Operation Bernhard
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title:
Operation Bernhard
text:
Operation Bernhard was an exercise by Nazi Germany to forge British bank notes. The initial plan was to drop the notes over Britain to bring about a collapse of the British economy during the Second World War. The first phase was run from early 1940 by the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) under the title Unternehmen Andreas. The unit successfully duplicated the rag paper used by the British, produced near-identical engraving blocks and deduced the algorithm used to create the alpha-numeric serial code on
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Exercise by Nazi Germany to forge British bank notes
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Bernhard
date created:
2003-08-28T11:52:49Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T16:45:43Z
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