{"product_id":"the-devils-workshop-a-memoir-of-the-nazi-counterfeiting-operation-9781399019156","title":"The Devil's Workshop: A Memoir of the Nazi Counterfeiting Operation","description":"One of the most remarkable episodes of the Second World War was the German attempt to forge currency and trigger the economic collapse of the Allies. The counterfeit operation was one of the largest the world has ever seen and lead to the post-war reissue of sterling.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt the Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Berlin, Jewish prisoners of 13 different nationalities were forced to work on producing counterfeit pound and dollar notes worth billions. The plan was known as Operation Bernhard.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe forgeries that were produced were virtually undetectable. Only the most senior forgers were able to spot the fakes - even staff at the Bank of England failed to do so.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this extraordinary memoir, the sole surviving Czech counterfeiter, Adolf Burger, describes his wartime experiences. He recounts the harrowing facts surrounding the murder of his wife Gizela in Auschwitz, as well as his own time as a prisoner in four concentration camps. He was working as a counterfeiter until his liberation from a concentration camp at Ebensee on 5 May 1945.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSupported by hitherto unseen documentation and photographs that Burger took of his fellow prisoners after the war, this is a shocking account which sheds fresh light on the calculated barbarity of the Nazi war machine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Frontline Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/15\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781399019156\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296","brand":"Adolf Burger","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42561896054965,"sku":"9781399019156","price":22.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_75e7adb2-cd4c-4bea-b216-a739741c1b1e.jpg?v=1670942582","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-devils-workshop-a-memoir-of-the-nazi-counterfeiting-operation-9781399019156","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}