Jack Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 Full story on the front page! Click on the HMVF logo to get there! The man who forged the equivalent of £3 billion in a Nazi plot to bring down the British economy during the Second World War was invited to the Bank of England this week to inspect one of his counterfeit banknotes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enigma Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 Wasn't it part of Operation Bernhard? IIRC after the Italians surrendered the Germans bought their weapons with the funny money. The Brits were surprised to find lots of Italians with Brit. Pounds on them... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 There is an old tale, A Y service unit took over a liberated manision in Northern France, so recently liberated a lot of Axis equipment was still about. While hunting for souveniers a locked box was found. On opening it, with due force, it was found to be full of Five pounds notes. An officer on the spot pronounced it to be the forgieries they had been warned about. There followed a great spree, lighting ciggarettes , using the notes in the ablutions and other such activities. One soldier decided to keep a couple of souveniers. Years later after seeing aTV proggramme on forgeries he took them out of intrest to a local coin dealear. Yep, you guesed! The were real. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Runflat Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 Great film, The Counterfeiters. Who remembers the TV series Private Schulz; fiction, but loosely based around Operation Bernhard? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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