The Counterfeiters

An artist in "The Devil's Workshop"

by Lizzi Wolf

posted 5/3/2009

During World War II, dozens of Jews skilled in the printing trade were placed in isolated, top-secret barracks within the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. There, under threat of death, they counterfeited British currency worth more than £130 million. Nazi spies deposited these forged notes in bank accounts throughout Europe. Upon inspection, even the Bank of

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