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Nazi Counterfeiters in WWII

Friday, February 22, 2008

The new film "The Counterfeiters" tells the strange but true story of a Nazi counterfeiting scheme during WWII. Stefan Ruzowitzky is the director; Karl Markowitz is one of its stars. It opens today at the Angelika (18 W. Houston St) and Lincoln Plaza Cinemas.

Official website for "The Counterfeiters"
"The Counterfeiters" showtimes at the Angelika


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  • [1] Menachem Salomon from Brooklyn February 23, 2008 - 08:50PM

    The story of the counterfeiting operation of the Germans is the topic of "Counterfeit Lives" by Avraham Krakowsky. The book is one of a series called "The Holocaust Diaries", by Avraham Yaakov Finkel (Feldheim Publishers). In the book, Krakowsky, a Chasidic young man from Sosnowice, is brought to Sachsenhausen to be a member of the counterfeiting work. His job is to inspect the bills for errors, as well as to mark them so they appear used.

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