The $3B Nazi Forgery Intended To Bring About The Collapse Of British Economy | Operation Bernhard

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  • @TimelineChannel
    @TimelineChannel  4 года назад +16

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    • @chrissyburnett7499
      @chrissyburnett7499 4 года назад

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    • @garytaylor3377
      @garytaylor3377 4 года назад

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    • @butchlake5764
      @butchlake5764 4 года назад +1

      when was this video taken?

    • @worldeconomicforumbarbie9323
      @worldeconomicforumbarbie9323 3 года назад +2

      Dulles Brothers were behind this.

    • @dennispavalonis7764
      @dennispavalonis7764 3 года назад

      @@chrissyburnett7499 I don't know what to do with yo I'm up to the

  • @Investigativebean
    @Investigativebean 3 года назад +51

    This is such a fascinating story, that I never knew I was missing out on. It is absolutely incredible how talented these men were.

    • @ImGoingSupersonic
      @ImGoingSupersonic 2 года назад

      And so were the prisoners.

    • @douglasdaviddillard
      @douglasdaviddillard 2 года назад +2

      "The counterfeiters" is a great film made about this story 😊

    • @glyngriffin8260
      @glyngriffin8260 Год назад

      In the early 1980's the BBC made a comedy series called "Private Schulz" based on this operation.

  • @poomacha3592
    @poomacha3592 3 года назад +8

    That story about him seeing his dad dead made me cry I feel so bad for him I’m sorry that happened

  • @footsoldier857
    @footsoldier857 3 года назад +30

    "Respectable bankers"
    One of the most insulting lines ever.

    • @johndo3930
      @johndo3930 3 года назад +4

      Respectable bankers a contradiction in terms if I ever heard one

  • @pinkbunny6272
    @pinkbunny6272 4 года назад +32

    As a history lover, knowing of all sides and their tales of pain before, during and after the war this got to me. Having heard of this project it was a good episode of learning. In all senses.

  • @appallokelley3207
    @appallokelley3207 5 лет назад +155

    At 3:26 that man saying as a child he was ashamed he didn’t protect his father better. That killed me , it hit me so deep. Have you ever seen your parent so devastated and sad that you wished you could take their pain? I have and as a child it shook metro the core. 😭

    • @appallokelley3207
      @appallokelley3207 5 лет назад +6

      LeTang , you are so right . It’s so terrible to think people suffered this way.

    • @CC42_
      @CC42_ 5 лет назад +14

      that's why as a parent, you need to try to absolutely never let your children see that pain. Not saying everyone has that kinda strength but the reality is your doing your children a great disservice otherwise. It can mess up a child for life.

    • @CC42_
      @CC42_ 5 лет назад +10

      @ImNotMad ButUR my comment wasn't about the people about to be sent to the gass chamber but in general everyday life sadness. Like losing a loved one to illness. Like, don't let yourself become depressed kind of thing. You've got to try your hardest not to let them see you constantly sad.

    • @CC42_
      @CC42_ 5 лет назад +7

      because of how sesitive a child is. With atrocities I think its different. The absolute horror of knowing your about to be murdered is something that is beyond the scope of any kind of everyday event.

    • @kathyyoung1774
      @kathyyoung1774 5 лет назад +8

      Imagine the even worse horror the father felt, unable to,protect his child!

  •  3 года назад +5

    It is so important that this story was documented.

  • @katajha831
    @katajha831 5 лет назад +213

    I love they out lived their captors.

    • @typxxilps
      @typxxilps 4 года назад +5

      Not really, or did you miss that the Bernhard repsonsible for this project survived the war and dived to the "treasure" in Austria in mid 80s

    • @cal-qw8ov
      @cal-qw8ov 4 года назад +7

      Just don't holiday in South America...

    • @benkeller6027
      @benkeller6027 4 года назад +5

      Susan, you would hate to know the actual truth regarding the number of NAZI's that survived the end of WW2. They are everywhere, in every continent, even in Australia of all countries.

    • @SP-qo3pd
      @SP-qo3pd 4 года назад +3

      They ate more rats too.

    • @Retroscoop
      @Retroscoop 4 года назад +3

      A few did yes. But when compared to the millions....

  • @Christian-xl1ih
    @Christian-xl1ih 3 месяца назад +1

    I read a diary from this story . It was the diary of Moritz Nachtstern translated in a book on danish. One of the greatest books I have ever read.
    They transported the jews from Norway in winter time, in the bottom of the ship. Which ment, the people there were forced to sleep on water turned to ice.

  • @krmgradiojoe
    @krmgradiojoe 3 года назад +7

    Thank you for documenting this part of history I knew nothing about.

  • @chanelpeter21
    @chanelpeter21 2 года назад +3

    This deserves to be a movie

  • @Daniele-PierreDuLac
    @Daniele-PierreDuLac 7 лет назад +73

    Quite informative. Thank you. Hope to see more.

