THE COUNTERFEITERS
THE WAR IS OVER
BEAUTIFUL SHORE
Monsieur Sorowitsch?
I'm afraid we require a deposit.
$200 is more than enough.
ls this your first visit to Monte Carlo?
Excellent. That's going to be fine.
Little adjustment here, that's alI.
PRIVATE ROOM
Cheers.
What's that?
You're not from a camp, are you?
I'm not a...
Sally!
Schmitz!
Where's the other 150?
Know how risky it is off-Ioading your duds?
Sally!
Can you Iend me something? Twenty?
Come over alI political?
Ludwig here took me along to a meeting.
HeiI! HeiI! HeiI!
And I've joined them too!
Look!
He gave it to me 'cause I'm so kind to him!
In bed or in the party?
You see, Schmitz...
if I Iet you cheat me, tomorrow someone else wiII cheat me.
Soon they'II alI cheat me.
It's not about the 150. It's a matter of principle.
It's about my very existence, and for that I couId be driven...
to take extreme measures.
Sally, you old crook!
Let me introduce an old friend of mine!
Sally Sorowitsch, the most charming scoundrel in Berlin!
Sorowitsch?
Are you Russian?
I hope you're not a Communist?
Enough of a Communist to share my champagne with you.
Sally--that's a drolI sort of name.
Where does it come from?
It's short for Salomon.
Salomon?
She can spit the champagne back. It's a Rothschild.
I'm trusting you.
What do they always say? Don't do business with Jews!
Trying so hard not to be noticed gets you notices.
Not Iearnt that yet in the Resistance?
I'm sorry, Sally.
- In two hours up at my place. - OK, Sally.
You're Ieaving?
Tonight.
Got a tip-off. Been here too Iong.
Crack the dolIar and you can do anything.
It's not quite perfect. But one of these days...
Have you got the money?
That's what we wanted to talk to you about.
- They're our people. - Our people?
I'm me and the others are the others.
Don't you see what's going on around you?
What the Nazis are doing to us?
Know why the Jews are always persecuted?
Because they refuse to adapt! It's not that hard.
- Sally, don't you have any-- - No.
Need a certificate of Aryan purity?
I'II do one proving you descend from Siegfried and the Dragon.
Do you know Schiele?
I even met him once,
in Vienna.
A great master.
Your pictures.
I don't believe you're such an asshole.
Who'd have thought it? Hans using beautifuI women...
Listen--
The jewelry's not even worth half.
I need an Argentinean passport.
- I've already packed. - Hans, you can go.
I'II settle this with Mr. Sorowitsch.
You're Iucky...
wanting an Argentinean passport.
The home of tango.
You couId be a really great artist.
What do you know about it?
A great deal.
Otherwise I wouIdn't have stayed.
Why earn money by making art?
Earning money by making money is far easier.
I have to go.
May I?
Friedrich Herzog, Berlin CID, Countefeit Squad.
It is a great honor
to arrest the world's best countefeiter,
if that is any consolation.
The dolIar!
Bitten off more than we can chew, eh?
Go on!
Get up, you Iazy Jewish bastard!
Get up, wiII you!
You there! Get rid of that vermin!
They're out to get us.
This is no jaiI.
They're going to kiII us.
They're out to get us.
The Kapo:
Melzer.
Watch out for him.
A murderer.
The ones with the green triangIe...
habitual criminals, worse than the SS.
But you don't Iook Iike a--
If you touch me I'II cut your throat.
I'II be watching you, you filthy swine.
I'II get you!
Are you crazy? You can't just--
He has to restect me,
but not Iose face.
The same as in any otherjaiI.
On your feet!
Who did this?
Number 75517.
I Iike it.
You've caught it welI, Jew.
- It wouId be better in color. - What?
It wouId be better in color, Herr Unterscharführer.
The sheen of the boots.
Drawn from memory.
What's alI this?
Herr Hauptsturmführer, it's...
It's Iike this, I...
FIVE YEARS LATER
Sorowitsch!
Look at this.
I thought a Styrian jacket wouId Iook good!
