Sachsenhausen was a Nazi concentration camp in Oranienburg, Germany, used primarily for political prisoners from 1936 to 1945. The camp is located 22 miles north of Berlin, Sachsenhausen was a training centre for Schutzstaffel (SS) officers who would often be sent to oversee other camps afterwards. Of the roughly 30,000 wartime victims at Sachsenhausen, most were Russian prisoners of war. Sachsenhausen was the birthplace of Operation Bernhard, a secret Nazi plan devised during the WWII by the RSHA and the SS to destabilize the British economy by flooding the country with forged banknotes. It was the largest counterfeiting operation in history. By the time Sachsenhausen was evacuated in April 1945 their printing press had produced 8,965,080 banknotes with a total value of £134,610,810. The notes are considered among the most perfect counterfeits ever produced, being almost impossible to distinguish from the real currency.

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