Nanjucks told his interrogators that he was in charge of spearheading a campaign called Operation Bernhard designed to undermine the British economy.
The instructions came from Hitler himself, who wanted to drop huge quantities of forged bank notes from German aircraft[s],” writes Dunley. Hitler apparently hoped that the scheme would dangerously inflate the British wartime economy and weaken Great Britain, making it an easier target for a German invasion. The Nazis also planned to counterfeit American dollars with the hopes of doing the same across the Atlantic to the United States.
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Nanjucks told his interrogators that he was in charge of spearheading a campaign called Operation Bernhard designed to undermine the British economy.
The instructions came from Hitler himself, who wanted to drop huge quantities of forged bank notes from German aircraft[s],” writes Dunley. Hitler apparently hoped that the scheme would dangerously inflate the British wartime economy and weaken Great Britain, making it an easier target for a German invasion. The Nazis also planned to counterfeit American dollars with the hopes of doing the same across the Atlantic to the United States.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/nazis-planned-bomb-britain-forged-bank-notes-180958258/
so that how germany fixed their hyperinflation, they doubled it and passed it to the next person
You have wallpaper now
Thank goodness that Peaky Blinders guy stopped this plan
Well if you look at it in another way, they succeeded. The UK never really recovered from WW2 finance wise.