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    Operation Bernhard was an exercise by Nazi Germany to forge British bank notes. The initial plan was to drop the notes over Britain to bring about a collapse...
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    Jewish typographer, memoir writer, and Holocaust survivor involved in Operation Bernhard. The film The Counterfeiters, based largely on his memoirs, won the...
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  • Opération Persil was a 1960 covert operation by the French government aimed at destabilising the post-independence government of Guinea due to Guinean...
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    Switzerland, in June 2009. In the United States, counterfeiters in small operations develop the fake currency using tools which often include printers, an...
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    Bernhard Krüger (German pronunciation: [ˈbɛʁnhaʁt ˈkʁyːɡɐ]; 26 November 1904 – 3 January 1989) was a member of the NSDAP, SS Sturmbannführer (Major) during...
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    1976) was a Jewish counterfeiter and Holocaust survivor involved in Operation Bernhard. In the 2007 film The Counterfeiters based on Adolf Burger's memoirs...
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  • film written and directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky. It fictionalizes Operation Bernhard, a secret plan by Nazi Germany during World War II to destabilize...
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  • for counterfeit money detected by banks, even if it is confiscated. Operation Bernhard was a counterfeit campaign conducted by the Nazi regime to flood the...
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    Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (German: [ˈɡeːɔʁk ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈbɛʁnhaʁt ˈʁiːman] ; 17 September 1826 – 20 July 1866) was a German mathematician who made...
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    After the start of the World War II in September 1939 the German Operation Bernhard attempted to counterfeit various denominations between £5 and £50...
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    sterling notes were claimed to have been dumped in the lake after Operation Bernhard, which was never fully put into action. In 1959, investigators recovered...
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    heavy water produced to commemorate WWII's Operation Gunnerside. A printing plate used in Operation Bernhard, an exercise by Nazi Germany to forge British...
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  • government has been wary of large banknotes since the counterfeiting Operation Bernhard during World War II, which caused the Bank of England to withdraw...
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  • municipality in Thuringia Sànkt Bernhàrd, Alsace, France Bernhard-Theater Zürich, a theater in Zürich, Switzerland Operation Bernhard, a German World War II plot...
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    Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld (later Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands; 29 June 1911 – 1 December 2004) was Prince of the Netherlands from 6 September...
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    used counterfeit notes with a face value of £100,000 forged under Operation Bernhard to help obtain information.[citation needed] Skorzeny used information...
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    German SS-Sturmbannführer who participated as the sales manager of Operation Bernhard during World War II under the control of the Reich Security Main Office...
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    counterfeit British bank notes with a face value of £100,000, forged under Operation Bernhard). It was determined that Mussolini was being imprisoned at Campo Imperatore...
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  • 1850) David Farnsworth Bernhard Krüger (1904–1989) — director of the Nazi counterfeiting plot codenamed Operation Bernhard Ignazio Lupo (1877–1947)...
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  • Gilbert Choquette - La Forge et la flamme 1985 - Alexander Lahaye - Opération Bernhard II Roy, Philippe (2008). Le Livre Français Au Québec, 1939-1972 (in...
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    for their services with hard currency rather than banknotes. Under Operation Bernhard, the Nazis planned to collapse the British economy by flooding the...
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    impossible to detect." Counterfeit United States currency Operation Bernhard—a similar operation run by Nazi Germany during the Second World War with forged...
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    Hauptmann's handwriting, by expert Albert S. Osborn, was crucial Operation Bernhard, a secret Nazi plan to destabilize the British economy through counterfeited...
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    of the Bank of England. Fearful of mass forgery by the Nazis (see Operation Bernhard), all notes for £10 and above ceased production, leaving the bank...
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    Helmuth Karl Bernhard Graf von Moltke (German: [ˈhɛlmuːt fɔn ˈmɔltkə]; 26 October 1800 – 24 April 1891) was a Prussian field marshal. The chief of staff...
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    time on 22 November 1928. During the Second World War, the German Operation Bernhard attempted to counterfeit denominations between £5 and £50, producing...
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  • based on the real, though unrealised, plot by the Germans known as Operation Bernhard, he persuades his superiors to authorise a project to print counterfeit...
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    made about one-half of his payments in counterfeit bank notes under Operation Bernhard. According to Mummer Kaylan, author of The Kemalists: Islamic Revival...
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  • efforts to produce counterfeit British banknotes as part of Operation Bernhard. Today, the firm employs approximately 200 employees worldwide in...
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    design office files and participated in the post-war Operation Backfire). The Operation Bernhard forced labor team at Sachsenhausen concentration camp...
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