The $3B Nazi Forgery Intended To Bring About The Collapse Of British Economy | Operation Bernhard
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- Опубліковано 26 лют 2017
- During the Second World War SS Intelligence developed a secret weapon to undermine and ruin the British war effort - it was a weapon made of paper. Operation Bernhard - the Nazi codename for this covert project - became the biggest currency forgery in history, counterfeiting, at today’s value, over three billion pounds. The 104-strong workforce who produced the money were all Jewish prisoners isolated in a special workshop at Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Berlin. With the threat of death hanging over them they skilfully printed banknotes, which the Bank of England described as: “the most dangerous forgeries ever seen”. For the first time four of these Jewish prisoners speak out about their enforced collaboration with the Nazis, what happened to the fake millions they produced, and how they themselves survived, by a miracle, to tell the story.
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when was this video taken?
Dulles Brothers were behind this.
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This is such a fascinating story, that I never knew I was missing out on. It is absolutely incredible how talented these men were.
And so were the prisoners.
"The counterfeiters" is a great film made about this story 😊
In the early 1980's the BBC made a comedy series called "Private Schulz" based on this operation.
"Respectable bankers"
One of the most insulting lines ever.
Respectable bankers a contradiction in terms if I ever heard one
At 3:26 that man saying as a child he was ashamed he didn’t protect his father better. That killed me , it hit me so deep. Have you ever seen your parent so devastated and sad that you wished you could take their pain? I have and as a child it shook metro the core. 😭
LeTang , you are so right . It’s so terrible to think people suffered this way.
that's why as a parent, you need to try to absolutely never let your children see that pain. Not saying everyone has that kinda strength but the reality is your doing your children a great disservice otherwise. It can mess up a child for life.
@ImNotMad ButUR my comment wasn't about the people about to be sent to the gass chamber but in general everyday life sadness. Like losing a loved one to illness. Like, don't let yourself become depressed kind of thing. You've got to try your hardest not to let them see you constantly sad.
because of how sesitive a child is. With atrocities I think its different. The absolute horror of knowing your about to be murdered is something that is beyond the scope of any kind of everyday event.
Imagine the even worse horror the father felt, unable to,protect his child!
As a history lover, knowing of all sides and their tales of pain before, during and after the war this got to me. Having heard of this project it was a good episode of learning. In all senses.
Quite informative. Thank you. Hope to see more.
That story about him seeing his dad dead made me cry I feel so bad for him I’m sorry that happened
Great documentary...thanks for posting it up!!
Danny
"Cause massive inflation"
Huh. I wonder where they got that idea.
This is agitprop from the MI6.
Thank you for posting this.
I love they out lived their captors.
Not really, or did you miss that the Bernhard repsonsible for this project survived the war and dived to the "treasure" in Austria in mid 80s
Just don't holiday in South America...
Susan, you would hate to know the actual truth regarding the number of NAZI's that survived the end of WW2. They are everywhere, in every continent, even in Australia of all countries.
They ate more rats too.
A few did yes. But when compared to the millions....
It is so important that this story was documented.
Amazing the cruelty and pain that one person can inflict on another. God save us from each other.
Humans.......suck
that poor man with the memory of his dying , ,bleeding father , beaten like that...hes still suffering thinking of it...
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jessie james that is true thats why I dont blame the Israelis who hunted down the nazis in Argentina and every corner of the world
" Mr. Hubert was sent to Buchenwald. ''In the camp there was a cage with a bear and an eagle,'' he said. ''Every day, they would throw a Jew in there. The bear would tear him apart and the eagle would pick at his bones.'' ''But that's unbelievable,'' whispered a visitor. ''It is unbelievable,'' said Mr. Hubert, ''but it happened.'' "
www.nytimes.com/1988/11/10/world/time-too-painful-to-remember.html
@@healthnut3165 you think that's funny?
Amazing story! Subscribed.
thanks for posting , fascinating .
Thank you for documenting this part of history I knew nothing about.
There are books on it. One that I have is excellent.
Great video, thanks, I salute these survivors.
wow what a story of survival....and other ....thank you for posting this
Great channel- I love history
Excellent. Thank you very much!
This deserves to be a movie
Perfect documentary like always you are the best 👌🙏
I cant believe I've never heard of this story! It would make a great movie
Watch the counterfeiters.
@Russ Gallagher Private Shultz
Amadou Birken ...This is about the most truthful comment about this.
You're right, their story deserves a well made movie
www.imdb.com/title/tt0813547/
Absolutely fascinating documentary.
I'd never heard of this story before.
I'm proud to be English and for what my grandfathers and families went through.
This channel is 100% worth subscribing to as they have some exceptional & interesting documentaries.
