Counterfeiter: how a Norwegian Jew survived the Holocaust

Nachtstern, Moritz

Counterfeiter: how a Norwegian Jew survived the Holocaust - Osprey 2008 - 288 p., [16] p. of plates

Includes index

In 1940 the Nazis set a secret project in motion whereby typographers and printers on their way to the gas chambers were transfered to a concentration camp where they were charged with counterfeiting hundreds of thousands of British bank notes. One of the typographers here shares his story.


Translated from the Norwegian

9781846032899 184603289X


Nachtstern Moritz


Sachsenhausen Concentration camp


Operation Bernhard, Germany, 1940-1945
World War, 1939-1945--Counterfeit money
Counterfeits and counterfeiting--History--Germany--20th century
World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Norway

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