Bank welcomes Adolf Burger, the forger who shortchanged the Nazis - Times Online The man who forged the equivalent of £3 billion in a Nazi plot to bring down the British economy during the Second World War was invited to the Bank of England this week to inspect one of his counterfeit banknotes. Adolf Burger, 91, a Slovakian Jew who was coerced into producing near-perfect forgeries at a concentration camp, held the note up to the light and grunted in acknowledgement. “Yes,” he said in Czech. “This is one of mine.”
