Kaspar Hauser

PEOPLE

It took one fatal error for Kaspar Hauser to go from sympathetic figure and victim of a shadowy captor to complete fraud.

EDITORIAL

One day in May 1828, a mysterious young man was wandering the streets of Nuremberg, Germany. He encountered a local shoemaker, who found that the man was carrying two letters. One of them was addressed...



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