Panorama Ambitious Nazi counterfeiting plot recalled by Holocaust survivor

12-04-2007 13:18 | Ian Willoughby, Alexis Rosenzweig

Among the films premiered at this year's Berlin Film Festival was a German-language picture called Die Falscher - The Counterfeiter. It is based on the remarkable memoirs of Adolf Burger. Along with 140 other Jewish concentration camp prisoners, he survived the war after being enlisted to take part in an ambitious Nazi counterfeiting plot aimed at crashing the economies of the Allies.

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