The Counterfeiters -

: It won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film .

: 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

Taming the Counterfeiting Epidemic - MIT Sloan Management Review : It won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

: The screenplay was based on The Devil’s Workshop , a memoir by survivor Adolf Burger . 2. Historical Context: Operation Bernhard Taming the Counterfeiting Epidemic - MIT Sloan Management

Counterfeiting has evolved from a wartime weapon into a multi-billion dollar global criminal industry.

: Nazi Germany aimed to flood the United Kingdom with counterfeit currency to trigger hyperinflation and collapse the British financial system.

: While millions of forged notes were produced, the plan to drop them over London via aircraft was never fully executed, though many notes did enter international circulation. 3. Modern Counterfeiting and Prevention