During the Second World War, SS Intelligence devised an unusual weapon to sabotage the British war effort—one made entirely of paper. Known as Operation Bernhard, this secret Nazi initiative became the largest currency forgery operation in history, eventually producing counterfeit notes worth over three billion pounds in today's money. The operation was carried out by a group of 104 Jewish prisoners, confined to a hidden workshop within the Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Berlin. Under constant threat of death, these prisoners displayed extraordinary skill, creating counterfeit banknotes so convincing that the Bank of England would later call them "the most dangerous forgeries ever seen."
#operationbernhard #worldwar2 #hitlerfacts #ww2 #secondworldwar #history #historyfacts #nazigermany #worldwar #britain #nazis #ww2facts #worldwarii