Bad Aussee resistance movement and 'Operation Berhard' 1944-1956

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Bad Aussee resistance movement and 'Operation Berhard' 1944-1956

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Operation Bernhard was the name of a secret German plan devised during the Second World War to destabilise the British economy by flooding the country with forged Bank of England £5, £10, £20, and £50 notes. Bad Aussee was the location of a salt mine where the Germans had stored a huge number of European art treasures which they had pillaged. After being dropped into the local area, Albrecht Gaiswinkler raised a force of around 300 men and armed them with captured German...

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