PREV ARTICLE
NEXT ARTICLE
FULL ISSUE
PREV FULL ISSUE
V11 2008 INDEX
E-SYLUM ARCHIVE
The E-Sylum: Volume 11, Number 16, April 20, 2008, Article 19 MOVIE REVIEW NOTES: THE COUNTERFEITERS Joe Boling writes: "On the movie "The Counterfeiters", Steve Feller, Fred Schwan, Danny Spungen and his wife, and I went to see it one night during CPMX. I found the numismatic content to be fairly sparse and subject to errors. It's really a morality play about the inmates and their jailers." Warner Talso writes: Let me pick a nit with Larry Gaye's review of the movie 'The Counterfeiters'. The review states the purpose of Operation Bernhard was to destabilize the British Pound. This was the original idea, but was quickly dropped. There is no way the Nazis could have produced enough notes to accomplish this purpose. And many in the Nazi government objected to the idea. Rather, the purpose became to create hard currency to support the German war effort. Finished notes were graded and sorted into three Classes (wahl). Class I, and highest quality notes were used to pay spies in neutral nations. Class II, and next highest quality notes, were used to pay SS Units, partisans, and collaborators. Class III notes were saved for a possible future plan to drop over England. Class IV were rejects. "As a sidelight, Cicero (Elyesa Bazna), a famous and valuable Nazi spy in the British embassy in Ankara, Turkey was paid in Operation Bernhard notes. Cicero was a valet to the British ambassador. He photographed top Secret documents and sold them to the Nazis. He was reportedly the highest paid spy of the war. Cicero saved his money and after the war tried to set up a business with the notes. The forgeries were discovered and confiscated. Cicero died destitute." MOVIE REVIEW BY LARRY GAYE: THE COUNTERFEITERS esylum_v11n15a23.html Wayne Homren, Editor The Numismatic Bibliomania Society is a non-profit organization promoting numismatic literature. See our web site at coinbooks.org. To submit items for publication in The E-Sylum, write to the Editor at this address: whomren@coinlibrary.com To subscribe go to: https://my.binhost.com/lists/listinfo/esylum | |
PREV ARTICLE
NEXT ARTICLE
FULL ISSUE
PREV FULL ISSUE
V11 2008 INDEX
E-SYLUM ARCHIVE
Copyright © 1998 - 2024
The Numismatic Bibliomania Society.
All Rights Reserved.
NBS Home Page
Contact the NBS webmaster