

__ of Russia is one royal whose likeness has shown often in impersonations. Bolshevik militants murdered her and her family in 1918.

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Mary Baker

In 1817, ____, a cobbler's daughter, exposes upper-class vanity by posing as Princess Caraboo from the made-up island of Javasu.

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Karl Wilhelm Naundorff

In 1830, __, a Swindler from Germany insists in his last moments that Prince Louis-Charles, the legitimate monarch of France, is not who he claims to be.

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Christophe Rocancourt

In 2004, __, a French imposter who has spent his whole career defrauding investors of their money, has been sentenced to five years in prison.