How can anybody be proud to be of any nationality? You didn't do anything to be born into your nationality. Nor did anybody else. It was an accident of history, nothing more.
Don't u feel ashamed for what ur predecessors did in India, Africa and other parts of the world?
@@OfficialAdiJaythat’s correct so modern white people shouldn’t feel like they need to tread on egg shells for being born white
Dave mate, you understand that the vast majority of people in the uk and the surrounding nations are all of Germanic heritage? England was invaded multiple times by the Nordic countries, maybe you missed the Norman invasion in your history class or it’s not taught.
What a complicated thing history is. It's amazing how little we know of it and how much it comes to control us
Deep ,very deep
For anyone who thinks he or she has it rough today just because of how spoiled rotten even people in poverty. .. nothing compares to what people went through. Even myself. Be more thankful for just being able to get up every day and know that you are very fortunate to have what you have. The more people start learning about this history the better off you are. There are plenty of great informative documentaries relative to this.... Thank you for posting.
Well done in making this about you. I don’t see any of these men putting down the suffering of some of those alive today. You don’t know what is happening to everyone today. Just think of others occasionally, it might make you happier.
i am amazed how they told them how to make the banks notes better by not being to clinical
Thank you for sharing this great documentary: their testimonies are deeply moving. Let’s never forget the horrors hatred, prejudice and dehumanizing others leads to. Those incredible and talented men are all gone now. They survived the holocaust and found the strength to build a life for themselves after, but obviously remained traumatized for life. I hope they found everlasting peace now.
Good work. Thank you.
This is one of the best Timeline episodes I have ever seen. These good men endured, suffered and made exceptions wherever necessary -- to outlive their cruel masters who treated them as "intelligent cattle." No doubt each of these good men carries full knowledge and comprehension of the extent to which men can do evil. But as I watched this excellent video unfold, I kept thinking -- this earthly life is not the place of judging; except inasmuch as we men are able to render it. Instead, though they may think otherwise, the evil and cruel don't escape their ultimate destiny -- which occurs at the moment immediately following their heart's final beats, their lungs' final breaths.
How terribly verbose.
I read about this as a kid and High School junior high and I was totally impressed with the story was totally amazing and here it is documentary on it super thank you
very NUANCED docu
Lovely narrator 's voice
ps
how LUCKY those WERE
Sort of a heart warming story
Well done!
Thank-you for showing the world these mens stories. I teared up in the final 7 mins of the video, the look on their faces when the Americans came at noon is unreeling.
When I was teenager I saw a movie that was based on this around 1978. Thanks for posting this documentary
ANY MORE INFO on that?
Amazing story! Thanks for sharing! The CREATOR bless you all near and far!
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On the Poster
The Money Maker banden kapple = The Money Maker Gang Orchester
XD they did indeed kept there humor
Excellent video 👍👍👍
There is a beautiful portrait of Reginald Pole in Lambeth Palace. Lambeth was open to the public for tours in the summer of 2000. It was part of the String of Pearls opened for just that summer.
Those crooks, simply giving away the money? Of course they would find a way to pocket as much as possible
A lesson to us: No how bad things seem, or the tendency that all is over for you, hang on: your miracle is on the way.
This is a really touching story.
where was the miracle for the 6 million who didn't survive the camps?
I loved 'Private Schultz' - did NOT know it was based on a true story... brilliant.
@Forrest Trump Cheers may watch it
Schultz was my favorite. This story was also done and called "The Counterfeiter". It didnt have the comic touch thatSchultz had, and which I think was prbably closer to the truth. They were a bubling bunch. Comic opera.
They should make a movie about that story, very interesting.
The Counterfeiters is the name of the film that was made of this story.
There are so many movies that should be made----it's absoluteĺy amazing.
The COUNTERFEITERS, 2007
Thank you very much.
Frightfully awesome...
Incredible artists.
They made a show about this
Called "Private Shultz"
I remember that was back in
1982
2:50 even 80 or 90 yrs later this man gets so emotional talking about it. Those memories still haunt him till this day. Never forget!! This was one of the most heinous crime against humanity! I couldn't even imagine being in a situation like that. May peace be with these survivors.
oh my, lord please give to those who endured so much and to endure further on in silent suffering, let them have their peace and let them have their forgiveness. for those men and woman in the camps it had to have been horrifying. With this lesson i have learnt,, at the cost of others suffering, i have learnt, humility and humanity to be grateful for all that i have,because compared to that, i live like a king,, and i am on a fixed income. all my prayers to all those who had suffer such horror.
Well said . My heart goes to those who suffered . I
Pray to God almighty to bring peace and justice for the whole World . Ameen .
Amen Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior.
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now do a doc about the $100 bills distributed in Syria that led to the current security features in American paper currency...
