Krueger's Men: The Secret Nazi Counterfeit Plot and the Prisoners of Block 19

Malkin, Lawrence

ISBN 10: 0316057002 / ISBN 13: 9780316057004

Editore: Little, Brown and Company, 2006

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Riassunto:

Offers the little-known story of a World War II counterfeiting plot by the Nazis in which SS officer Bernhard Krueger attempted to undermine the world financial system, a conspiracy in which he enlisted the skills of a group of concentration-camp Jews, in an account based on top-secret bank records, German and British correspondence, and interrogation transcripts.

Product Description: Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 287 pages; Description: xi, 287 p., 8 p. of plates : ill., map ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-261) and index. Subjects: Operation Bernhard, Germany (1940-1945) --World War, 1939-1945 --Counterfeit money --Great Britain --Conscript labor --Poland --Oswiecim. Summary: This true story details the greatest counterfeiting scheme in history and the men the Nazis called upon to help it succeed, a group of concentration-camp Jews.

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Titolo: Krueger's Men: The Secret Nazi Counterfeit ...
Casa editrice: Little, Brown and Company
Data di pubblicazione: 2006
Legatura: hardcover
Condizione: Very Good