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Nazi counterfeiters: the story of a Nazi counterfeiting scheme during WWII illustrates the clear difference between governments that are free and those that are totalitarian.(HISTORY--PAST AND PERSPECTIVE)
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Imagine a situation in which billions of expertly counterfeited dollars have suddenly flooded our streets and rooftops--literally dropped from airplanes. Some of the counterfeit bills would be turned in, but others would be used and likely not detected. Consumers and producers, unsure of which notes were real, would lose all confidence in the currency. An economic crash would likely follow.
This is just what the Nazis had in mind on the eve of World War II. Called Operation Bernhard, the production of counterfeit money was the work of expert printers and engravers rounded up by SS units and supervised by an SS officer named ...
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