  • @TheWalrusWasDanny
    @TheWalrusWasDanny 5 лет назад +36

    Great documentary...thanks for posting it up!!
    Danny

  • @kazkk2321
    @kazkk2321 4 года назад +6

    What a complicated thing history is. It's amazing how little we know of it and how much it comes to control us

  • @mudpuddle8805
    @mudpuddle8805 3 года назад +22

    Amazing the cruelty and pain that one person can inflict on another. God save us from each other.

  • @jessiejames7492
    @jessiejames7492 5 лет назад +234

    that poor man with the memory of his dying , ,bleeding father , beaten like that...hes still suffering thinking of it...

    • @melissasaint3283
      @melissasaint3283 4 года назад +13

      @@aspincelaframboise5300 grow up.

    • @healthnut3165
      @healthnut3165 4 года назад

      aspince laframboise 😂😂

    • @normatible9795
      @normatible9795 4 года назад +11

      jessie james that is true thats why I dont blame the Israelis who hunted down the nazis in Argentina and every corner of the world

    • @DerScheisse
      @DerScheisse 4 года назад +8

      " Mr. Hubert was sent to Buchenwald. ''In the camp there was a cage with a bear and an eagle,'' he said. ''Every day, they would throw a Jew in there. The bear would tear him apart and the eagle would pick at his bones.'' ''But that's unbelievable,'' whispered a visitor. ''It is unbelievable,'' said Mr. Hubert, ''but it happened.'' "
      www.nytimes.com/1988/11/10/world/time-too-painful-to-remember.html

    • @heaven-is-real
      @heaven-is-real 4 года назад +6

      @@healthnut3165 you think that's funny?

  • @jlastre
    @jlastre 5 лет назад +8

    When I was teenager I saw a movie that was based on this around 1978. Thanks for posting this documentary

  • @ajblundell
    @ajblundell 4 года назад +5

    i am amazed how they told them how to make the banks notes better by not being to clinical

  • @DMWBN3
    @DMWBN3 4 года назад +13

    I'd never heard of this story before.
    I'm proud to be English and for what my grandfathers and families went through.
    This channel is 100% worth subscribing to as they have some exceptional & interesting documentaries.

    • @trijezdci4588
      @trijezdci4588 4 года назад +3

      How can anybody be proud to be of any nationality? You didn't do anything to be born into your nationality. Nor did anybody else. It was an accident of history, nothing more.

    • @md.tofailislamrudro512
      @md.tofailislamrudro512 2 года назад +4

      Don't u feel ashamed for what ur predecessors did in India, Africa and other parts of the world?

    • @Star.Chaser
      @Star.Chaser Год назад

      @@OfficialAdiJaythat’s correct so modern white people shouldn’t feel like they need to tread on egg shells for being born white

    • @Star.Chaser
      @Star.Chaser Год назад

      Dave mate, you understand that the vast majority of people in the uk and the surrounding nations are all of Germanic heritage? England was invaded multiple times by the Nordic countries, maybe you missed the Norman invasion in your history class or it’s not taught.

  • @SIMSIMSAMANTHA
    @SIMSIMSAMANTHA 4 года назад +18

    Thank you for sharing this great documentary: their testimonies are deeply moving. Let’s never forget the horrors hatred, prejudice and dehumanizing others leads to. Those incredible and talented men are all gone now. They survived the holocaust and found the strength to build a life for themselves after, but obviously remained traumatized for life. I hope they found everlasting peace now.

  • @poptart6662012
    @poptart6662012 5 лет назад +56

    I cant believe I've never heard of this story! It would make a great movie

    • @armadilloburns4880
      @armadilloburns4880 5 лет назад +5

      Watch the counterfeiters.

    • @hhvictor2462
      @hhvictor2462 5 лет назад

      @Russ Gallagher Private Shultz

    • @getredytagetredy
      @getredytagetredy 4 года назад

      Amadou Birken ...This is about the most truthful comment about this.

    • @melissasaint3283
      @melissasaint3283 4 года назад +1

      You're right, their story deserves a well made movie

    • @husaberg1234
      @husaberg1234 4 года назад +1

      www.imdb.com/title/tt0813547/

  • @shannonwittman950
    @shannonwittman950 4 года назад +9

    This is one of the best Timeline episodes I have ever seen. These good men endured, suffered and made exceptions wherever necessary -- to outlive their cruel masters who treated them as "intelligent cattle." No doubt each of these good men carries full knowledge and comprehension of the extent to which men can do evil. But as I watched this excellent video unfold, I kept thinking -- this earthly life is not the place of judging; except inasmuch as we men are able to render it. Instead, though they may think otherwise, the evil and cruel don't escape their ultimate destiny -- which occurs at the moment immediately following their heart's final beats, their lungs' final breaths.

    • @AB-lq1zd
      @AB-lq1zd 3 года назад

      How terribly verbose.

  • @garryclelland4481
    @garryclelland4481 5 лет назад +10

    thanks for posting , fascinating .

  • @hartyjay187
    @hartyjay187 5 лет назад +18

    They should make a movie about that story, very interesting.

