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1 Pound Propaganda Note
| Issuer | German Third Reich (Nazi propaganda) |
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| Year | 1942 |
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| Size | 154 x 85 mm |
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| Obverse description | Close imitation of the Bank of England 1 Pound note (P#367), printed in brown rather than the original blue and pink colour scheme. The design replicates the general layout and vignette elements of the wartime British issue. |
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| Reverse lettering | علامات الانحلال لو تأملت هذه الورقة المالية، لتذكرت ذلك الوقت الذى كان يدفع لك فى مقابلها عشرة اضعاف وزنها من الذهب البرّاق والخلاّب. ذلك لأن هذه الوريقة كانت مضمونة من الامبراطورية العظمى بكل ما تمتلكه من قوى وغنى وأبهة. ولكن عظمتها زالت وغناها اندثر كالورق البالى. فا هى قيمة الورق اليوم؟ لابد انك ملمّ بذلك. ان كل يوم قد مرّ من ايام هذه الحرب التي اثارتها انكلترا، قد مزّق من قوى الامبراطورية الانكليزية وكل معركة خسرتها انكلترا كانت سبباً فى تدهور النقد البريطانى. ان اليوم قد قرب الذى سيرفض فيه الشحاذ المتسوّل على قارعة الطريق قبول الجنيه الانكليزى وان كنت ستعطيه اياه كهبة منك. ان الله قد اراد انحلال بريطانيا وسوف يكون... |
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A forgery of the British one pound note, produced by Germany under Operation Bernhard — initially conceived as a Luftwaffe airdrop campaign to destabilize the British economy, though the plan was never executed at scale. The actual printing was carried out by concentration camp prisoners at Sachsenhausen, many of them professional counterfeiters and printers recruited under duress.
Quality was high enough to deceive British banks. Some notes entered circulation through neutral countries, particularly via SS financial networks in Switzerland and the Balkans, used to fund covert operations rather than the original mass-drop scheme.