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Köpenick
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Köpenick (kö`pənĭk), district of Berlin, E Germany, at the confluence of the Spree and Dahme rivers. It is an industrial center and a tourist spot, with forests and large lakes. Köpenick was the scene of the trial (1730) of Crown Prince Frederick (later Frederick II Frederick II or Frederick the Great, 1712–86, king of Prussia (1740–86), son and successor of Frederick William I. Early Life

..... Click the link for more information. ), who had attempted to escape from Prussia to England. In 1906, Wilhelm Voight, a shoemaker dressed as an army captain, imprisoned the mayor of Köpenick (then an independent town), an episode dramatized (1931) by Carl Zuckmayer in Der Hauptmann von Köpenick.
Köpenick
tailor disguised as a captain, takes over city. [Ger. Lit.: Captain from Köpenick, Espy, 173]
See : Disguise
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By Uri Avnery Every German child knows the story of the Captain of Koepenick.
Matter of the Heart by The Palestine Chronicle (Mountlake Terrace, WA)
In July 2005 Mr Wilson flew to Koepenick, in Berlin, with wife Barbara, 77, and daughter Janet, 49, where they unearthed fragments of the bomber's fuselage and human remains.
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A few years earlier the English reading public had relished reports that in Germany an ex-convict who donned military attire and presented himself as a captain had successfully cowed a squad of unwitting soldiers into assisting him in "arresting" the burgomeister and confiscating the treasury of Koepenick, a suburb of Berlin.
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