Sachsenhausen Memorial & Museum

This guide to Sachsenhausen Memorial & Museum in Berlin follows Operation Bernhard, the SS scheme that forced one hundred and forty-two prisoners to forge British banknotes so convincing the Bank of England reportedly never caught one abroad. Run by SS officer Bernhard Krueger, the operation gave its prisoners unusual comforts amid the camp's brutality, addressing them with the polite word for you rather than the insults guards used elsewhere in the camp. Krueger later pushed the same prisoners toward counterfeiting American dollars.