Krueger's Men: The Secret Nazi Counterfeit Plot and the Prisoners of Block 19
✍ Scribed by Malkin, Lawrence
- Book ID
- 108329867
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 257 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780316029162
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
The true story that inspired the Oscar-winning movie The Counterfeiters.
"An astonishing and exciting tale. The drama of how the Nazis mounted a complex counterfeiting operation inside a concentration camp is matched by the chilling life-or-death saga of the prisoners involved. It reads like a thriller, but it's all true." -Walter Isaacson, author of The Wise Men and Benjamin Franklin
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, 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,...