: Nazi Germany aimed to flood the United Kingdom with counterfeit currency to trigger hyperinflation and collapse the British financial system.
: Set during WWII, the film follows Salomon "Sally" Sorowitsch, a master Jewish forger imprisoned at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. He is coerced by the Nazis to lead a team of prisoners in forging British pounds and American dollars to destabilize the Allied economies. The Counterfeiters
: The screenplay was based on The Devil’s Workshop , a memoir by survivor Adolf Burger . 2. Historical Context: Operation Bernhard : Nazi Germany aimed to flood the United
Taming the Counterfeiting Epidemic - MIT Sloan Management Review the film follows Salomon "Sally" Sorowitsch
: It won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film .