Nazi Treasure: Sunken Boxes, Looted Gold and the Files Locked After the War
In July 1959, divers in Austria’s Lake Toplitz brought up wooden boxes filled with counterfeit British banknotes. The Bank of England confirmed that the notes were linked to Operation Bernhard, a Nazi programme that forced concentration-camp prisoners to produce forged money in an attempt to damage Britain’s financial system. A lake almost 100 metres deep, boxes dumped as the war collapsed and a real counterfeiting operation created the story of a huge treasure below the water.
In July 1959, divers in Austria’s Lake Toplitz brought up wooden boxes filled with counterfeit British banknotes. The Bank of England confirmed that the notes were linked to Operation Bernhard, a Nazi programme that forced concentration-camp prisoners to produce forged money in an attempt to damage Britain’s financial system. A lake almost 100 metres deep, boxes dumped as the war collapsed and a real counterfeiting operation created the story of a huge treasure below the water.
In July 1959, divers in Austria’s Lake Toplitz brought up wooden boxes filled with counterfeit British banknotes. The Bank of England confirmed that the notes were linked to Operation Bernhard, a Nazi programme that forced concentration-camp prisoners to produce forged money in an attempt to damage Britain’s financial system. A lake almost 100 metres deep, boxes dumped as the war collapsed and a real counterfeiting operation created the story of a huge treasure below the water.
In July 1959, divers in Austria’s Lake Toplitz brought up wooden boxes filled with counterfeit British banknotes. The Bank of England confirmed that the notes were linked to Operation Bernhard, a Nazi programme that forced concentration-camp prisoners to produce forged money in an attempt to damage Britain’s financial system. A lake almost 100 metres deep, boxes dumped as the war collapsed and a real counterfeiting operation created the story of a huge treasure below the water.
In July 1959, divers in Austria’s Lake Toplitz brought up wooden boxes filled with counterfeit British banknotes. The Bank of England confirmed that the notes were linked to Operation Bernhard, a Nazi programme that forced concentration-camp prisoners to produce forged money in an attempt to damage Britain’s financial system. A lake almost 100 metres deep, boxes dumped as the war collapsed and a real counterfeiting operation created the story of a huge treasure below the water.
In July 1959, divers in Austria’s Lake Toplitz brought up wooden boxes filled with counterfeit British banknotes. The Bank of England confirmed that the notes were linked to Operation Bernhard, a Nazi programme that forced concentration-camp prisoners to produce forged money in an attempt to damage Britain’s financial system. A lake almost 100 metres deep, boxes dumped as the war collapsed and a real counterfeiting operation created the story of a huge treasure below the water.