Counterfeiter: How a Norwegian Jew Survived the Holocaust Paperback - 2011
by Moritz Nachtstern; Ragnar Arntzen
Published for the first time in English, this is an enthralling personal account of the secret Nazi project, Operation Bernhard, devised to destabilize the British and, later, American economies by creating and putting into circulation millions of counterfeit banknotes.
From the jacket flap
In 1940, the Nazis set usecret project inmotion, Operation Bernhard. In 1942, men with certain skills were selected from the concentration, even from those on their way to the gas chambers. The men were transffered to the strictly isolated Block 19 in Sachsenhausen concentrationcamp The prisoners were presented with an normous task: producing counterfeit British bank notes to the value of hundreds of millions of pounds. The notes, considered some of the most perfect counterfeits ever produced, were to be dropped from planes over London to destabilize the British economy. Later in the war, the operation widened to include American dollar bills. One of the men plucked from Auschwitz was a norwegian Jew, Moritz Nachstern. Thi sis his shocking story from his arrest in Oslo, the journey to Germany, the horrors of the camps, and the impossibility of life in Block 19; the prisoners had to prooduce exquisite forgeries, but as slowly as they could, to ensure their own safety for as long as possible.
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- Title Counterfeiter: How a Norwegian Jew Survived the Holocaust
- Author Moritz Nachtstern; Ragnar Arntzen
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Tra Rep
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Lyons Press
- Date 2011-11
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Glossary, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780762779888 / 0762779888
- Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.5 x 1 in (20.07 x 13.97 x 2.54 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1940's
- Cultural Region: Germany
- Topical: Holocaust
- Library of Congress subjects World War, 1939-1945 - Prisoners and, Nachtstern, Moritz
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011037669
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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