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Chapter 1414 11413 The real "Operation Bernard"

"Guess what, sisters." As the memory chains reset with one click continue to flow in, businesswoman Mrs. Elizabeth Talman's expression and behavior become more and more free. How should I put it, it feels like regaining clarity from the hazy state of mind that I just woke up from. Reborn in the blink of an eye: "This 'Bank of England' is like the Nazi's national money-printing machine, running at full speed day and night. I heard that many bankers in Europe became Nazis who were able to pass off counterfeit banknotes as real ones." 'The banknote hand'. Coupled with the systemic corruption of the Nazi Sachsenhausen concentration camp, no one can really know now or in the future how many counterfeit pound notes the 'Bank of England' printed."

In fact, it was not just the memory that was replaced with one click, her exclusive personal branch plot line was also completely reset with one click. For her, this fateful meeting with the "SA3 Sisters" in the director's car is the most important key point in her personal plot.

From the moment when the businesswoman Mrs. Elizabeth Talman's "personal exclusive branch plot line reset by the law of inverse causality is bound to the 0326 exclusive branch plot line and solidified into an important personal plot key node", "Crimson" The high-dimensional rules of "Long Po" inverse causal law were successfully activated. From the "current plot node" to the "original plot node", a "one-click reset" that completely matches the main plot line of 0326's exclusive branch is performed.

Let me say it again, the essence of one-click reset is the law of inverse causality of the personal exclusive branch plot line: "from the result to the cause". The only "result" of this is that all the asylum cards printed out by the all-in-one machine must be a "first-hand character card" that was unsealed, peeled off and activated by 0326 himself. Therefore, from the "result" of the "first-hand character card", the "cause" is traced back, and all "bad entries" that are contrary to it, such as "second-hand", "shabby", "dormant", "invalid" and other "bad entries" will be completely eliminated. Rinse off.

Therefore, the "one-click reset of the law of inverse causality" can also be simply understood as: the "washing of entries" of the "Asylum Card" in the plot time and space.

Just like the maximum harvest in stages mostly occurs in the form of "asylum cards". The biggest way out for all the fragmented characters in the broken plot time and space is to be "sealed into a guardian memory" and brought into the Broken City by players.

In Broken City, from the high-dimensional perspective of "sealed into a guardian memory", at least for now, the characters in the show are essentially not much different from the players in Sanctuary.

Of course, in terms of the composition of the exclusive branch plot line, players and people in the drama do have priorities.

Just like the important characters who appeared in "The Great Battle" "a cross-plot fusion time and space where the World War II-like plot fragments are similar and compatible", the "Bank of England" located in Area 19 of the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp also comes from a broken plot time and space: "Berg" Operation Nader (Die Flscher)".

Danielle, the leader of the "SA3 Sisters" and chief casting assistant, War Girl, unfolded the plot for the sisters in depth: "This is an event that occupies a prominent position in the economic history of Nazi Germany. The original plan was called 'Operation Andrew'" (Operation Andrew)', which was mistakenly called 'Operation Bernhard' because of the surname of the officer in charge, but the real name of the plan in German archives was 'Operation Andrew', and the purpose was to covertly counterfeit large amounts of pounds. Even as the UK was alarmed by the influx of counterfeit currency, the Bank of England had to remain silent on the number of counterfeit pounds found in circulation. Because one of the purposes of Operation Bonnard was to cause panic among British citizens. , devaluing the pound.

The operation was conceived by Alfred Naujocks, a fanatical Nazi. He wanted to bring down the British economy by issuing large amounts of fake pounds. Alfred Naujokes reported his plans to the head of the Central Security Bureau, Reinhard Heydrich. And received strong support from the Chief of Security. One of the important reasons is that overseas espionage operations are costly, and the foreign exchange allocated by the Ministry of Economy to German intelligence agencies is really limited. At the same time, they also included the U.S. dollar as a counterfeit target. Since the United States had not declared war on Germany at the time, Hitler vetoed the proposal to counterfeit the U.S. dollars. Reich Economics Minister Walther Funk did not support the plan. He was worried that the collapse of the pound would cause strong fluctuations in the international currency market and have an impact on the German mark. Heydrich handed over this task to the Fourth Directorate of the Reich Central Security Service and established a new department called 'SHARP4' to oversee the matter. In the summer of 1942, the SS opened a factory to print counterfeit banknotes at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Major Bernhard Kruger led the counterfeiting work. This is also the origin of the name "Operation Bernard". The plan was also known as 'Operation One' in Berlin. The Nazis gathered Germany's best engraving experts, papermaking technology experts and mathematics experts for this purpose. The latter is responsible for deriving the numbering scheme for British pound banknotes. It is said that the money printing workshop in Sachsenhausen was isolated from other areas of the concentration camp. It was led by Max Boder, a professional printer, with 60 prisoners working day and night. These prisoners were all Jews from several other concentration camps and often had experience in counterfeiting money or documents before being arrested. The SS provided them with whatever materials they needed, but no suitable paper. The SS set up two specialized paper mills in the Rhineland and Sudetenland, but the color of the banknote paper they produced under ultraviolet light was different from that of real pounds. Suitable paper was not produced until 1943, when linen specially used for the Bank of England's banknotes was purchased from Turkey. The banknote printing plant in Sachsenhausen consumes 1.2 large sheets of banknote printing paper every month, and each banknote printing paper can print 8 banknotes. But the quality of these counterfeit banknotes was mediocre at best, and it wasn't until the Nazis tracked down Salomon Smolianoff from an Amsterdam prison that anything truly qualified was produced. He was a skilled Russian counterfeiter who began counterfeiting £1927 notes as early as 50. After Salomon Smolyanov corrected the earlier mistakes, full production began at the Sachsenhausen factory. The entire printing process takes about 15 to 20 hours, and each finished product must be strictly inspected. Only the best products are selected and then undergo a distressing process to make them look like old banknotes. The face values ​​of these counterfeit banknotes include 5, 10, 20 and 50 pounds, with 5 pound banknotes accounting for 40%. By mid-1943, Kruger's team had grown to 140 people and was producing 4 banknotes per month. The treatment of these prisoners was much better than that of ordinary prisoners in the concentration camp. Not only did they have enough food, they even received a ration of cigarettes.

