HITLER HAD WORLD'S BEST FORGERS
Received Thursday, 1.10 a.m. . - JUOfMDOJN, D.ec. 11. More than 400 oi the world'h most skiRed forgers who were recruited hy Hitler before the war to: forge English notes, mostly £5, under Ge'stapo prders, are still free, says the Evening Standard, Huge numbers oi £5 notes, detectihle only hy an expert, are cjrculating on the Continent. • Some have found their way to fing;land and Scotland ' Yard's antiforgery squad gonsider Hitler 's Rieh are the originators. Records now in the hands. of Scotland Yard and the Paris Surete^show that all Hitler 's forgers were to have been exe'euted because their skill might equally have been nsed againstr- Hitler' s regime had the Nazis won. ■ They escaped when tbe Americans overran their J ' luxury ' ' cohcentration camp and have since cirqiilated singly or in hands in most European capitals.
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Chronicle (Levin), 12 December 1946, Page 5
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