The Strange Case of Kaspar Hauser - One

This week, on Tales we’re in Nuremberg, Bavaria: The year is 1828. A young man has appeared as if from out of nowhere with a horrific tale of captivity. Some wonder if he is some deposed price - but be warned, the following is no fairytale. Part one of a Two parter.

Content Warnings: Discussion of war, death, child neglect and imprisonment, violence, conspiratorial thinking and social deception.

Sources Include:

Kaspar Hauser: The Foundling of Nuremberg by Paul Anselm von FeuerbachThe Great Pretenders by Jan BondersonNapoleon the Great by Andrew RobertsAnd Historical Blindness’ excellent Two-Part podcast on Hauser, created by Nathaniel Lloyd.

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