Burger, Adolf (119 results)

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. One of the most remarkable episodes of the Second World War was the German attempt to forge currency and trigger the economic collapse of the Allies. The counterfeit operation was one of the largest the world has ever seen and lead to the post-war reissue of sterling. At the Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Berlin, Jewish prisoners of 13 different nationalities were forced to work on producing counterfeit pound and dollar notes worth billions. The plan was known as Operation Bernhard. The forgeries that were produced were virtually undetectable. Only the most senior forgers were able to spot the fakes - even staff at the Bank of England failed to do so. In this extraordinary memoir, the sole surviving Czech counterfeiter, Adolf Burger, describes his wartime experiences. He recounts the harrowing facts surrounding the murder of his wife Gizela in Auschwitz, as well as his own time as a prisoner in four concentration camps. He was working as a counterfeiter until his liberation from a concentration camp at Ebensee on 5 May 1945. Supported by hitherto unseen documentation and photographs that Burger took of his fellow prisoners after the war, this is a shocking account which sheds fresh light on the calculated barbarity of the Nazi war machine. AUTHOR: Adolf Burger was born in Slovakia in 1917. Together with his wife, he was arrested in August 1942; both were sent to Auschwitz. Burger was transferred to the forgery workshop at Sachsenhausen in Berlin in 1944. One of the last surviving witnesses of the Nazi counterfeiting operation, he was a consultant for the film The Counterfeiters, and winner of the 2008 Foreign Language Oscar. Burger's memoir has been published in Hungarian, Persian, Japanese and Czech. The remarkable true story of Operation Bernhard - the Nazi plan to forge pound and dollar bank notes, thereby ruining the Allied economies. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Paperback. Condition: New. During the Second World War, to undermine the Allies' economies, the Nazis forged large numbers of pound and dollar notes. The work was carried out by inmates of Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Adolf Burger, a Slovakian Jew, was transferred there from Auschwitz, where his wife Gisela was murdered. One of the few survivors, he tells his story as a warning to future generations.

Paperback. Condition: New. One of the most remarkable episodes of the Second World War was the German attempt to forge currency and trigger the economic collapse of the Allies. The counterfeit operation was one of the largest the world has ever seen and lead to the post-war reissue of sterling. At the Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Berlin, Jewish prisoners of 13 different nationalities were forced to work on producing counterfeit pound and dollar notes worth billions. The plan was known as Operation Bernhard.The forgeries that were produced were virtually undetectable. Only the most senior forgers were able to spot the fakes - even staff at the Bank of England failed to do so.In this extraordinary memoir, the sole surviving Czech counterfeiter, Adolf Burger, describes his wartime experiences. He recounts the harrowing facts surrounding the murder of his wife Gizela in Auschwitz, as well as his own time as a prisoner in four concentration camps. He was working as a counterfeiter until his liberation from a concentration camp at Ebensee on 5 May 1945.Supported by hitherto unseen documentation and photographs that Burger took of his fellow prisoners after the war, this is a shocking account which sheds fresh light on the calculated barbarity of the Nazi war machine.

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Paperback. Condition: New. One of the most remarkable episodes of the Second World War was the German attempt to forge currency and trigger the economic collapse of the Allies. The counterfeit operation was one of the largest the world has ever seen and lead to the post-war reissue of sterling. At the Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Berlin, Jewish prisoners of 13 different nationalities were forced to work on producing counterfeit pound and dollar notes worth billions. The plan was known as Operation Bernhard.The forgeries that were produced were virtually undetectable. Only the most senior forgers were able to spot the fakes - even staff at the Bank of England failed to do so.In this extraordinary memoir, the sole surviving Czech counterfeiter, Adolf Burger, describes his wartime experiences. He recounts the harrowing facts surrounding the murder of his wife Gizela in Auschwitz, as well as his own time as a prisoner in four concentration camps. He was working as a counterfeiter until his liberation from a concentration camp at Ebensee on 5 May 1945.Supported by hitherto unseen documentation and photographs that Burger took of his fellow prisoners after the war, this is a shocking account which sheds fresh light on the calculated barbarity of the Nazi war machine.

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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 288 pages. 9.75x7.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Black covers in a red & pictorial dust jacket. 4to, 288 pages. Page notations written on the (blank) last free end paper.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Large 8VO, Hardback with unclipped Dust Jacket. VI + 288 Pages, Illustrations. A Near Fine Copy in likewise Jacket. Extra postage may apply for overseas orders. All books are posted in a sturdy book box.

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 6-3/4" x 9-7/8", (viii) + 288pp. Glued signatures in black buckram boards. Minor edge wear to jacket. Binding is square and tight. Pages are clean and bright and unmarked.

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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. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Light wear to the dust jacket. Orders received by 3pm Sent from the UK that weekday in recyclable card packaging.

Condition: New. 2022. Paperback. . . . . .

Condition: very good. Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.

Condition: as new. Wie neu/Like new.

Softcover. Condition: Fair. Verschmutzung / Wasserschaden; Gebrochener Buchrücken / Seiten oder Softcover umgeknickt; Abnutzung / Risse - deutlich.