I can paint whatever you want, Herr Sturmbannführer.
You're being moved. Sachsenhausen. Tomorrow.
But the picture isn't finished.
I have to finish the picture.
So the maggot's afraid of losing its bacon!
A dirty Iittle Jew Iike you can fix himself up anywhere!
Stinks to high heaven, that Jew!
Food.
I always admired the Russian avant-garde.
Kandinsky, Rodchenko!
At the academy in Odessa we had a professor calIed Lebed.
In my time, Lebed was a junior Iecturer.
You were at the academy? You're Russian too?
I don't Iike speaking Russian. Reminds me of bad times.
You prefer to speak German?
I had a family.
We used to say,
Lebed and good art is Iike a virgin and good...
Fucking.
So you know that one too!
Number 75517.
Salomon Sorowitsch.
The King of Counterfeiters!
SS Sturmbannführer Herzog. Don't you remember? Herzog?
CID Berlin, Countefeit Squad.
I arrested you! It got me promoted!
What size are you?
48.
- Shoe size? - 42.
Welcome to Sachsenhausen!
Name, profession, size?
Burger, printer.
ColIotype. 52.
More Iike 46/48 now.
Shoe size?
41.
No, thanks.
A non-smoker! As you wish. Much healthier!
Name, profession, size?
Welcome to Sachsenhausen.
We use a different tone here in my domain
than in the camps you've just come from.
I'd Iike to regard you as coworkers here.
Together we're going to...
Yes.
The clothes are secondhand.
You can wear prison stripes if you prefer.
After alI, stripes flatter the figure!
What's his name?
What the helI was that for?
A symbolic gesture-- to get us shot?
My dear Jews...
today I bring you a specialist of international standing,
Salomon Sorowitsch.
He wiII supervise the retouching department!
"Operation Bernhard."
Countefeit money on a huge scale.
ID cards, documents, banknotes...
alI to the Iatest technical standards.
I expect the newcomers wiII want to freshen up and relax?
Our foreman here, dear old Atze,
wiII show you around.
I wish you every success!
Another fine speech by Herr Sturmbannführer.
Fine beds.
Why are they giving us such fine beds?
It's stiII a concentration camp.
But the beds are soft.
That's good.
"Anny Ondra wiII only wash with Sarinol."
I was a commercial photographer.
Quiet in here, isn't it?
One forgets what it's Iike.
Where are they alI running to?
The shoe-testing squad.
They make the prisoners run in a circle...
to test the shoes.
Test them? How?
It's a punishment. The shoes are too smalI, sandbags on their backs.
Many of them die.
Best not to even Iisten.
Music!
Right lads, I'II show you where you'II be working!
We've got men here from alI different camps. AlI professional--
graphic artists, printers, retouchers, copper engravers.
Why are they using Jews for the work?
I assume they mean to kiII us after the war.
To keep it under wraps.
A genuine platen press. Worked with one before?
Lazy bastards! Faster, you idIe riffraff!
It's OK. He's Dr. Klinger, our Kapo.
The SS need to hear him yelIing at us.
The new arrivals?
Dr. Klinger, internal medicine.
Welcome to the Golden Cage.
Come and see me at once, young man.
That foot Iooks bad...
really bad!
I wept too, the first time I saw a printing press again.
Reminds you you're a human being.
ZiIinski, darkroom.
Matti, show him the ropes.
Karloff?
Graphics section. Through there, straight ahead. You can't miss it.
Us two beauties...
are going to Quality Control.
Dr. Viktor Hahn, Royal Prussian Credit Bank, Hamburg.
Mr. Sorowitsch wiII supervise the retouching section.
You're also from the financial sector?
Our main problem is the paper.
It has the wrong feel.
The EngIish paper has the same structure as a kind of Turkish Iinen.
We've experimented with various chemicals,
but the results remain unsatisfactory.
A green triangIe?
A habitual criminal, Herr Laube?
Sorowitsch is--if one can say so--
a "professional" counterfeiter.
TiII now the only criminals here
were those wearing Nazi uniforms, my good man.
So it besmirches your honor having to work with a jaiIbird?
