20 July 2008 4:57 AM, PDT | From Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news
In an interview with Adolf Burger he refers to his time at the World War II concentration camp Sachsenhausen as if they were "dead men on holiday". This is in reference to the Jewish men brought to the camp by the Germans with the sole intent to counterfeit the English pound note moving on to the American dollar in an attempt to fund the Nazi war effort while damaging enemy economies. It was known as "Operation Bernhard" and it is, to date, the largest known counterfeit operation ever having forged more that 132 million in British Pound Sterling. The quote is powerful, especially after you see what the men went through. The Counterfeiters won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2008 and much of the story is taken from Burger's book, "The Devil's Workshop," adapted for the screen by director Stefan Ruzowitzky with the aid of Burger. The story focuses
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