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Counterfeiter: How a Norwegian Jew Survived the Holocaust de Moritz Nachtstern

Counterfeiter: How a Norwegian Jew Survived the Holocaust

Autor Moritz Nachtstern, Ragnar Arntzen Traducere de Margrit Rosenberg Stenge
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 oct 2011
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. A team of typographers and printers was pulled out of the rows of prisoners on their way to the gas chambers and transferred to the strictly isolated Block 19 in Sachsenhausen concentration camp. There they were presented with the enormous task of producing almost perfect counterfeits to the value of hundreds of millions of pounds sterling. These notes were to be dropped from bombers over London, with the aim of causing financial chaos. When the time came the Luftwaffe's resources were fully committed in other campaigns and theaters but some of the currency was successfully used to fund operations in Germany's secret war.
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ISBN-13: 9780762779888
ISBN-10: 0762779888
Pagini: 254
Dimensiuni: 140 x 201 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Lyons Press

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Moritz Nachtstern (1902-1969), was a Norwegian-Jewish typographer deported from Oslo in 1942. This is his story, as told to his wife and written down by her, then edited by journalist Ragnar Arntzen. It was originally published in Norwegian in 1949. It covers the three terrible years from his arrest and transportation to Germany, through the horrors of life in Auschwitz and Sachsenhausen to his escape in the last chaotic and terrifying days as the liberating American forces approached. At the center of this personal tale of courage and endurance is Nachtstern's absorbing description of how, in order to survive, he participated in the creation of exquisite forgeries, while working as slowly as possible, both to frustrate the Nazi plan and to ensure that he and his fellow forgers never became expendable.

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In 1945 Moritz Nachtstern sat down in his Oslo apartment and dictated the story of how he survived the Holocaust. He was one of 771 Jews deported from Norway during the German occupation of 1940 45; he was one of only thirty-four who came back. In Auschwitz he endured horrific conditions and came close to death several times before being selected for the Sachsenhausen concentration camp and the isolated Block 19. Here, under the watchful eye of their SS guards, he and other skilled prisoners worked to produce perfect counterfeit British, and later American, banknotes for their captors. All were acutely aware that once they had served their purpose, they would not be allowed to live. Moritz Nachtstern captures the atmosphere inside Block 19, as portrayed in the Oscar-winning film The Counterfeiters, from his arrival in 1943 to the last chaotic days of the Second World War. First published in Norwegian in 1949, this English edition is complemented by a foreword by his daughter Sidsel and essays by Norwegian historian Bjarte Bruland and Lawrence Malkin, author of Krueger's Men: The Secret Nazi Counterfeit Plot and the Prisoners of Block 19."

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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.