If honor is alI one has Ieft!
You'II have a hard time here. And that's a promise.
Fuck you.
A weekend off!
And a shower on Sunday!
Fraternizing with a common criminal?
The true criminals are the capitalist exploiters.
They're the ones who made Fascism possible.
If a proletarian steals bread to feed his chiIdren...
That's not exactly what I did.
You gave a comrade your slice of bread.
That was solidarity.
That was soup.
A Iow number.
How did you survive so Iong in Auschwitz?
A good work detaiI.
What about a game?
- What are we playing for? - For honor's sake.
I win even when I don't cheat.
What are you doing, you idle bastard?
This isn't a rest home!
You're here to work! Understood?
Holst!
Leave him be!
Thinking can also be work, Holst! Try it yourself sometime.
AlI amateurs and idiots.
Forget the circumstances for a moment.
It's just you and me. The most perfect forgeries ever.
First the pound...
and then the dolIar!
Men, machines, material-- whatever you need!
You see, Sorowitsch...
there are ways of surviving here.
I can't guarantee it for the others, but for you...
if...
Gentlemen, can't you stop that nigger music?
As if there weren't any German music!
One more before bedtime.
Why isn't God in Auschwitz?
He didn't get through the selection process!
Kanada.
The Iow number.
I was in the Kanada work detaiI.
We sorted the Iuggage on the platform.
We took the food in the bags
whiIe the people it belonged to were being gassed.
One adapts or dies.
I can't go on Iike this.
We have it so good in here...
whiIe out there...
My wife is stiII in Auschwitz.
I won't give the Nazis the pleasure of being ashamed I'm stiII alive.
AlI prisoners to remain in their barracks!
AlIegedly not even the commandant knows what we do in here!
...wiII be shot immediately!
...anything, as long as we aren't put out here again.
Anything...
What's the matter?
They're going to gas us!
We're too valuable, they won't harm us.
Come on, get undressed.
Come on!
Burger!
Can you hear me? Are you hurt?
Get up.
- Leave him, Burger! Come here! - Dr. Klinger!
You there!
What are you doing here?
Did any of them speak to you?
Did anybody speak to you?
Number 64000.
- I asked if anybody here spoke to you. - He was lying on the...
Shut your face. Did he speak to you?
- I don't know him. - What did he say?
God, are you dumb! You come with me.
What did you say to him?
It's forbidden to speak to other prisoners.
Mr. Burger is our only colIotype expert.
He didn't speak to him either.
Go and shower.
Go and shower!
I just wanted to help him.
Move!
They're going to gas us. Gas... I can smelI it.
Water! It's water!
Odessa?
For you!
Please excuse, about today in shower.
Reminds me a bit of Lukanov.
Yes.
Do you know his city views?
Colors! A pity there are no colors here.
For me Odessa is blue, dark blue!
In the academy they said my style is bad.
But it's my art. Even if it only pleases me.
Let me have a Iook.
I can do better than that.
Let me try again.
Number 93--
Have you settled in yet?
Got everything you need?
The ID cards we're supposed to produce--
the problem's the cover and the paper.
If we couId have used originals...
You must now devote alI your efforts to the pound!
It's important we get results soon.
HimmIer is growing impatient.
What's this?
My 5-year-old couId do better!
I'm a raiI track Iayer.
I said I was a printer to get out of Sobibor.
They couIdn't translate my ID card. Help me!
Paracystosis, a material defect in the copper.
Loszek is a specialist in relief printing.
He couId be transferred to the ID card section.
Paracystosis.
Or we couId have him shot.
Beat it!
Never try to deceive me again, Sorowitsch.
We're on the same side now.
ls this some of the Turkish Iinen?
Yes. I thought--
Throw that away.
Rags!
The EngIish use rags!
Fibers, torn and abraded thousands of times!
Hardly any of the EngIish use wallets.
They pin the notes together with safety pins.
That's why we're making the Iittle holes here at the edges.
Negative retouching.
It's notjust a matter of sIipping a few notes past a shop assistant.
We intend to flood and destroy Britain's economy.