    • @candysweets514
      @candysweets514 5 лет назад +11

      The Counterfeiters is the name of the film that was made of this story.

    • @MrRobertalexander
      @MrRobertalexander 4 года назад

      There are so many movies that should be made----it's absoluteĺy amazing.

    • @laurahoward5426
      @laurahoward5426 3 года назад

      The COUNTERFEITERS, 2007

  • @laurenmyers5731
    @laurenmyers5731 5 лет назад +5

    For anyone who thinks he or she has it rough today just because of how spoiled rotten even people in poverty. .. nothing compares to what people went through. Even myself. Be more thankful for just being able to get up every day and know that you are very fortunate to have what you have. The more people start learning about this history the better off you are. There are plenty of great informative documentaries relative to this.... Thank you for posting.

    • @dianeshelton9592
      @dianeshelton9592 5 лет назад +4

      Well done in making this about you. I don’t see any of these men putting down the suffering of some of those alive today. You don’t know what is happening to everyone today. Just think of others occasionally, it might make you happier.

  • @lv7118
    @lv7118 7 лет назад +27

    Thank you for posting this.

  • @ou8my58
    @ou8my58 5 лет назад +16

    oh my, lord please give to those who endured so much and to endure further on in silent suffering, let them have their peace and let them have their forgiveness. for those men and woman in the camps it had to have been horrifying. With this lesson i have learnt,, at the cost of others suffering, i have learnt, humility and humanity to be grateful for all that i have,because compared to that, i live like a king,, and i am on a fixed income. all my prayers to all those who had suffer such horror.

    • @alibabakano4612
      @alibabakano4612 5 лет назад +2

      Well said . My heart goes to those who suffered . I
      Pray to God almighty to bring peace and justice for the whole World . Ameen .

    • @tonylaskowski7953
      @tonylaskowski7953 5 лет назад +1

      Amen Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior.

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  • @adamwilson7590
    @adamwilson7590 3 года назад +5

    Thank-you for showing the world these mens stories. I teared up in the final 7 mins of the video, the look on their faces when the Americans came at noon is unreeling.

  • @dannybeun948
    @dannybeun948 3 года назад +2

    Perfect documentary like always you are the best 👌🙏

  • @udeychowdhury2529
    @udeychowdhury2529 4 года назад +3

    Great video, thanks, I salute these survivors.

  • @daleslover2771
    @daleslover2771 3 года назад +2

    Excellent video 👍👍👍

  • @truescotsman4103
    @truescotsman4103 5 лет назад +23

    when i say it, i live it. as is life. say freedom. say victory. say peace.

    • @NiSiochainGanSaoirse
      @NiSiochainGanSaoirse 3 года назад

      Trainspotting was over 20 years ago pal...

    • @truescotsman4103
      @truescotsman4103 3 года назад

      @@NiSiochainGanSaoirse I don't know what you mean by that. I just made up this silly comment just for fun I don't remember even why I said it. What do you mean?

    • @AB-lq1zd
      @AB-lq1zd 3 года назад

      @@truescotsman4103 Reading your silly comment hurt his brain as it did mine.

  • @AdmLysis
    @AdmLysis 5 лет назад +4

    Amazing story! Subscribed.

  • @RamonaRayTodosSantosBCS
    @RamonaRayTodosSantosBCS 4 года назад +5

    Great channel- I love history

  • @Lemma01
    @Lemma01 6 лет назад +40

    I loved 'Private Schultz' - did NOT know it was based on a true story... brilliant.

    • @ninkbscott
      @ninkbscott 5 лет назад

      @Forrest Trump Cheers may watch it

    • @ziblot1235
      @ziblot1235 5 лет назад +1

      Schultz was my favorite. This story was also done and called "The Counterfeiter". It didnt have the comic touch thatSchultz had, and which I think was prbably closer to the truth. They were a bubling bunch. Comic opera.

  • @moeverma4991
    @moeverma4991 5 лет назад +22

    2:50 even 80 or 90 yrs later this man gets so emotional talking about it. Those memories still haunt him till this day. Never forget!! This was one of the most heinous crime against humanity! I couldn't even imagine being in a situation like that. May peace be with these survivors.

  • @josephmartin6219
    @josephmartin6219 3 года назад +4

    A lesson to us: No how bad things seem, or the tendency that all is over for you, hang on: your miracle is on the way.
    This is a really touching story.

    • @patrickfeehan6975
      @patrickfeehan6975 Год назад

      where was the miracle for the 6 million who didn't survive the camps?

  • @dannyc.jewell8788
    @dannyc.jewell8788 5 лет назад +21

    Sort of a heart warming story

  • @rugosetexture2716
    @rugosetexture2716 4 года назад +3

    Excellent. Thank you very much!

