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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Trade Review"Counterfeiter ... is an addition for both general-interest lending libraries strong in Holocaust studies and for World War II or Judaic history holdings. It tells of the Nazi secret project, Operation Bernhard, which used prisoners to produce counterfeit British bank nots--considered some of the most perfect counterfeits ever produced--which were to be dropped over London to destabilize the British economy. Author Moritz Nachstern was one of those picked for the program: his story survival and the project offers unusual gripping insights." -The Bookwatch"As far as Malkin is concerned, it's the 'most reliable and psychologically acute' of the half-dozen memoirs written by participants of the counterfeiting operation. 'To me, it's barely a Holocaust story,'said Malkin of the counterfeiting saga. "It's a story of survival and deception in wartime."-Jon Kalish, The Forward"Arresting from start to finish, this harrowing memoir is full of compassion, pain and strength that illuminates from the inside a little-known episode in the Nazi effort." --Publisher's Weekly, Starred Review
Table of ContentsForeword by Sidsel Nachstern: It Cannot Be Erased: Introduction by Bjarte Bruland: The Norwegian Will Die Tonight Introduction by Lawrence Malkin, Author of Kreuger's Men: The Secret Counterfeit Plot and the Prisoners of Block 19 Counterfeiter Two Interviews with Moritz Nachastern Glossary