If they realize we're using forged notes...
that'II be the end of the operation.
We'd have to send you back...
to the camps.
She wasn't wearing any knickers!
Just imagine, a photo shoot with an agent, producer, and everything,
and that hot Iittle tart with no knickers! Skirt Iike this.
"Doesn't the gentleman want to take another shot?"
"Sure. I won't even need a tripod."
You're standing in the sun.
If we faiI to bring off the pound...
we shouId organize ourselves!
There's a Iot of us.
We're welI nourished, we're strong, we couId fight!
We've got tools.
With retouching knives?
Against an SS company?
Rather than Iet them gas us!
I'd rather be gassed tomorrow than shot for nothing today.
A day is a day.
A revolt wouId at Ieast be a sign!
ZiIinski's right.
You're standing in the sun.
Kolya?
When did the fever start?
Sometimes fever is bad.
In between, it's OK.
We've had TB cases here before. I asked for drugs, and...
Kleinfeld, Stiasny, JiIovsky.
AlI shot, because of the risk of infection.
Can you help him?
I'II see what I...
Without the right drugs...
Isolate him.
I'm a doctor--
internal medicine!
Bad sickness?
No, no.
The doctor wiII make it better.
I have to Iive to see when the camp is over.
Exactly!
Bring some dressings, fast!
Those original documents you asked for.
The crates came from Auschwitz.
Loszek found his chiIdren's passports.
This is pointless!
You have to survive.
Only by surviving can we defeat them!
You have to survive!
Loszek, you must survive!
Wake up!
Assemble for rolI calI outside!
Filthy Jewish scum!
Outside!
Get out!
Sorry to wake you, but I have a story to telI.
A few days ago, a businessman went into a bank in Zurich.
He was carrying a smalI case...
fuII of money.
Pound notes.
Our agent asks to open an account with his British pounds.
Of course, Monsieur.
But you must understand, for reasons of security,
we have to check the authenticity of these notes.
But of course!
In times Iike these...
For half an hour,
Swiss bank experts scrutinized our Iittle printed products,
with a vengeance.
Your bank notes.
Our examination has confirmed
that as far as we can telI...
they are...
genuine!
Wait, it's not over yet.
Our agent gets cocky!
Monsieur Ie Directeur...
since I received these notes
from an admittedly rather dubious source...
I'd prefer to have absolute certainty.
Our bank wiII accept your money.
- There is no need-- - Absolute certainty, Monsieur.
If you insist,
then I suggest we have the notes checked by the Bank of EngIand.
The Bank of EngIand!
Let's see what they have to carp about.
Maybe we'II get a few tips.
"After thorough examination, we conclude
"that the bank notes submitted by you
"in denominations of £5,
"£10, and £20 sterling...
"are not forgeries.
The Bank of EngIand herewith guarantees their authenticity."
Reichsführer SS HimmIer is very pleased with our efforts.
These duds are so perfect our plans have changed.
They're too good to be simply dropped over EngIand.
The German Reich wiII use them for its Iong-term currency dealings!
And in turn this gave me the idea...
of giving you a Iittle pleasure.
As an incentive, so to speak.
I thought perhaps...
after work, or...
at the weekend?
On behalf of alI the men, I'd Iike to thank you for alI our priviIeges.
Motivation, Klinger, motivation!
I'm interested in managing people; that's where the future Iies.
If you treat people Iike dirt, they won't work.
And if you treat dirt Iike people...
You Jews--tricks and fakery, that's what you're good at.
If one scratches just a bit at that respectable façade...
Herr Sturmbannführer.
AlI my Iife I've been an upright citizen.
I must point out that
here I am being coerced into performing dishonest acts.
ExcelIent work, Sorowitsch.
Set up a new working group for the dolIar!
Can't anyone see what's happening?
The Germans are bankrupt.
No foreign currency means no gasoline, no raw materials.
- We're financing the Nazi war effort! - So?
Are you suggesting sabotage? In a concentration camp?
The Americans use rotogravure, we're using colIotype...
in order to produce Iarge amounts quickly.
ColIotype is good for definition and halftones.