  • @anthonyowen1556
    @anthonyowen1556 7 лет назад +38

    They were not pound notes (as the narrator keeps saying) but five pound notes (as the film shows).
    The Nazis never distributed them, but they did use them to pay various German spies, including 'Cicero' (Elysesa Bazna) an Albanian who worked at the British embassy in Istanbul, Turkey, who passed on secrets to the Germans throughout the 1940s. (He was the subject of the film '5 Fingers' starring James Mason).
    He was never caught or jailed for spying but when he tried to use his forged five pound notes to buy a hotel in Ankera he was caught and jailed for passing counterfeit money (the bank of England realised immediately they were forgeries).
    He sued the West German government for paying him with counterfeit money and to try and get them to reimburse him with genuine notes, but did not succeed and lost his case.

    • @Longtack55
      @Longtack55 6 лет назад +1

      He does not say they were "One Pound" notes and he also refers to them as "Fivers."

    • @shenghan9385
      @shenghan9385 5 лет назад +7

      Poor dude swindled by the Nazis.

    • @patrooney2283
      @patrooney2283 5 лет назад +2

      Anthony owen : Thanks. that was very interesting!!🙏😚💕💕

    • @catnip9178
      @catnip9178 5 лет назад

      @@Longtack55 at 10.43 he says British pound notes.

    • @jam9297
      @jam9297 5 лет назад +1

      They had at least 5, 10, and 50 pound notes not just 5

  • @myunknownland9272
    @myunknownland9272 3 года назад +1

    Good work. Thank you.

  • @stellayates4227
    @stellayates4227 4 года назад +2

    Absolutely fascinating documentary.

  • @charlottestygall3961
    @charlottestygall3961 3 года назад +5

    Those crooks, simply giving away the money? Of course they would find a way to pocket as much as possible

  • @mrsseasea
    @mrsseasea 5 лет назад +5

    wow what a story of survival....and other ....thank you for posting this

  • @jodiemichellebatten5224
    @jodiemichellebatten5224 6 лет назад +75

    It's a very sad thing to see this documentary and then read some of the comments here. Persecution of anyone is disgusting and brainless....

    • @ClintEastwoodenDoors
      @ClintEastwoodenDoors 5 лет назад +6

      To know who rules over you, see who you are not allowed to criticize.

    • @jgedutis
      @jgedutis 5 лет назад +11

      @@cattleherder1912 Its rather ironic that your name is Cattle Herder when you are such a sheep

    • @MrUhwoody
      @MrUhwoody 5 лет назад +6

      @@cattleherder1912 Well well... Hatin' on the Jews. You should know that that won't end well for ya, pardner. Bless your little heart.

    • @cattleherder1912
      @cattleherder1912 5 лет назад +8

      @@MrUhwoody You should know that it wont end well for you if you love rothschild. They see you as cattle.

    • @cattleherder1912
      @cattleherder1912 5 лет назад +6

      ​@April M Hahahhaha! Enlighten yourself before its too late cattle.

  • @sheikowi
    @sheikowi 5 лет назад +7

    A rare authentic narrative. Tells much about all parties. Amazing story and creditable.

  • @prof2yousmithe444
    @prof2yousmithe444 5 лет назад +7

    Well done!

  • @ShawnaCostonPhD
    @ShawnaCostonPhD 5 лет назад +4

    Humanity was never designed to abuse others we are all in part of familiar with pain even if we do not feel it personally.

  • @JESUSisLORD24151
    @JESUSisLORD24151 5 лет назад +15

    Incredible artists.

    • @charlottestygall3961
      @charlottestygall3961 3 года назад

      They made a show about this
      Called "Private Shultz"
      I remember that was back in
      1982

  • @WonkaVator72
    @WonkaVator72 7 лет назад +39

    In the '80s, the BBC did a great comedy/drama version of this plot called "Private Schulz." Brilliant.

    • @63Baggies
      @63Baggies 7 лет назад +6

      I have the Box-set; starring the excellent Michael Elphick and Ian Richardson RIP. Wonderfully dark, funny and very British.

    • @idh31a74
      @idh31a74 6 лет назад +2

      Got it on DVD, brilliant! I remember watching it on TV back in ye olden days when there were only 3 channels.

    • @haroldfiedler6549
      @haroldfiedler6549 5 лет назад

      That BBC show was moronic. They tried to make fun of the Germans like the whole operation was a dopey failure. The only dopes were the stupid British because this German operation was very successful.

    • @christosvoskresye
      @christosvoskresye 5 лет назад +2

      @@haroldfiedler6549 About as successful as German jet fighters: a clever idea but scarcely a bump in the road to Berlin.

    • @haroldfiedler6549
      @haroldfiedler6549 5 лет назад +1

      @ImNotMad ButUR I could come up with 100 reasons, but I'll give you just one. Long after everyone else rid themselves of their kings and queens and royal families, in Britain the whole sleazy enterprise is still going. I don't know how many millions of dollars are siphoned off to keep these horse-faced fools in the green, but it's a scandal of "royal" proportions.

  • @Robbi496
    @Robbi496 5 лет назад +27

    There us a movie, made in 1952, named "Five Fingers" It is based on a true story and the forged notes were part of the story

    • @ScorpioBornIn69
      @ScorpioBornIn69 5 лет назад

      You're thinking of that movie part when they go to the Dungeon and that masked Dungeon elevator operator singing of each floor and what goes on each floor. 3rd floor sounded like if there's a gas chamber and a crematory.

