Only a fortnight after the start of WWII, at a meeting that has remained a secret for more than half a century, Nazi leaders and officials of the German Reichsbank approved an audacious plot to counterfeit millions of British pounds. Drawing upon top-secret bank records, German and British correspondence, and interrogation transcripts, award-winning journalist and author Lawrence Malkin reveals how an unremarkable SS officer named Bernhard Krueger attempted to bring down the world financial system.
But when Krueger discovered that forging pounds, and later dollars, was no easy task, he made a crucial decision: he would seek out the greatest counterfeiters of pre-war Europe and enlist them in the effort. He found them in an unexpected place: a Nazi concentration camp.
- 'Larry Malkin has written so thrilling, so fascinating, so precise a sstory of the Nazi counterfeiting of British pound notes that he might just find himself thrown into jail' - David Kahn, author of The Codebreakers
- 'The compelling story of the Third Reich's attempt to wreck the British economy…thorough research and authoritative voice enable this fascinating chapter of history to hold interest. Gripping proof that indeed all is fair in love and war' - Kirkus Reviews
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Published 14/08/2008
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