There are stiII some problems, but we're dealing with them.
ThankfuIly we have an expert in this field.
A score to settle with the dolIar?
You know it was the dolIars that Ied to your arrest.
Back then, I didn't have the technical means.
And now?
How much do you need?
Maybe a few hundred miIIion.
You cheap whore!
Just be thankfuI you're in here, you idiot!
Shit, shit, shit!
Maybe it's not the negative but your gelatin.
Sorowitsch's negative was perfect, as always.
But why...?
My wife and I were sent to Auschwitz for printing anti-Nazi flyers.
I'm not going to print money for the Nazis.
Look...
my family, smalI business...
always carefuI, never any problems with the authorities.
Kept my nose out of politics.
Gisela, my wife, always said...
the reason we're printers is to print the truth!
Where did you Iearn that slogan?
The Communist Printers' League, youth section?
If we print miIIions of dolIars, it couId decide the war.
We couId contribute to fighting the Nazis here...
that wouldn't be just a symbolic gesture!
We're alive.
- That's worth a helI of a Iot. - Exactly.
lsn't it about more than your own shitty Iittle Iife?
Our shitty Iife is the only thing we have.
ls this about surviving, or proving that you can forge the dollar?
I'II keep on destroying your negatives.
You can squeal to Herzog if you want.
We'II have to pay for it if we don't deliver!
AlI of us wiII pay!
Yes.
Warsaw!
The bastards are being driven back!
Carry on!
So you're faiIing with the dolIar?
We're stiII having problems with the gelatin,
Herr Hauptscharführer.
We can do the pound without you now.
And you know what you are without the dollar?
Nothing but criminal Jewish scum.
Fuck Herzog and his "motivation."
I'd soon make you knuckle under.
You're such filthy swine.
Stoop to anything to save your wretched Iives.
Nauseating.
Plappler.
Get Hotte. A basin's broken-- maybe he can repair it.
I saved alI our butts by forging the pound for the Nazis.
Dr. Klinger said you must eat welI.
What for?
One for the Expressionists.
One for the Avant-garde.
Eat, or I'II flatten you.
You certainly know how to bring up chiIdren.
What happened to your family?
Deported, kiIIed?
I couId've bought their release, if I'd had money.
14 to 6. Burger to serve.
Get up!
Keep running!
What's going on?
Herr Rottenführer, I was about to--
What are you waiting for?
No, please not...!
Are you crazy, soldier?
Stand at attention!
Your name, cretin?
Rottenführer Wegener, Herr Hauptscharführer.
Why are you shooting here?
What if you'd hit one of my Jews?
Play!
15 to 6.
It's a concentration camp. Dozens are murdered here every day.
Let's just stop up our ears!
16 to 6.
One of thousands.
Just be thankfuI we're on this side of the walI, Sally.
Look at that!
If you don't survive here why survive at alI?
Atze has just told me why we stiII have no results after so many months.
The gelatin, Herr Sturmbannführer. It melts.
Oh, yes!
I've already heard that Iie from the other Jew there.
Are you trying to sabotage?
- We're doing everything-- - Hold your tongue!
Don't think you're irreplaceable!
Right.
Berlin is demanding the dolIar.
Those five there.
Klinger, take down their names!
If there's no dolIar in four weeks,
those five wiII be shot and five others selected.
Not Sorowitsch, that one.
Don't believe I can't dispense with you.
By the way, Klinger.
It's Carnival time! What about having an evening's fun,
with music, dancing, cabaret, a knees-up!
I'm sure a few talented men can be found!
Herr Sturmbannführer!
I've always done my best.
He won't kiII anyone. He's got to deliver, so he's blackmaiIing us.
- What wouId you do in his position? - Me in his position?
I'd never be in the position of an SS criminal.
It's Burger.
I suspect he's deliberately...
Yesterday I saw him...
- He's sabotaging them. I know. - What?
But if he doesn't stop...
Herzog saved our Iives.
He plays fair.
- One can talk to him. - You'II hold your tongue, ZiIinski.
- One doesn't betray one's mates. - Mates?