    • @johnwilson1094
      @johnwilson1094 4 года назад +2

      The Agent known as Cicero was paid in forged British pounds, more than likely notes from this secret operation.

    • @Retroscoop
      @Retroscoop 4 года назад

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elyesa_Bazna

  • @susanhepburn6040
    @susanhepburn6040 2 года назад +1

    Thank you very much.

  • @arunanand2809
    @arunanand2809 3 года назад

    Request timeline to publish a book on these brave people.

  • @LarryNathanielPhoto
    @LarryNathanielPhoto 5 лет назад +12

    When you need to print money out of thin air find yourself well skilled labor in that field.

    • @foxfur8327
      @foxfur8327 5 лет назад +2

      @BLUE DOG because few people have been persecuted more than innocent Jews.

    • @JM-yx1lm
      @JM-yx1lm 4 года назад +2

      @@foxfur8327 dont be a fool. I like and respect the jews but they have been kicked out of almost every country they tried to settle in. Not for nothing but because they always try to corrupt the people and were very devious.

    • @silverbullet2008bb
      @silverbullet2008bb 4 года назад +2

      @@JM-yx1lm It's like this; If I told you I'd been kicked out of a bar and it was the barman's fault you may believe me but if I told you I'd been thrown out of 109 different bars then it would be clear who the trouble maker was.

    • @trijezdci4588
      @trijezdci4588 4 года назад

      @@silverbullet2008bb Unless there had been a massive 1000 year long propaganda campaign against your tribe that convinced all the barmen that you are no good and they all threw you out just because of that.

    • @AB-lq1zd
      @AB-lq1zd 3 года назад

      @@trijezdci4588 In fairness propaganda only goes so far... Also the concept of being thrown out implies that you were invited into the bar in the first place, which on your analogy wouldn't have happened if they were all on notice that you were a persona non grata.

  • @IbnBahtuta
    @IbnBahtuta 6 лет назад +39

    These men were the lucky ones. Walk a day in their boots before you insult them.

  • @darwincharlie2065
    @darwincharlie2065 2 года назад +1

    Live one day more!!!This is Legendary tale!!!

  • @josephdupont
    @josephdupont 5 лет назад +8

    I read about this as a kid and High School junior high and I was totally impressed with the story was totally amazing and here it is documentary on it super thank you

  • @MrTaxiRob
    @MrTaxiRob 4 года назад +10

    now do a doc about the $100 bills distributed in Syria that led to the current security features in American paper currency...

    • @NiSiochainGanSaoirse
      @NiSiochainGanSaoirse 3 года назад

      America doesnt have paper money.
      It's made from cotton.

    • @abelnewman8276
      @abelnewman8276 3 года назад

      @@NiSiochainGanSaoirse en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_paper

  • @J.Cameron.Stuart.Adams.
    @J.Cameron.Stuart.Adams. 6 лет назад +15

    A seriously lucky series of events spared these great men. Despite knowing, not one of the 6,000,000 murdered would want survivors to suffer, the survivors guilt must weigh heavily, on them from time to time. The same is true for anyone who survives any tragic event, or a series of horrific events where others perished.

    • @TheWelwyn21
      @TheWelwyn21 5 лет назад +3

      Reports by the red cross in 1968 proved that 250,000 jews were killed it seems to have been overlooked

    • @hodaka1000
      @hodaka1000 5 лет назад

      @75 01
      You wake up they should have nuked the Nazis!

    • @hodaka1000
      @hodaka1000 5 лет назад +4

      @@TheWelwyn21
      Yeah and the earth is flat the sky is falling and Donald Trump a really honest guy!

    • @scovserbcurmudgeon6818
      @scovserbcurmudgeon6818 5 лет назад

      Dan Francis I am a Nigerian prince. Your gullibility and stupidity have led me to believe I can trust you with my fortune, as I must leave my country to escape the clutches of an army of pygmy sasquatches. Send me your bank account number, and I will deposit 98 gazillion dollars into your account, and collect it when I arrive in your country in my hover-submarine. I will give you 10 percent of the money as a transaction fee. Also, you can have your pick of either a genuine naugahyde recliner, or a toaster once owned by Mohammed (peace be upon him) please reply quickly.

    • @nickdick5937
      @nickdick5937 4 года назад

      To be precise ELEVEN MILLIONS PEOPLE were killed in concentration camps but, 5 millions were not. ...

  • @ausendundeinenacht1
    @ausendundeinenacht1 4 года назад +3

    very NUANCED docu
    Lovely narrator 's voice
    ps
    how LUCKY those WERE

  • @gamewizard1760
    @gamewizard1760 4 года назад +5

    I've handled both original notes and the Operation Bernhard counterfeits, and they were very good and would have only gotten better as time went on. They could have destroyed the British banking system given enough time. Dropping them from aircraft would not have worked, though. It would have attracted too much attention and the government would have been suspicious of the notes right away. Sneaking it in by covert means and having spies across the country spending it into circulation would have worked better. It would have been less noticeable.

