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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gam3rBlake, post: 5245007, member: 115909&quot;]I don’t know how many people know this but I just wanted to share a story I found very interesting.</p><p><br /></p><p>Back in the early 1940s during WW2 Nazi Germany actually used concentration camp inmates with skills in counterfeiting to forge counterfeit £5 notes.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Germans knew the £5 note was the most common British note in circulation and they planned on air dropping a bunch of them in England in an attempt to utterly ruin the British economy.</p><p><br /></p><p>Operation Bernhard was the name of the operation.</p><p><br /></p><p>The biggest challenges the concentration camp inmates faced in creating the fake notes were:</p><p><br /></p><p>1). Duplicating the rag paper used to make the note.</p><p><br /></p><p>2). Deducing the alpha-numeric serial code on each note so that the serial numbers on the fake notes matched up with the serial numbers of real genuine notes.</p><p><br /></p><p>We all know that the operation never succeeded and Germany was defeated so what did they do with the fakes they had?</p><p><br /></p><p>They dumped them in a lake!</p><p><br /></p><p>The one good thing that came out of the counterfeit operation? The concentration camp inmates working the operation were treated relatively well, fed decently, and most importantly were not randomly tortured &amp;/or killed like concentration camp inmates at other camps.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway this is what the fake notes looked like and I just wanted to share with you guys because I thought it was interesting.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1218290[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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