We're to die for the ideals of that shitty political ideologue?
Sit down.
Burger the hero!
He's always determined to play the martyr.
That's fine for him, but not with me!
I Iost four toes to frostbite in Buchenwald.
They broke my back in Dachau.
More than once I nearly died of starvation.
I deserve to survive this too!
One never squeals on one's mates.
Never!
What's this?
JaiIbirds' honor?
If you betray him, I'II kiII you.
We've delayed the dolIar by months.
You've had your fun.
But now our mates' Iives are at stake.
You can't just...
Gisela...
my wife.
She was in Auschwitz too.
Shot trying to escape.
I'm...
You're sorry?
Thanks.
But now it's the dolIar!
We have to go on.
It's a matter of...
our comfortable Iife here.
Of these fine beds. These fine...
soft beds!
I thought I'd be able to cry.
Serious but stable.
A race against time.
But without medication...
What do you need?
- But how...? - The drugs!
In Theresienstadt...
there were never enough drugs.
I had to decide...
who was healed...
and who died.
Herzog's a crook. I know how to handIe him.
Need an invitation, or what?
How nice that you couId come!
For goodness' sake take the handcuffs off him.
ChiIly, isn't it?
How I wish certain East Coast circles in America could see you!
You've no idea of the dreadfuI propaganda
being circuIated about the camps!
Friedrich, do pour Herr Soritsch another cup of tea!
Do you take candy sugar-- as a Jew?
Friedrich told me you were a dangerous criminal...
and now?
Serving a noble cause!
I don't understand anything about politics, but...!
Now, chiIdren...
we must Ieave Daddy and his visitor alone.
Leni, Lotte...
and Iittle Friedrich.
Bringing up chiIdren...
making responsible individuals of them,
who take charge of their Iives.
I don't hit my chiIdren.
Ever.
Words are enough...
and setting a good example oneself.
That's what counts, Sorowitsch.
After alI, who knows what the future wiII bring?
If the Russians come...
one wiII just have to fight anew for one's place in society.
Do you know...
I used to be--a long, Iong time ago--a Communist.
Liberty, equality, human rights--
the whole caboodIe!
And don't get the idea that I'm a Nazi!
No, no.
No more grand ideals.
I do my work where I'm needed.
Do you understand?
Everyone has to Iook out for himself.
You must produce the dolIar!
Any Ionger and I can't--
I know about the sabotage. I know you won't betray your friends.
But I must deliver the goods.
Whatever the price.
Who's it for?
And then I get the dolIar?
You Jews!
You'd even bargain with a comrade's Iife!
By the way, that Burger--
Absolutely trustworthy.
ColIotype. Our most important man.
Only six days left WiII you do the dolIar?
Leibowitz is a rotogravure printer. Show him how, so you don't have to--
No, ZiIinski.
We have a responsibiIity
towards our famiIies and our comrades...
- because we've got it so good. - I can't Iisten to this crap any Ionger!
So you decide that we get ourselves shot?
It's the principle.
Nobody's prepared to die for a principle.
That's why the Nazis' system works!
You wiII do the fucking dolIar!
WelI...
Iet's see what progress has been made.
Herr Sturmbannführer...
we're stiII having problems with the gelatin.
Herr Sturmbannführer, no, it's Iike this.
Burger...
See if you can telI which are the genuine ones.
The dolIar!
That is briIIiant!
Your masterpiece!
Using colIotype we couId produce a miIIion a week?
Now that is a nice surprise for Carnival!
I knew you couId be relied upon!
Ladies and gentlemen,
Iet me give you a very warm welcome to our 1945 Carnival Show.
From the world's most expensive stage!
Try not to cough when Herzog's around.
You always wanted colors!
Listen...
here's another one...
you've not heard this one yet.
A nun goes to the gynecologist with a hamster...
Wait, I haven't finished yet!
That you alI owe your Iives to me, for getting you out of...
- Auschwitz, Mauthausen... - The drugs?
Name, place of birth, in capitals.
SWISS PASSPORT
Put "Jew" as welI, to be on the safe side.
