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Toplitz Lake 1951


Recovery of British Pounds counterfeit by a Nazi commando in WW II.



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The case of the counterfeit Pounds: towards the end of World War II, the Nazi regime decided to produce counterfeit Pounds in order to destabilize the British currenccy. At the time of the German defeat, boxes of fake money were sunk in an Austrian lake and retrieved by divers in 1959.
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The case of the counterfeit Pounds: towards the end of World War II, the Nazi re...

The case of the counterfeit Pounds: towards the end of World War II, the Nazi regime decided to produce counterfeit Pounds in order to destabilize the British currenccy. At the time of the German defeat, boxes of fake money were sunk in an Austrian lake and retrieved by divers in 1959.
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The case of the counterfeit Pounds: towards the end of World War II, the Nazi re...

The case of the counterfeit Pounds: towards the end of World War II, the Nazi regime decided to produce counterfeit Pounds in order to destabilize the British currenccy. At the time of the German defeat, boxes of fake money were sunk in an Austrian lake and retrieved by divers in 1959.
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The case of the counterfeit Pounds: towards the end of World War II, the Nazi re...

The case of the counterfeit Pounds: towards the end of World War II, the Nazi regime decided to produce counterfeit Pounds in order to destabilize the British currenccy. At the time of the German defeat, boxes of fake money were sunk in an Austrian lake and retrieved by divers in 1959.
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The case of the counterfeit Pounds: towards the end of World War II, the Nazi re...

The case of the counterfeit Pounds: towards the end of World War II, the Nazi regime decided to produce counterfeit Pounds in order to destabilize the British currenccy. At the time of the German defeat, boxes of fake money were sunk in an Austrian lake and retrieved by divers in 1959.
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The case of the counterfeit Pounds: towards the end of World War II, the Nazi re...

The case of the counterfeit Pounds: towards the end of World War II, the Nazi regime decided to produce counterfeit Pounds in order to destabilize the British currenccy. At the time of the German defeat, boxes of fake money were sunk in an Austrian lake and retrieved by divers in 1959.
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The case of the counterfeit Pounds: towards the end of World War II, the Nazi re...

The case of the counterfeit Pounds: towards the end of World War II, the Nazi regime decided to produce counterfeit Pounds in order to destabilize the British currenccy. At the time of the German defeat, boxes of fake money were sunk in an Austrian lake and retrieved by divers in 1959.
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The case of the counterfeit Pounds: towards the end of World War II, the Nazi re...