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  Nazi Gold: Operation Andrew, Sweden and Nazi Gold"
Operation Andrew was the brainchild of Alfred Nanjocks, a fanatical Nazi.
In Berlin, the operation was known formally as Aktion 1.
Operation Bernhard is limited to this scheme of private enrichment.
www.spiritone.com /~gdy52150/goldp5.html   (3363 words)

  
 Operation Bernhard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Operation Bernhard was the name of a secret German plan devised during the Second World War to destabilise the British economy by flooding the country with forged Bank of England £5, £10, £20, and £50 notes.
A fictitious version of the Operation Bernhard story was the topic of a comedy drama serial called Private Schulz (starring Michael Elphick and Ian Richardson) produced by the BBC in 1980.
The real plan was directed by, and named after, SS Major Bernhard Krüger, who set up a team of 142 counterfeiters from among inmates at Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Operation_Bernhard   (564 words)

  
 Robert A. Bernhard
Bernhard left Lehman Brothers in 1972 to become a partner and a member of the Executive Committee of Abraham & Co. In March of 1974 he was asked to become a partner of Salomon Brothers in the corporate finance department.
Bernhard created Bernhard Associates with a view to establishing a small, investment bank active investment management, corporate finance and venture capital.
Bernhard is currently a director of Stone Energy Corporation, SCP Communications, Inc., and Center Capital Corporation.
www.stoneenergy.com /board/R_Bernhard.htm   (307 words)

  
 Operation Bernhard - German counterfeit of British Pounds money during World War 2 - German historical Banknotes
Operation Bernhard was the name of a secret German plan devised during the Second World War to destabilise the British economy by flooding the country with forged pound sterling banknotes
Operation Bernhard was the name of a secret German plan devised during the Second World War to destabilise the British economy by flooding the country with forged Bank of England banknotes.
As part of the Operation Bernhard only values up to £50 were forged.
www.germannotes.com /faq_operation_bernhard.shtml   (592 words)

  
 Counterfeiting Buys Time From War   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Every day that they worked on Operation Bernhard was one day more the prisoners stayed alive and Krueger avoided being sent to the front lines.
Operation Bernhard ultimately produced almost 9 million notes with a face value of 132 million pounds.
Operation Bernhard, of course, did not succeed in wrecking the British economy; indeed, most of the fake currency did not end up in Britain - it was used to pay spies, buy raw materials and gold, and finance Nazis' postwar escape and disappearance.
www.tbo.com /entertainment/books/MGB88NC2ZSE.html   (496 words)

  
 (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
It is estimated that the equivalent of $4.5 billion was forged in operation Bernhard.
The operation was so successful that at the end of the war the Bank of England recalled and redesigned all it's currency.
When operation Bernhard was moved out of Berlin, the S.S. apparently chose to hide the evidence at the bottom of Lake Toplitz.
www.unmuseum.org.cob-web.org:8888 /nazigold.htm   (1351 words)

  
 Action TV - Private Schulz episode guide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
If "Operation Bernhard" had succeeded - and some say the notes were perfect enough to deceive even Bank of England experts - then the phoney currency would have been injected into the British economy "like a dose of flu".
Now "Operation Bernhard" is one of those wild but true tales one delights to hear, then files away forever in the mind as a half-forgotten curiosity.
SS officer Bernhard Naujocks, on whom the Neuheim character is based, actually wore a fl eye-patch and his face was heavily scarred, but it is one of those theatrical truths that real life is sometimes too wild to be credible in drama.
www.action-tv.org.uk /guides/privateschulz.htm   (1763 words)

  
 Operation Bernhard Counterfeit Bank Notes (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
During WWII "almost perfect" forgeries of Bank of England Pound notes were produced by prisoners in a German concentration camp.
There are a number of very small but discernible differences between the Operation Bernhard counterfeits and genuine notes.
A counterfeit has a dull look in Britainnia eyes, her lower lip not as full, less clarity on the cross at top of her crown, fleur-de-lis on the crown not as well defined, and the marking on the vase and the shadow around it not as dark.
www.tomchao.com.cob-web.org:8888 /eu/gb4.html   (133 words)

  
 Propaganda & Espionage Philately
In the case of the espionage forgery, one government has produced a stamp that is a perfect imitation of the enemy stamp to be used to mail propaganda or instructions to people in the enemy or occupied country.
SS officer Bernhard Krueger was in charge and from his name arose the unofficial name of the currency forgery operation: Operation Bernhard.
Operation Cornflakes here, but since I have already written about it elsewhere on the Internet it is more efficient just to link to that article at http://www.psywarrior.com/Cornflakes2.html.
www.psywar.org /stamps.php   (14837 words)