You should take care you don't get infected.
Ultimately, your survival is what it's alI about!
These are difficuIt times.
It's no Ionger easy for me either.
WonderfuI!
This wiII give us a chance.
Where's Kolya?
How old are you?
Twenty.
And where are you from?
Odessa.
The Black Sea, how Iovely.
Kneel down.
Karloff had TB,
a very dangerous, infectious disease.
He was endangering the health of you alI,
so I had to shoot him.
For your own good, Iads!
We smoked a cigarette together.
He knew what was going to happen.
I telI you, he was really brave.
A Jew...
but he died Iike a man!
But now, Iet's forget about it!
Sturmbannführer Herzog has had to Ieave,
but he Ieft me these to give you.
So Iet's thank him for that with three cheers!
Carry on as you were!
Stop work!
Stop work immediately! Dismantle the machines!
The Exakt platen press, the rotopress,
and the Boston press must be loaded first.
We must find out--
Didn't I express myself clearly enough?
I said dismantle the machines!
You've got exactly six days to dismantle and pack everything!
Anything not working afterwards counts as sabotage!
What's wrong with you? Get them moving!
Standing there Iike stuffed dummies.
The Exakt platen press,
the rotopress, and the Boston press must be Ioaded first.
Herr Hauptscharführer, where are we being moved?
How dare you? Think we're a travel agency?
Are you stupid, or what?
A stupid fucking Jew!
Hurry up!
Those aren't aircraft bombs.
They're not aircraft bombs, it's artiIIery!
The AlIies are outside Berlin!
If the war's ending, they'II kiII us.
Lads!
The machines wiII be taken to a safe hiding place.
Secret caves in the Alps.
You'II be folIowing on.
Hand these out to the men!
Don't worry, men!
We'II alI be fine come the Final Victory!
The shoe-testing squad.
They're not there anymore.
What are you doing here?
I forgot something.
Sorowitsch, I warn you.
If I'm harmed, you'II alI be Iiquidated!
I'm your only chance of surviving!
Do you want the money?
We can share the money!
ls it about Kolya?
It was Holst who shot him!
I know you think Holst was only folIowing orders.
But what do you think I did?
I always treated you welI!
No other prisoners were treated so welI as here!
I can't save the entire Jewish race on my own!
One has to Iook after oneself.
You know that better than anyone.
You've pissed yourself.
What's happened here, Sally?
Herzog.
- You haven't...? - I wanted to kiII him, but...
I Iet him go.
They'II put us up against a walI.
That wouId've suited you, wouldn't it?
If they'd shot you too.
It's over.
The war's over.
No one wiII come for us now.
I'm just not cut out to play the martyr.
Got any cards?
Our people have taken over the camp! This is the end.
We're free!
Dr. Klinger, internal medicine.
We're the inmates from Blocks 18 and 19.
I know him! He's SS!
No, no, no!
Operation Bernhard.
- We're prisoners! - Mow them down, the scum!
We're Jews.
Shoot them, the fat pigs!
Here! Jewish nose, big ears!
Don't shoot. We're prisoners.
Here, Auschwitz!
Who else was in Auschwitz?
We Iet the negatives for the dolIar overheat,
to make the contours blur.
They threatened to shoot us.
This is Burger! He's a hero!
Say something!
And then it was too Iate!
The dolIar wouId have changed the course of the war.
They'd have had heaps of dough.
Sometimes we heard that lovely music.
We made the pound here.
CIever, eh?
I told him he had to keep going.
I only said...
he had to survive untiI it was over.
What an idiot.
Best get away from here.
Forget alI about it!
Where do I take him? He's dead.
FuII house.
To change?
No, for the staff.
May I offer you a bottle of champagne on the house?
You had bad Iuck?
So much money!
We can always make us some more.
The Sachsenhausen counterfeiting workshop
forged pound notes to a total value of £132 miIIion...
equivalent to four times Britain's foreign currency reserves.
Thanks to the inmates' delaying tactics,
only a very smalI number of dollars was produced.
"Operation Bernhard" remains
the largest counterfeiting operation of alI time.