The | Counterfeiters

: Nazi Germany aimed to flood the United Kingdom with counterfeit currency to trigger hyperinflation and collapse the British financial system.

: It is considered the most ambitious counterfeiting scheme ever recorded, producing millions of pounds that were often indistinguishable from the real thing. The Counterfeiters

: The movie explores the agonizing moral "gray zone" of survival. The prisoners must decide whether to sabotage the operation to hurt the Nazi war effort (risking immediate execution) or cooperate to stay alive. : Nazi Germany aimed to flood the United

: It won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film . The prisoners must decide whether to sabotage the

: Set during WWII, the film follows Salomon "Sally" Sorowitsch, a master Jewish forger imprisoned at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. He is coerced by the Nazis to lead a team of prisoners in forging British pounds and American dollars to destabilize the Allied economies.

Counterfeiting has evolved from a wartime weapon into a multi-billion dollar global criminal industry.

Taming the Counterfeiting Epidemic - MIT Sloan Management Review