operation bernhard, germany, 1940-1945

In 1945 Moritz Nachstern sat down in his Oslo apartment to tell the story of how he survived the Holocaust. Seven hundred and seventy-one Jews from Norway were taken during the German occupation of 1940-45. He was one of only thirty-four who came back. He nearly died in Auschwitz before he was selected for the Sachsenhausen concentration camp and the isolated Block 19. The SS watched the occupants of Block 19 carefully for it was these men who produced perfect counterfeit British and American money for the Nazis.

Reveals the secret Nazi plot to counterfeit British pounds and scatter the all over the United Kingdom in the hopes of destabilizing the British economy and how the Jewish prisoners whom the Nazis found to create the counterfeit bills helped stop the plot.