Counterfeit coins produced in Sachsenhausen are divided into four grades: perfect, nearly perfect, defective and substandard. It was originally planned to airdrop the defective products to the UK, but in the end this part was destroyed. Perfect counterfeit notes were stored for use by German spies in enemy and neutral countries. Counterfeit currency, both near-perfect and defective, was shipped in batches to the occupied territories to buy gold and food on the black market, and even to purchase British and American air-dropped light weapons from local guerrillas. Some of the counterfeit currency was distributed to German embassies in neutral countries and exchanged for local currency. As the counterfeiting work proceeds, the quality of the counterfeit currency continues to improve. A German agent once specially brought a batch of 4-pound and 5-pound banknotes to Switzerland to exchange them for Swiss francs, and boldly asked to check the authenticity of these pounds (he explained that these pounds were bought on the black market). After being reminded, the bank picked out about 10% of the 'counterfeit coins' and accepted the remaining counterfeit pounds in full. The beautifully printed and high-quality counterfeit pounds even fooled senior bank staff. The British only discovered the existence of counterfeit pounds by chance: a Bank of England employee accidentally discovered that the serial numbers of two banknotes in her hand were the same. It can be seen that counterfeit currency has reached the point where it looks like fake currency. This can only be discovered by checking the serial number.

By the end of the war, the Sachsenhausen factory had counterfeited a total of 8965080 banknotes with a face value of 134610810 pounds, the vast majority of which were 5-pound banknotes. This caused the Bank of England to suffer huge losses and even issued a new 5-pound banknote immediately after the war. , and abolish the circulation of old banknotes. After the Soviet army approached Sachsenhausen, all equipment and personnel were transferred to Lake Ebensee in Austria. This is a subordinate camp of Mauthausen concentration camp. Printing work continued there until May 5. SS troops guarding the printing shop loaded dozens of large boxes of counterfeit money onto trucks, abandoned the prisoners and fled south. The crowded refugees blocked the convoy's path, and the panicked SS sank the counterfeit money in the car to the bottom of Lake Toplitzsee.

In 1963, a German diver embarked on a treasure hunt in Lake Toplitz, but died mysteriously not long after. The Austrian government subsequently banned diving in Lake Toplitz due to the large number of rockets, bombs and artillery shells that had been dumped into the lake during the final days of the war. The boxes were found in 2000. The whereabouts of the rest are still unknown. ”——Adapted from “The Counterfeit Money Maker’s Headquarters in the Concentration Camp”.

"So, the banknote printing plant in Sachsenhausen is currently operating at full capacity to print four grades of counterfeit pound notes." Anna Moffitt, the second casting assistant who is very sensitive to numbers, immediately thought: "This is our 'package' Protocol's capital pool."

Danielle, the leader of the "SA3 Sisterhood" and chief casting assistant, turned her gaze to the assistant casting director with a smile: "What are you waiting for, Katie?"

"Okay, Danielle." Returning to the assistant director's car, Mrs. Katie used the casting office's dedicated line to contact the Gestapo headquarters. In the name of applying for funding for the Far East filming of "Dragon Seed", we secured huge funding for the "SA3 Sisterhood".

"How much did you say?" Not to mention the second casting assistant who is very sensitive to numbers, even Mrs. Elizabeth Talman, a businesswoman who is used to seeing large amounts of money coming in and out, was also frightened by the news coming back from the Gestapo headquarters. Jump.

Mrs. Katie repeated, still smiling: "One billion pounds."