    • @SP-qo3pd
      @SP-qo3pd 4 года назад +2

      Still in all it was a sound plan. If you had a bill that's so close to the real deal that the authorities can't distinguish, then that's more valuable than any weapon in the field.

  • @Regina-ws7sp
    @Regina-ws7sp 5 лет назад +4

    Amazing story! Thanks for sharing! The CREATOR bless you all near and far!

  • @noka79
    @noka79 4 года назад +2

    I cant believe so many people did not know about this

    • @seventhson3228
      @seventhson3228 3 года назад

      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Counterfeiters_(2007_film)

  • @fenixfp40
    @fenixfp40 4 года назад +8

    And 75 years later we are now counterfeiting the currency ourselves. 2020

    • @peteswanson1846
      @peteswanson1846 4 года назад

      And there are a few netflix shows about counterfeiting - good girls / money heist / AND. Trumps designated survivor is named David Bernhardt...

    • @nickdick5937
      @nickdick5937 4 года назад

      Yes

  • @onefeather2
    @onefeather2 5 лет назад +22

    And some people today in this country think they have it bad, don't forget the past .

    • @LarryNathanielPhoto
      @LarryNathanielPhoto 5 лет назад +5

      When you have to compare your circumstances to the Holocaust in order to say you do not have things bad, you have it bad.

    • @jgedutis
      @jgedutis 5 лет назад +1

      @@LarryNathanielPhoto This statement is utter nonsense

    • @aboomination897
      @aboomination897 4 года назад +1

      dude, we cannot justify the injustice of today by comparing it to the holocaust

    • @willbe5994
      @willbe5994 2 года назад

      People should really stop using the holocaust as a barometer for suffering

  • @GustineGabusbelang
    @GustineGabusbelang 4 года назад +4

    Frightfully awesome...

  • @williamdunn2792
    @williamdunn2792 4 года назад +6

    There is a Movie called "The counterfeiters" that you must see, based on Operation Bernhard.

    • @alfredenisz4775
      @alfredenisz4775 4 года назад

      I seem to remember that it was an Austrian production and the movie was in German

    • @Retroscoop
      @Retroscoop 4 года назад

      Or Operation Andreas, apparantly there were several names or several operations. In the Wiki article about Alfred Naujocks it's called Operation Andreas.

  • @jalaneperry7643
    @jalaneperry7643 4 года назад +16

    They made a show about this
    Called "Private Shultz"
    I remember that was back in
    1982

    • @jorgealdridge3244
      @jorgealdridge3244 4 года назад

      I loved it loved it so you know how I can see it in america

  • @jonminnella2966
    @jonminnella2966 5 лет назад +3

    Growing up I heard many stories about the war my grandfather on my father's side was an Italian Soldier and my grandfather on my mother's side was a Greek resistance fighter both of them had stories about different tragedies you could always see the sorrow in their eyes when they told them nothing good ever comes from war you would think we would learn from the past yet here we are still doing the same thing there must be a better way

    • @jonminnella2966
      @jonminnella2966 5 лет назад +1

      @April M i agree with you everything except war part sorry but there has tobe a better way people dieing is not the answer

    • @jonminnella2966
      @jonminnella2966 5 лет назад +1

      @April M agreed some thing has to be done

  • @bodyloverz30
    @bodyloverz30 7 лет назад +24

    What an impressive documentary!

    • @paulmerritt8593
      @paulmerritt8593 3 года назад

      Its started all over again. The survivors are already saying the same.

  • @mynamedoesntmatter8652
    @mynamedoesntmatter8652 3 года назад +1

    A lot of those notes still circulated in several countries. It’s been said that until England took those currency notes out of circulation, you could easily have been handed those counterfeit notes and spent them, even deposited them into banks. They were that perfect.

  • @ShamyTV5K
    @ShamyTV5K 2 года назад

    one of the most fascinating stories of WW2

  • @stephanbach1652
    @stephanbach1652 5 лет назад +1

    There is a beautiful portrait of Reginald Pole in Lambeth Palace. Lambeth was open to the public for tours in the summer of 2000. It was part of the String of Pearls opened for just that summer.

  • @davidallen6970
    @davidallen6970 5 лет назад +8

    wrongly accused of undermining the german economy then used to do the same in britain

    • @jimreid6370
      @jimreid6370 4 года назад +1

      Good point but I don't think it would work it would be like someone trying to pay today with 100 pounds ?😅

  • @sputumtube
    @sputumtube 5 лет назад +11

    Subtitles would have been great for those of us with impaired hearing....

    • @dme1973de
      @dme1973de 4 года назад

      Turn on the subtitles on the video then.

  • @MarkH10
    @MarkH10 5 лет назад +11

    Everyone above the rank of Captain knew the war was not winnable in 1942 according to Skorzeny. 1944 was far past the point of thinking the war was lost.

