A KGVI 1937 definitive German wartime forgery
id you enjoy the 1981 TV mini-series ; or its later 2007 cinema screen adaptation ? Both based their plots around the experiences of a group of Jewish prisoners who escaped the gas chambers thanks to their talents as artists, engravers, printers and bankers put to work by the Nazis at Sachsenhausen concentration camp not far from Berlin. Their task: to produce counterfeit British banknotes so perfect they would fool Swiss bankers, even staff at the Bank of England. Amazingly the prisoners succeeded to the tune of between £100 million and £300 million; forged currency the Nazis used to pay their master-spy Cicero, and
