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11/07/2010

BBC Four - The Counterfeiters

A counterfeiter is forced to forge foreign money in a Nazi concentration camp.

Drama based on a true story. A talented counterfeiter is arrested by the Nazis and imprisoned in a concentration camp where he is placed in a group of forgers making foreign money.

Oscar-winning film based on the true story of Salomon Sorowitsch, an artist and expert forger who was arrested by the Nazis and sent to a concentration camp. Along with other forgers, printers and banking experts, he was forced to help the Nazis in an organised counterfeit operation set up to help finance their war effort. It remains the largest counterfeiting operation of all time.

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