    • @PutinsMommyNeverHuggedHim
      @PutinsMommyNeverHuggedHim 4 года назад

      MarkH10 oh wow. Were they working on an armistice?

    • @AB-lq1zd
      @AB-lq1zd 3 года назад +1

      I believe the line was 'by 1944 the SS knew the war was lost', which in no way contradicts what you are saying. He didn't say that they first realised it was lost in 1944. In reality by 1944 they were not safe operating in the location they had been, this was the point.

  • @lordfnord5768
    @lordfnord5768 3 года назад +1

    The only problem is, the counterfeiters can't keep up with any normal government in putting out new money. There just aren't enough printing presses around.

  • @davidworsley7969
    @davidworsley7969 7 лет назад +9

    I think the Germans made the best use of the forged notes-at that time most British people would never get to see a £5.00 note-it's purchasing power was about £300.00 at today's rates so it would be very difficult to introduce them on such a scale as would damage the economy.

  • @chuenyeelau
    @chuenyeelau 2 года назад

    What a great story and thanks

  • @tammyileene4060
    @tammyileene4060 6 лет назад +7

    please refrain from foul language...God bless you.

  • @KB-zq9ck
    @KB-zq9ck 5 лет назад +5

    Although two totally different scenarios, you hear about the vets who came back from Vietnam with mental health issues and such but you never hear of the issues survivors of the worst tragedy know to man had to live with. How can one live a normal life after the camps? When, I watch the survivors talk about it, it blows my mind how adjusted they have become and resilient they are "For lack of better words" My heart goes out to all that perished and survived.

    • @iwasdroppedatbirth2409
      @iwasdroppedatbirth2409 5 лет назад

      I would say that the communist systematic starvation of over 10 million people is worse

    • @redbutterfly88
      @redbutterfly88 5 лет назад

      Although only few vets who suffered ptsd after vietnam war, the loud story you hear were purposely higlighted to gain sympathy for the lost battle. Most vetd cope very well, some of them becomes succesfull politicians, still work in govt. And enjoying their retirement.

    • @AB-lq1zd
      @AB-lq1zd 3 года назад

      30% of them weren't smack heads...

  • @thelillypad9567
    @thelillypad9567 4 года назад +2

    This would make an incredible movie! Wow

    • @trijezdci4588
      @trijezdci4588 4 года назад +1

      Not "would", but "did": ruclips.net/video/ch49HBf_aM8/видео.html

  • @yorneustein7851
    @yorneustein7851 5 лет назад +7

    23:28
    On the Poster
    The Money Maker banden kapple = The Money Maker Gang Orchester
    XD they did indeed kept there humor

  • @ronnyvillanueva9404
    @ronnyvillanueva9404 10 месяцев назад

    I was so fascinated with the Bernhardt Operation story that I purchased a genuine British Pound and the forged version from 2 separate dealers, one from the U.S. (William Rosenblaum) and the other dealer from London.

  • @johnrogan9420
    @johnrogan9420 4 года назад +10

    The US CIA printed 1 billion dollars of real us currency in Vietnam...actual plates and real paper...legal tenure to finance Air America type schemes.

  • @keithday3658
    @keithday3658 2 года назад +1

    The irony is they are now worth hundreds of pounds on the collector market

  • @williambeck2202
    @williambeck2202 5 лет назад +5

    Vastly interesting, explains a lot of the misinformation about “ operation Bernhard “ and no propaganda to irritate

  • @percymakubaza5997
    @percymakubaza5997 5 лет назад +10

    Kim Jong Un : Say no more!

  • @Bufoferrata
    @Bufoferrata 3 года назад +2

    There was a British black comedy/ drama in 1981 called Private Schulz based on this story. It starred Michael Elphick, Billie Whitelaw and Ian Richardson. Terrific show, some parts are hysterical and Richardson does a Petter Sellers and plays three different characters. Check it out.
    Stay well everyone!

  • @thebonesaw..4634
    @thebonesaw..4634 4 года назад +3

    An amazing story of the human spirit, and the will to simply persevere through one of the most grotesque periods of human history.

  • @factologyprofessor2869
    @factologyprofessor2869 2 года назад +2

    There are no winners or losers of war,just scars on soldiers,trauma for survivors,graveyards for the casualties and a more sad earth. Let’s embrace peace.

  • @theresabraddock9310
    @theresabraddock9310 3 года назад +1

    very interesting

  • @loisdemontmajour974
    @loisdemontmajour974 4 года назад +7

    That fact my father told me that when I was a child, he told me a lot about the WWII history. He was really neutral and objective, what was good, was good what was wrong was wrong from any side and always with proves and explanation.
    When I was 16 years old (1961)...I had to give a lecture at school..so I chose to talk about the money forgery...also the problems the Nazis had to create the right paper..they found out the bank of England used a combination of different rags...after five minutes the teacher stopped me and I was thrown out of the classroom...I was a liar for it was not in his history books..
    That gave me reasons enough to study more about both the world wars...like.... why the first war, why there was a second war, the real reason and not the version of the victors for they write the history..also..why Japan attacked Pearl Harbour and why there were no aircraft carriers.....but till now, people want to believe what they are told...easier...and better for their conscience..