  
 C:\Webpages\Truth\Omega File\omega.htm
That mysterious operation which is said to have ended in a catastrophical failure.
Some of these operations, especially the later ones, had to be carried out under extreme conditions and with the permanent threat of contact with the enemy.
At the end of W.W.II, GEN. GEHLEN ran two operations in Spring, 1945 for them: the assassination of FDR using a chemical that caused the cerebral hemorrhage and immediate death and the [attempted] elimination of Hitler with a bullet from Bormann's gun [without Hitler's 'consent'].
www.spacepub.com /users/data/omega/ome.htm   (18893 words)

  
 Operation Bernhard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
According to a report sent from the British Embassy in Athens in the authum of 1939, a copy of which is still on file in the Bank of England's archives, the plan was approved by Nazi espionage and financial officials at the Reich Finance Ministry on September 18, 1939.
The first Nazi counterfeit attempt in 1940 was called Operation Andreas, directed at the SS forgery factory at Delbrueckstrass 6A in Berlin by a cryptographgrapher named Albert Langer, who claimed his work was ruined by politicized SS meddling.
In the 1950s he went before a German denazification Court, where statements were produced from the forger-inmates that he had been responsible for saving their lives (although records of this court are lost).
en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Operation_Bernhardt   (1799 words)

  
 Sachsenhausen Museum has exhibit about the counterfeit money printed there
The printing of counterfeit money at Sachsenhausen was code-named Operation Bernhard, in honor of the man who directed the operation, SS Major Bernhard Kruger.
This was a Nazi scheme, begun in 1942, to wreak havoc by bombarding the British economy with millions of counterfeit Bank of England pound notes in denominations of 5, 10, 20 and 50.
When Sachsenhausen was evacuated in April 1945, the Operation Bernhard team was transferred to Ebensee, a sub-camp of the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria where they were liberated by the American Army on May 5, 1945.
www.scrapbookpages.com /Sachsenhausen/counterfeit.html   (768 words)

  
 Zero Mass Energy; Fire from the Sky page 3 of 3   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
On March 4, 1946, the operation was changed to Operation Paperclip, with no limits on the time or to the number of Germans.
That year, Operation Majestic-12 was supposedly established by Truman to control the UFO situation, the National Security Act was passed, Project SIGN was established at Wright-Patterson and the CIA was established.
Operation Highjump is not mentioned, but Berkner was part of Operation Deepfreeze at the Antarctic in 1957-1958, headed by Byrd until his death, as were Werner von Braun and Frederick C. Durant.
share.geocities.com /Area51/9357/firesky3.html   (20883 words)

  
 PSYOP Mistakes
The operation was delayed for a day and all the coordination was shifted to fit the new operation timetable.
As part of that operation a number of leaflets were prepared to introduce the Somalis to their American benefactors.
Psychological Operations is known for winning the hearts and minds of the target audience, but in at least one country, Afghanistan, some of the PSYOP leaflets were winning stomachs.
www.psywarrior.com /PSYOPMistakes.html   (13149 words)

  
 KZ Lager Items
This operation was known also as "Operation Andrew" or "Operation Andreas".
There is an interesting personal account of a visitor to the Sachsenhausen museum regarding this incredible forgery team of 149 inmates at this camp producing these notes here.
This particular camp had a VERY high death rate, with a population exceeding 200,000 in the 9 years of its operation.
www.snyderstreasures.com /pages/kz.htm   (2453 words)

  
 Bernhard Krüger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bernhard Krüger (IPA: ['bεrnhart 'kry:gər]) (born 26 November 1904; died 1989) was during World War II as an SS Sturmbannführer, the leader of the VI F 4a Unit in the Reichssicherheitshauptamt.
This SD unit was responsible for, among other things, falsifying passports and documents.
Within the setting of Operation Bernhard, the SD forged pound notes and dollar bills in great numbers.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bernhard_Kr%C3%BCger   (115 words)

  
 Aktion Bernhard - Wikipedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Aktion Bernhard (auch Operation Bernhard) wurde eine Geldfälschungsaktion des Sicherheitsdienstes (SD) im Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA) im Dritten Reich genannt.
Walter Schellenberg, der Chef des SD, nannte die Aktion nach ihrem Leiter, dem Sturmbannführer Bernhard Krüger.
Drittens erbrachte die Operation dem NS-Regime erhebliche Einnahmen aus Seigniorage (Geldschöpfung), da sie die gefälschten Banknoten auf dem internationalen Finanzmarkt verkaufen konnte.
de.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Operation_Bernhard   (472 words)

  
 Together » Searches: Edelsburg
He was then sent to several camps, in ‘43 including Sachsenhausen as a member of a special group of counterfeiters working for an SS group hoping to destabilize the British economy by flooding it with forged Pound Sterling notes (”Operation Bernhard”).
I am particularly interested to know if there is any documentary evidence of his involvement in “Operation Bernhard”, his life in the Lodz Ghetto or his possible service in the Polish army.
I have been advised that turning to the Polish Archives relating to his native town of Minsk Mazowiecki is both cumbersome and unlikely to yield any results about his life prior to the War.
www.americangathering.com /?p=392   (463 words)

