Question
A Bernard Wasserstein book titled The Secret Lives of [this man] records how he fled to Shanghai, where he established a Buddhist monastery under the name Chao Kung. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this conman who served as an MP for Darlington in the House of Commons before allegedly spying for Germany in World War I. He later claimed to be the Dalai Lama with the backing of the Japanese government.
ANSWER: Ignaz Trebitsch Lincoln [or Ignaz Timothy Trebitsch Lincoln; or Ignatius Trebitsch Lincoln]
[10m] After World War I, Trebitsch took part in this failed 1920 counter-revolutionary coup against the Weimar Republic, during which he met Adolf Hitler. Walther von Lüttwitz was the primary coördinator of this coup.
ANSWER: Kapp Putsch [or Kapp-Lüttwitz Putsch]
[10e] Josef Meisinger, a liaison for this organization in East Asia, recommended Trebitsch as a potential Nazi spy during World War II. Hermann Goering established this secret police force of Nazi Germany.
ANSWER: Gestapo
<Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford, European History>
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