    • @rustyalcorta3643
      @rustyalcorta3643 4 года назад +1

      Where did this happen? I am very interested in this.

    • @loisdemontmajour974
      @loisdemontmajour974 4 года назад +1

      @@rustyalcorta3643 ...I want to explain what I know, only, what do you mean?...the fake money, attack Pearl Harbour, why there was a WW2......

    • @loisdemontmajour974
      @loisdemontmajour974 4 года назад +2

      @Jason Bouphasavanh to teach about WW II is a work of years...but I try to make some time to tell you why WWI started and why WW II started with proves...I don't know what nationality you have but be prepared..it's an ugly history.

    • @loisdemontmajour974
      @loisdemontmajour974 4 года назад

      There should never be a WW II..if there was not a WW I
      End XIX century, the industrial revolution was booming...new technology, new techniques, new machines,
      But that means alo new weapons...and that gives problems in an era where uniforms were in fashion...
      If you're engaged to a girl...and before marriage you only may look at her..is like Santa brings you a bicycle but you only may ring the bell
      With the new weapons it was the same you get them but you only may aim your neighbour's head...just for fun.
      More
      The German KRUPS (steel factory) was asked to put a railroad in the middle East...
      KRUPS, not stupid, saw there was petrol in th region...KRUPS proposed to put the railroad for free, they only wanted the ground for the rail raid and 10 kilometers beside the rails...they got the deal..and became independent from foreign petrol dealers
      That means
      German technology was far better than the French an English and now they had the energy also...energy that normally was in hands of the British.
      But how to stop the Germans?
      The killing of the Austrian crown prince and his wife in Sarajevo (yogoslavia) was a good reason to play with the new weapon toys..
      Austria wanted to punish Sarajevo for the murder and declared the war
      Russia, friends with Sarajevo and not prepared for a war, but it's only for fun,
      Germany, friendly with Austria, wanted to help Austria.
      France, friend with Russia joined the war game.
      England, friends with France wanted to play also...
      Oh what a lovely war...
      Everybody, all over Europe, was excited...at last some adventure and were home again with Christmas.
      Not....it became the dirtiest war ever...

    • @loisdemontmajour974
      @loisdemontmajour974 4 года назад +1

      @Jason Bouphasavanh ...why to blame Germany for WW I ?
      November 11. 1918.. there was an armistice...and the majority voted to blame Germany for the war...something that was very convenient for England and France...That way they got rid of them string economic competitor.
      In 1919 the countries gardener in Versailles to dictate the conditions...
      Germany was to blaime for everything
      Germany has to pay for all the damage
      Germany has to put on the products..."made in Germany"
      Germany even has to pay for the pensions of the British soldiers.etc,etc..
      In other words Germany had to be killed so that the opponents could take the whole market...

  • @tranceking999
    @tranceking999 5 лет назад +13

    And there are people who still say that the genocide in WW2 never happened. We must remember this so it nevera happens again !!!

    • @jq4136
      @jq4136 5 лет назад +2

      Lol

    • @getredytagetredy
      @getredytagetredy 5 лет назад +6

      tranceking999 ...Theres Genocide happening right now by these same people that claim to be victims...only they are the attacker oppressors...in Palestine...Innocent women children and families murdered or tortured and abused everyday .

    • @zampieritto
      @zampieritto 4 года назад

      Genocide happen now in England with the Brexit

    • @JM-yx1lm
      @JM-yx1lm 4 года назад +2

      @@zampieritto extremist leftist talk about it daily on video in the Usa. Anyone who opposes them, they say needs to be killed or thrown into concentration camps

    • @elizabethsohler1847
      @elizabethsohler1847 4 года назад

      You're right except it has already happened again at least twice that I know of, in the former Yugoslavia between the Serbs and the Croats and in Rwanda/Burundi between the Hutus and the Tutsis, Only the scale is different, the hatred is exactly
      the same.

  • @deweylasv
    @deweylasv 4 года назад +1

    At 6 minutes in, that former prisoner hasn't aged at all! He must've been at least 18 to 20 years old, in that prisoner picture. Meaning this documentary would've been filmed in the 1990s? Amazing

  • @kofiabradu9524
    @kofiabradu9524 4 года назад +2

    Skilled recruits

  • @tomg5187
    @tomg5187 4 года назад +1

    RIP. May we never repeat this or allow this to be repeated in this future of the human race.

  • @EricF647
    @EricF647 6 лет назад +5

    fascinating documentary, thank you

  • @clarkewi
    @clarkewi 3 года назад +1

    I used to be a printer. This is fascinating.

  • @tuesdayturner6196
    @tuesdayturner6196 4 года назад +4

    Got to the elderly gentleman who witnessed his fathers murder and turned it off. I'm so intrigued by this unbelievable story and I love learning. But that gentleman's tears just ripped my guts out. We will never understand the terror and pain these people experienced.