America doesnt have paper money.
It's made from cotton.
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I cant believe so many people did not know about this
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Counterfeiters_(2007_film)
This would make an incredible movie! Wow
Not "would", but "did": ua-cam.com/video/ch49HBf_aM8/v-deo.html
when i say it, i live it. as is life. say freedom. say victory. say peace.
Trainspotting was over 20 years ago pal...
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@@truescotsman4103 Reading your silly comment hurt his brain as it did mine.
What a great story and thanks
What an impressive documentary!
Its started all over again. The survivors are already saying the same.
What year is this doc from?
Request timeline to publish a book on these brave people.
Walter Hagen wrote a very interesting book
on the subject.
These men were the lucky ones. Walk a day in their boots before you insult them.
Live one day more!!!This is Legendary tale!!!
They made a show about this
Called "Private Shultz"
I remember that was back in
1982
I loved it loved it so you know how I can see it in america
In the '80s, the BBC did a great comedy/drama version of this plot called "Private Schulz." Brilliant.
I have the Box-set; starring the excellent Michael Elphick and Ian Richardson RIP. Wonderfully dark, funny and very British.
Got it on DVD, brilliant! I remember watching it on TV back in ye olden days when there were only 3 channels.
That BBC show was moronic. They tried to make fun of the Germans like the whole operation was a dopey failure. The only dopes were the stupid British because this German operation was very successful.
@@haroldfiedler6549 About as successful as German jet fighters: a clever idea but scarcely a bump in the road to Berlin.
@ImNotMad ButUR I could come up with 100 reasons, but I'll give you just one. Long after everyone else rid themselves of their kings and queens and royal families, in Britain the whole sleazy enterprise is still going. I don't know how many millions of dollars are siphoned off to keep these horse-faced fools in the green, but it's a scandal of "royal" proportions.
And 75 years later we are now counterfeiting the currency ourselves. 2020
And there are a few netflix shows about counterfeiting - good girls / money heist / AND. Trumps designated survivor is named David Bernhardt...
Yes
A lot of those notes still circulated in several countries. It’s been said that until England took those currency notes out of circulation, you could easily have been handed those counterfeit notes and spent them, even deposited them into banks. They were that perfect.
I watched a bbc drama series in the eighties called private schultz starring Michael elphick which was based on this story,it was very well made
The only problem is, the counterfeiters can't keep up with any normal government in putting out new money. There just aren't enough printing presses around.
There was a British black comedy/ drama in 1981 called Private Schulz based on this story. It starred Michael Elphick, Billie Whitelaw and Ian Richardson. Terrific show, some parts are hysterical and Richardson does a Petter Sellers and plays three different characters. Check it out.
Stay well everyone!
I've handled both original notes and the Operation Bernhard counterfeits, and they were very good and would have only gotten better as time went on. They could have destroyed the British banking system given enough time. Dropping them from aircraft would not have worked, though. It would have attracted too much attention and the government would have been suspicious of the notes right away. Sneaking it in by covert means and having spies across the country spending it into circulation would have worked better. It would have been less noticeable.
Still in all it was a sound plan. If you had a bill that's so close to the real deal that the authorities can't distinguish, then that's more valuable than any weapon in the field.
I used to be a printer. This is fascinating.
one of the most fascinating stories of WW2
They were not pound notes (as the narrator keeps saying) but five pound notes (as the film shows).
The Nazis never distributed them, but they did use them to pay various German spies, including 'Cicero' (Elysesa Bazna) an Albanian who worked at the British embassy in Istanbul, Turkey, who passed on secrets to the Germans throughout the 1940s. (He was the subject of the film '5 Fingers' starring James Mason).
He was never caught or jailed for spying but when he tried to use his forged five pound notes to buy a hotel in Ankera he was caught and jailed for passing counterfeit money (the bank of England realised immediately they were forgeries).
He sued the West German government for paying him with counterfeit money and to try and get them to reimburse him with genuine notes, but did not succeed and lost his case.
He does not say they were "One Pound" notes and he also refers to them as "Fivers."
Poor dude swindled by the Nazis.
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@@Longtack55 at 10.43 he says British pound notes.
They had at least 5, 10, and 50 pound notes not just 5
There is a Movie called "The counterfeiters" that you must see, based on Operation Bernhard.
I seem to remember that it was an Austrian production and the movie was in German
Or Operation Andreas, apparantly there were several names or several operations. In the Wiki article about Alfred Naujocks it's called Operation Andreas.
Humanity was never designed to abuse others we are all in part of familiar with pain even if we do not feel it personally.
