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How Kaiser Escaped Assassin Averted Plot by Minckwitz
An account by Count Heltzendorff details the discovery of the Polish agent Minckwitz posing as a musician and plotting to kill the Kaiser. The Prince’s adjutant and allies uncover the scheme, extract a bomb from a book, and prompt Minckwitz’s arrest in Paris for blackmail and conspiracy.
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Hohenzollern
Kaiser
Crown Prince
Count Ernst von Heltzendorff
William Lequeux
William le Queux
Ernst von Heltzendorff
Europe
Great Britain
Germany
LeQueux
Ufe
Count von Heltzendorff
France
le Queux
Lfe
Hohenzollerns
Thorn
Heltzendorff
Minckwitz
Count von Minckwitz
Duke of
Saxe-Alt
Potsdam
Marmor
Willie
Altona
Count Son Minckwitz
Knot
Neues Palais
Berlin
Wolff
Schloss
Oels
Silesia
Count von Reisenbach
Prince of Schambourg-Lippe
von Heidkamper
Bavarian Light Cavalry
Wille
Karl von Pappenheim
Oxford
London
von Pappenheim
Erfurt
Margarete
Marmer Palace
Caesar
von Hochberg
Karl
Luisa
Saxony
von Heltzendorff
Paris
Hanover
Kirchroderstrasse
Kleefeld
Sembach
Herr Minckwitz
Hartwieg
Burgstrasse
Brosch
Herschedstrasse
Professor Nebendahl
Minckvitz
Pinaud
Surete
Montmartre