2 real historical locations · Austria, Germany
Stefan Ruzowitzky's Oscar-winning Austrian film based on Operation Bernhard — the Nazi scheme to counterfeit British and American currency using Jewish prisoners at Sachsenhausen. The moral dilemma: participate and survive, or sabotage the operation and likely die.
CinemaMapped has mapped 2 real historical locations where the story takes place, spanning Austria, Germany.
Block 19 of Sachsenhausen — where 142 Jewish prisoners run Operation Bernhard, the largest counterfeiting operation in history.
Operation Bernhard produced £132 million in forged British pounds — so convincing the Bank of England could not reliably detect them. The goal was to flood Britain with counterfeit currency and destabilise the economy...
View location →The Operation Bernhard team is transferred through Mauthausen to Ebensee as Allied forces close in — and prisoners sabotage the counterfeit currency.
The prisoners deliberately delayed and sabotaged dollar production by hiding plates and losing time. Survivor Adolf Burger later estimated that the sabotage prevented millions in fake US dollars from circulating. Mill...
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