  
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It claims the reason Richard Helms was not prosecuted by Jimmy Carter was that although Helms had committed perjury in the ITT case, his trial would have revealed the CIA connections to the large banks of the world.
Operation Bernhard, the project to counterfeit millions of America, British, and German currency just prior to the end of WWI could very well be the main supplier of the founding of the Bilderbergers in 1954.
The importance of bringing the German space scientists to this country (written up very carefully in the book Operation Paperclip), is that the satellites tell you where the oil is or the minerals, water, oil, vegetation and population are.
www.newsmakingnews.com /mbtrans8,4,78mormon.htm   (3705 words)

  
 Operation WWII quiz -- free game
"During WWII an operation was a military or naval action, campaign or mission.
Operation Z. German attempt to infiltrate agents into Russia
Code name of British cover operations to protect Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery
www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=60555   (155 words)

  
 LinkedIn: Bernhard van der Merwe
For both operations and investment, exercise strong emphasis on saving cost.
Determine the capital and operational expenses of the network and management of Technical budgets.
Preparation and execution of open and competitive processes for the selection of suppliers and the acquisition of network expansions and development.
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 [Confidentiel.net] Opération Bernhard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Ce fut le cas de l’Opération Bernhard qui était susceptible de céer un vent de panique dans le monde de la finance.
La véritable et célèbre opération Bernhard ne fut que la suite, mieux structurée, d’une première tentative des allemands à contrefaire de la monnaie britannique.
Le concept de l’Opération Bernhard lui vint alors qu’il discutait avec un ami chimiste du nom de "Max".
www.confidentiel.net /article.php3?id_article=315   (1483 words)

  
 COUNTERFEITS AND PROPAGANDA OF WAR
The near perfect doubles of Bernhard caused England to remove the notes from circulation and replace with a different series notes.
Its chief was SS Sturmbannfuhrer (Major) Bernhard Kruger, for whom the Operation Bernhard was named.
In 1991 as part of an alleged covert CIA operation, five additional 25-dinar leaflets were prepared of thin Bible paper as a tool in quantity against the Iraqi establishment.
currency_den.tripod.com /War_Counterfeits/war.html   (6682 words)

  
 Forgery, Fraud & Forensics profile: Currency & Accounts
During the 1939-45 War Germany's 'Operation Bernhard' involved production of bogus Allied notes by slave labour in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, equivalent to US$7 billion in today's currency.
It is described in Anthony Pirie's Operation Bernhard (New York: William Morrow 1962).
It has been alleged that the US subsequently sought to destabilise the Castro regime by producing Cuban pesos for distribution as part of the Bay of Pigs invasion and printed North Vietnamese dong.
www.caslon.com.au /forgeryprofile2.htm   (2346 words)

  
 FTR#405—Fifth Column—(Two 30-minute segments) (Sources are noted in parentheses
After highlighting the links between the Al Qaeda/Wahhabi milieu targeted by the Operation Green Quest raids of 3/20/2002 and the organization that vets Muslim Chaplains for the US military, the broadcast highlights the geopolitical and economic struggle between the dollar and the euro—a central factor underlying the Iraq war.
At the center of the discussion is the fiscal suicide being proposed by the Bush administration and its economic point man Grover Norquist.
After presenting the author’s substantive, detailed outline of the Operation Green Quest raids and the Al Taqwa milieu and the links with the GSISS nexus, the program highlights the recent lethal assault by an American Muslim soldier on people in his command structure.
www.spitfirelist.com /f405.html   (4136 words)

  
 german films - Film Archive
Millions of counterfeit Bank of England pound notes were produced on a printing press in the camp by 142 inmates – including the Slovakian Jew Adolf Burger – with the aim of wreaking havoc on the British economy.
According to Burger, the forgers also successfully copied the US $100 bill and were to start printing the first million dollars in February 1945, but an order from the Reich Security main office ordered the work to stop and the machinery to be dismantled.
When Sachsenhausen was evacuated in April 1945, the Operation Bernhard team was transferred to Ebensee in Austria where they were liberated by the US Army on 5 May 1945.
www.german-cinema.de /app/filmarchive/film_view.php?film_id=1497   (757 words)

  
 Counterfeit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The League of Nationss investigation found Hungarys motives were to avenge its post-WWI territorial losses (blamed on Georges Clemenceau) and to use profits from the counterfeiting business to boost a militarist, border-revisionist ideology.
The quality of fake bills was still substandard however, due to France's use of exotic raw paper material imported from its colonies.
During World War II, the Nazis attempted to do a similar thing to the Allies with Operation Bernhard.
counterfeit.iqnaut.net   (953 words)

  
 Psyop Reference Books
Although the book is the history of Special Forces military operations in Afghanistan, several leaflets are depicted and there are a small number of short passages that describe psychological operations.
The first volume is a general look at wartime OSS operations, with emphasis on activities in the United States.
In all cases, the currency was taken to the north by Vietnamese agents under the supervision of the CIA.
www.psywarrior.com /books.html   (7896 words)

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