Harry Domela

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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).

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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