At 6 minutes in, that former prisoner hasn't aged at all! He must've been at least 18 to 20 years old, in that prisoner picture. Meaning this documentary would've been filmed in the 1990s? Amazing
very interesting
fascinating documentary, thank you
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As a young lad, I remember watching a BBC programme called "Private Schulz" in 1980. Being a young lad, I was fascinated by the story, but only as I got older and read more and more, came to realise that the program was not so much a work of fiction, but actually very close to the facts and details of the actual events, but very well written and portrayed.
WELL worth watching if you get a chance to.
A rare authentic narrative. Tells much about all parties. Amazing story and creditable.
Where can I find the music from the last minute ?
Was thinking World Bank today.
It's a very sad thing to see this documentary and then read some of the comments here. Persecution of anyone is disgusting and brainless....
To know who rules over you, see who you are not allowed to criticize.
@@cattleherder1912 Its rather ironic that your name is Cattle Herder when you are such a sheep
@@cattleherder1912 Well well... Hatin' on the Jews. You should know that that won't end well for ya, pardner. Bless your little heart.
@@MrUhwoody You should know that it wont end well for you if you love rothschild. They see you as cattle.
@April M Hahahhaha! Enlighten yourself before its too late cattle.
Growing up I heard many stories about the war my grandfather on my father's side was an Italian Soldier and my grandfather on my mother's side was a Greek resistance fighter both of them had stories about different tragedies you could always see the sorrow in their eyes when they told them nothing good ever comes from war you would think we would learn from the past yet here we are still doing the same thing there must be a better way
@April M i agree with you everything except war part sorry but there has tobe a better way people dieing is not the answer
@April M agreed some thing has to be done
Incredible Story .Terrible sadness and drama.
Odd the icon is the Purple Triangle badge?
I was so fascinated with the Bernhardt Operation story that I purchased a genuine British Pound and the forged version from 2 separate dealers, one from the U.S. (William Rosenblaum) and the other dealer from London.
The British Crown probably got wind of the German forgery plot and did not find that they were amused. After all, they were related.
When you need to print money out of thin air find yourself well skilled labor in that field.
@BLUE DOG because few people have been persecuted more than innocent Jews.
@@foxfur8327 dont be a fool. I like and respect the jews but they have been kicked out of almost every country they tried to settle in. Not for nothing but because they always try to corrupt the people and were very devious.
@@JM-yx1lm It's like this; If I told you I'd been kicked out of a bar and it was the barman's fault you may believe me but if I told you I'd been thrown out of 109 different bars then it would be clear who the trouble maker was.
@@silverbullet2008bb Unless there had been a massive 1000 year long propaganda campaign against your tribe that convinced all the barmen that you are no good and they all threw you out just because of that.
@@trijezdci4588 In fairness propaganda only goes so far... Also the concept of being thrown out implies that you were invited into the bar in the first place, which on your analogy wouldn't have happened if they were all on notice that you were a persona non grata.
Skilled recruits
Great documentary on here called - Everything is a Rich Mans Trick.
Its correct title is "From JFK to 9-11 -- Everything Is A Rich Man's Trick" by Francis Richard Conolley.
I am reading Murray Teigh Bloom's book the Man Who Stole Portugal. A very good read.
There us a movie, made in 1952, named "Five Fingers" It is based on a true story and the forged notes were part of the story
You're thinking of that movie part when they go to the Dungeon and that masked Dungeon elevator operator singing of each floor and what goes on each floor. 3rd floor sounded like if there's a gas chamber and a crematory.
The Agent known as Cicero was paid in forged British pounds, more than likely notes from this secret operation.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elyesa_Bazna
There was a film made of this to in Germany I think to with English subtitles in it to
A dramatization is the film The Counterfeiters. Academy Award Best Foreign Language Film 2007.
And some people today in this country think they have it bad, don't forget the past .
When you have to compare your circumstances to the Holocaust in order to say you do not have things bad, you have it bad.
@@LarryNathanielPhoto This statement is utter nonsense
dude, we cannot justify the injustice of today by comparing it to the holocaust
People should really stop using the holocaust as a barometer for suffering
A seriously lucky series of events spared these great men. Despite knowing, not one of the 6,000,000 murdered would want survivors to suffer, the survivors guilt must weigh heavily, on them from time to time. The same is true for anyone who survives any tragic event, or a series of horrific events where others perished.
Reports by the red cross in 1968 proved that 250,000 jews were killed it seems to have been overlooked
@75 01
You wake up they should have nuked the Nazis!
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Yeah and the earth is flat the sky is falling and Donald Trump a really honest guy!
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To be precise ELEVEN MILLIONS PEOPLE were killed in concentration camps but, 5 millions were not. ...
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An amazing story of the human spirit, and the will to simply persevere through one of the most grotesque periods of human history.
The irony is they are now worth hundreds of pounds on the collector market