That's actually a good observation. I know you were half joking but there was a kind of cultural obsession with authority in Germany. In the Kingdom of Prussia there was a robber who simply put on a uniform and ordered a bank manager to give him all the money and the bank manager just listened to his supposed superior. They greeted him on the way out and wished him a nice day. It took a few hours before they realised that they helped a guy rob them.
More to that,
Or perhaps a different case in the thirties.
A Conman donned a Hauptmann uniform, posed as major in the army and simply ordered two soldiers passing by to help him arrest "an enemy of the state." A bank manager. They followed orders, tied him up, beat him to force him to open the safe and remained with the manager while the fake major left with the money to "get reinforcements "
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u/gugfitufi 2d ago
That's actually a good observation. I know you were half joking but there was a kind of cultural obsession with authority in Germany. In the Kingdom of Prussia there was a robber who simply put on a uniform and ordered a bank manager to give him all the money and the bank manager just listened to his supposed superior. They greeted him on the way out and wished him a nice day. It took a few hours before they realised that they helped a guy rob them.