The devil's workshop : a memoir of the Nazi counterfeiting operation / Adolf Burger

Burger, Adolf (1917-2016)

Published by Barnsley : Frontline, 2009

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Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 288 pages : illustrations. Contents: Title Page; The Reason I Am Still Alive; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Dedication; PART I -- SLOVAKIA -- AUSCHWITZ -- BIRKENAU; 1 -- Childhood and Youth in Slovakia; Jews are Marked; Highest Orders of the HG Militia: All Jews Out!; 2 -- Arrest; 3 -- Transport to the Ramp at Auschwitz; 4 -- Arrival in Auschwitz Concentration Camp; 5 -- SS Block-Leader -- Block-Wardens (Älteste) -- Kapos; 6 -- Hard Labour in a Kommando; 7 -- Victims (Muselmänner); 8 -- Sick; 9 -- Clear- Up Kommando 'Canada'; 10 -- Guards; 11 -- Arrival in Birkenau; 12 -- Typhoid Fever; 13 -- Extermination Policy; 14 -- Women in Birkenau.15 -- The First Deportation from Slovakia -- 1,000 Jewish Girls, 23 March 194216 -- Bunker -- Block 11; 17 -- General Selection; 18 -- Theresienstadt Ghetto; 19 -- Paraguay; 20 -- The Gypsy Camp in KZ Birkenau; 21 -- Extermination of 450, 000 Hungarian Jews; 22 -- Escape; PART II -- THE FORGERY WORKSHOP IN KZ SACHSENHAUSEN; 1 -- From KZ Birkenau to KZ Sachsenhausen; 2 -- The Forgery Workshop; 3 -- Previous Forgery Operations; 4 -- 'Operation Andreas'; 5 -- Production of English Notes Begins; 6 -- 'Operation Bernhard'; 7 -- Into Liberated Yugoslavia with Forged Money; 8 -- Distribution of Sterling Notes.9 -- Salamon Smolianoff -- Forgery Expert10 -- Dollar Forgery; 11 -- Resistance; 12 -- Himmler's Orders -- Success or Death; 13 -- 'Pierre' -- Elyesa Bazna 'Cicero', Top Nazi Spy; 14 -- Prisoners Held Hostage; 15 -- Forgery of Documents; 16 -- Illness and Murder; 17 -- Despair and Encouragement; 18 -- Cabaret; 19 -- SS -- First Doubts of Final Victory; 20 -- Forgery of Stamps in KZ Sachsenhausen -- 'Operation Water Wave'; 21 -- Evacuation; PART III -- KZ MAUTHAUSEN -- KZ 'SCHLIER' -- REDL-ZIPF -- KZ EBENSEE -- TOPLITZSEE; 1 -- KZ Mauthausen; 2 -- KZ 'Schlier' -- Redl-Zipf; 3 -- End of 'Operation Bernhard'4 -- Murder of Karl Sussmann5 -- KZ Ebensee; 6 -- Liberation; 7 -- The Last March; 8 -- No Home to Go To; 9 -- Nazis Flee; 10 -- Toplitzsee; 11 -- US TV Channel CBS Search with 'Oceaneering' Diving Team -- WASP Salvages Wooden Cases Full of Sterling Notes; PART IV -- APPENDICES; I -- Summary of Numbers Interned and Killed in Concentration Camps; II -- List of Prisoners in the Forgery Kommando in KZ Sachsenhausen; III -- Occupations of 141 Political Prisoners and 1 Criminal Prisoner from Blocks 18 and 19 in KZ Sachsenhausen.IV -- Nationalities of 141 Political Prisoners and 1 Criminal Prisoner from Blocks 18 and 19 in KZ SachsenhausenV -- Members of RHSA who Directed or Guarded the Forgery Operation; VI -- Comparative Table of Military Ranks; Select Bibliography; Abbreviations; Index of Names. Subjects: Burger, Adolf 1917-2016. Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp). Operation Bernhard, Germany, 1940-1945. World War, 1939-1945 Counterfeit money. 1 Kg.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The devil's workshop : a memoir of the Nazi counterfeiting operation / Adolf Burger
• Publisher: Barnsley : Frontline
• Publication Date: 2009
• Binding: Hardcover
• Weight: 1 kilogram