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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 621905, member: 66&quot;]Recently read books</p><p><br /></p><p>Good Money by George Selgin</p><p>The Devils Workshop by Adolf Burger</p><p>Counterfeiter: How a Norwegian Jew Survived the Holocaust by&nbsp; Moritz Nachtstern</p><p>Krugers Men by&nbsp; Lawrence Malkin</p><p>Operation Bernhard by&nbsp; Anthony Pirie</p><p><br /></p><p>Good Money deals with the British economy and the factors that lead to the rise of the private coiners, counterfeiters, and the privates token coinage from the 1775 to 1820 period</p><p><br /></p><p>The other four books deal with Operation Bernhard, the Nazi plan of counterfeiting British pounds during the second world war with the aim of undermining the British economy.</p><p><br /></p><p>Krugers Men mostly deals with the plan behind the operation, the people involved, how it was carried out and how it wound down.</p><p><br /></p><p>Operation Bernhard deals more with the counterfeits themselves, how they were used, what they were used for and by whom.</p><p><br /></p><p>The other two are first hand accounts from inside the operation by two of the Jewish prisoners who were actually involved with the counterfeiting in block 19 in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.&nbsp; Adolf Burger is the last surviving member of the Operation Bernhard counterfeiters and was a consultant on the 2007 Academy Award winning film The Counterfeiters that was based on Operation Bernhard.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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