History and Film: The Counterfeiters

One of my favorite movies last year was The Counterfeiters, the true story of a group of Nazi prisoners who were recruited for unusual work: to counterfeit British currency. (Incidentally, the movie won an Oscar for Best Foreign Film.) Here is the New York Times review of The Counterfeiters. While the film is loosely based on Operation Bernhard (the actual plan to destabilize British currency in World War Two), it provides interesting insights into the real dilemmas of the Holocaust, and the difficulties in portraying the horrors of the Nazi camps in modern film.