Operation Bernhard
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Operation Bernhard was an exercise by Nazi Germany to forge British bank notes. The initial plan was to drop the notes over Britain to bring about a collapse of the British economy during the Second W
A £5 note (white fiver) forged by Sachsenhausen concentration camp prisoners
Vignette of Britannia that appeared in the top left of the British notes
Alfred Naujocks, who oversaw Operation Andreas
SS Major Bernhard Krüger, shown after his capture in 1946
Adolf Burger
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Adolf Burger was a Czech Jewish typographer, memoir writer, and Holocaust survivor involved in Operation Bernhard. The film The Counterfeiters, based largely on his memoirs, won the 2007 Academy Award
Operation Bernhard
…submersible that was used to search the wreck of RMS Titanic was used to survey the lake floor, and several boxes of notes were recovered, witnessed by Adolf Burger, a former prisoner involved in the counterfeiting operation. On seeing the quality of the notes, one bank official described them as "the most dangerous…
Burger in Paris, 2008