The Devil's Workshop: A Memoir of the Nazi Counterfeiting Operation Burger Adolf
The Devil's Workshop: A Memoir of the Nazi Counterfeiting Operation Burger Adolf One of the most remarkable episodes of the Second World War was the German attempt to forge currency and trigger the…
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The Devil's Workshop: A Memoir of the Nazi Counterfeiting Operation Burger Adolf
One of the most remarkable episodes of the Second World War was the German attempt to forge currency and trigger the economic collapse of the Allies. The plan was known as Operation Bernhard.The forgeries that were produced were virtually undetectable. The counterfeit operation was one of the largest the world has ever seen and lead to the post-war reissue of sterling.At the Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Berlin, Jewish prisoners of 13 different nationalities were forced to work on producing counterfeit pound and dollar notes worth billions.
He recounts the harrowing facts surrounding the murder of his wife Gizela in Only the most senior forgers were able to spot the fakes - even staff at the Bank of England failed to do so.In this extraordinary memoir, the sole surviving Czech counterfeiter, Adolf Burger, describes his wartime experiences.