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Title: Counterfeiter: How a Norwegian Jew survived the Holocaust (General Military)
ISBN: 184603289X
Author:
Moritz Nachtstern
Publicate Date: 2008-08-19
Publish: 2008-08-19
List Price: $24.95
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Format: Hardcover
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1: A moving report of life in Nazi Concentration Camps
Counterfeiter is a moving report of survival in Nazi concentration camps written in simple terms by a man haunted by the horrors of his past.
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2: For both general-interest lending libraries strong in Holocaust studies and for World War II or Judaic history holdings
COUNTERFEITER: HOW A NORWEGIAN JEW SURVIVED THE HOLOCAUST is an addition for both general-interest lending libraries strong in Holocaust studies and for World War II or Judaic history holdings. It tells of the Nazi secret project, Operation Bernhard, which used prisoners to produce counterfeit British bank notes - considered some of the most perfect counterfeits ever produced - which were to be dropped over London to destabilize the British economy. Author Moritz Nachtstern was one of those picked for the program: his story of survival and the project offers unusual, gripping insights.
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3: The surreal parallel universe in Sachsenhausen
Moritz Nachstern was the only member of his family left in Norway when he was arrested and held in prison camps first in Norway (Berg) and then deported on the D/S Donau to Stettin and then to Auschwitz. One of only a few to survive initial selection, his background in typography gave him an opportunity to live by contributing to the Third Reich's ambitious currency counterfeiting scheme, housed in a separate area of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
His account, among the first ever told by Norwegian survivors, is a candid exposition of both the counterfeiting operation and the conditions within the block. Driven both by the threat of immediate death and professional pride, a mixed assembly of prisoners labored to create a money printing press, all the while keeping their work secret within the concentration camp.
Nachstern tells of episodes that would be comical if they didn't so often result in murder and provides a view into a world of madness within utter barbarism and lawlessness.
Nachtstern was one of only 28 of the 770 or so Jews shipped from Norway who survived the camps. He returned to Norway, married, and started a family, but he struggled for the rest of his life to adjust to the memories. This is an unusual story, not just for the events it portrays, but also because Nachtstern somehow succeeds in portraying all those involved as humans, though often deeply flawed.
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