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

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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.;The complete story of the world's most incredible forgery operation, told by the last surviving Czech counterfeiter of Operation Bernhard. Burger describes his ordeals in different concentration camps before he was enlisted to work alongside other highly qualified experts who were forced to forge currency and other documents. 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.