April 5, 2024
ww 2 propaganda forgery of united kingdom £50 pound note. (operation bernhard)
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Operation Bernhard was the codename of a secret Nazi plan devised during the Second World War by the RSHA and the SS to destabilise the British economy by flooding the country with forged Bank of England £ 5, £10, £20, and £50 notes . It was the largest counterfeiting operation in history and has been dramatised in books, the BBC comedy-drama mini series Private Schulz and a 2007 Oscar -winning Austrian film , The Counterfeiters (Die Fälscher). Operation Bernhard Banknotes - or Bernhards as they are commonly referred to were produced by approximately 150 'volunteers', who were, in fact, Polish and Jewish prisoners in Block 19 of Sachsenhausen concentration camp. The Nazis produced vast quantities of counterfeit English Banknotes, overseen by Staatssckreiner (Chief of Police of the General Government) Friederich Walter Bernhard Krueger. The Nazis wanted to undermine the British Economy by air dropping the banknotes over Britain, but, they abandoned this idea in favour of the more subtle approach of buying goods and materials in neutral countries, also by paying their spies and agents - the most notable spy being 'Cicero'. In 1945 the Nazis tried to hide the evidence of Operation Bernhard in the Enns River, the Traun River and Lake Toplitzsee, this sale is for a original German forgery of a B.S Catterns £50 pound note. hi, will
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