At the beginning of World War II, the german armored torrent quickly destroyed Poland and France, the European continent fluttered with the iconic Nazi flag, and the earth trembled under the heavy tank tracks... Hundreds of warplanes flew across the English Channel, pounced on Britain, bombing day and night, trying to force the British to surrender. At this time Churchill gave his famous speech: We will fight in the air, we will fight on the sea, we will fight in the fields and streets, we will fight in the hills, and we will never surrender.
Britain was like a bulldog that never bowed its head, constantly roaring and biting, the Royal Air Force and the Luftwaffe fought to the death, Hitler lost a large number of fighters, and he was proud of the war machine into a quagmire. After the loss of the army, the Germans came up with a way to defeat the soldiers without a fight: to make counterfeit money.
The use of counterfeit money in warfare to destroy the enemy is also commonly used: the United States used to make counterfeit money in the north and south during the civil war; Napoleon also signed orders to make counterfeit money from the enemy... It can inflict a fatal blow on the opponent's finances, thereby weakening the enemy's combat effectiveness.
The "Counterfeit Money Project" was orchestrated by 42-year-old Himmler, the second most powerful figure in Nazi Germany. The executor was the young Major Kruger, who was responsible for organizing the production of counterfeit money that threw the British economy into chaos.
Major Kruger soon found the technicians he needed from the concentration camp and built a counterfeit money factory isolated from the glitched grid.
Solovich, a Jew, was proficient in plate making and painting, so he was selected by Major Kruger to carry out the task of making counterfeit money. Jewish craftsmen were threatened that if the banknotes they made were identified, they would be thrown into the gas chamber. The secret group that made the counterfeit money was full of Jews, and they knew that the sooner they made the counterfeit money, the sooner the Germans would win, the less likely the Jewish would be liberated, and that when the Germans did not need counterfeit money, they would face death.
So, the inmates in the mint group risked their lives to delay the implementation of the plan, and when the Germans found out, they killed several members of the mint group.
At the gunpoint of the Nazis, the Jews could not resist the order. In the second half of 1942, the printing press was fully powered to print counterfeit money. About £400,000 a month is shipped around the world with counterfeit money earmarked to finance the secret activities of the Germans.
In the first half of 1943, there was a high level of panic among the banks of London, and illegal things continued to happen in Europe, and large numbers of fake pounds poured into London from Madrid, Lisbon, Zurich, Istanbul and Stockholm, neutral cities where the Germans had established spy networks. Frighteningly, by the time Germany surrendered, one-third of the pound sterling in circulation at that time was counterfeit money made by the Germans. It can be seen how hard the Germans have put in dealing with the British.
At the time, British bank officials knew that there was only one place in the world that could offer such a huge amount of counterfeit money: Nazi Germany. Britain was very worried about this, because such a large number of counterfeit banknotes around the world would inevitably lose credibility with the pound sterling, which had always been strong, and even reach the point of affecting the allied war situation. Such an unfortunate outcome is precisely what Germany envisioned as the desired effect of this plan.
In response, britain issued a statement that shook the financial community: recovering all the currency in circulation and replacing it with a new version of the pound sterling. This grand operation came at an opportune time, and it played a role before the British economic system could collapse due to a Nazi conspiracy, contributing immensely to the final victory of the war.
Solovich, a Jew, survived to the end with his unsupplied counterfeit currency technique, and killed Major Kruger, who was going to take the counterfeit money with him, before the Germans withdrew, hiding the remaining counterfeit money.