The Secret Documents

1. The Nazi Plot Begins
2. Churchill and the Mandarins
3. Roosevelt Toys with Counterfeiting
4. Bernhard Krueger in Action
5. The Bank is Robbed, and the Swiss Get Pounded
6. The Money Launderers
7. Dollars--and the Final Dump
   A master counterfeiter, Salomon Smolianoff, was recruited for the last throw of the dice: the switch from pounds to dollars. Smolianoff was found in Mauthausen concentration camp and transferred to Block 19 at Sachsenhausen. The plan failed, and the problem then was to get rid of the evidence.
   • Smolianoff Interpol Wanted Bulletin (1)
   • Smolianoff's Prisoner's Card (Haftlings Personal Karte), (1)
     NARA RG 242 , A-3355, Mauthausen, roll 7..
   • Smolianoff's tale to the interrogator, (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
     PRO MEPO 3/2766 Trafficking of Forged Bank of England Notes.
   • Hans Kraft and Viktor Doubrava drive away a truckload of the pounds, (1)
     McNally Report, Appendix D.
8. "Let Sleeping Dogs Lie"

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Compiled and Selected by Lawrence Malkin and Margaret Shannon.

Unless otherwise identified, public documents are credited to the U.S. National Archives (NARA); The British National Archives/Public Record Office (PRO), and the archives of the Bank of England (B/E).

Detailed citations are found in the endnotes to Krueger's Men.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Smolianoff's Tale to the Interrogator (2 of 7)

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