RIP: Adolf Burger dies at 99

Adolf Burger dies at 99

At the age of 99 years died Adolf Burger, the last living survivor counterfeiting workshop in the Nazi concentration camp of Sachsenhausen. The fates during the war, wrote the book, which was created by Oscar-winning shot The Counterfeiters.

Adolf Burger died Tuesday night at his Prague villa, he told iDNES.cz Burgerův in-law Lubomir Hübner.

Burger was born on August 12, 1917 in Velka Lomnica Slovak. In 1942, he was arrested and transported to Zilina first, then to Auschwitz. Since he was a printer by profession, he was transferred to Sachsenhausen, where part of Operation Bernhard prisoners forged banknotes, but also postage stamps, foreign passports and ID cards Soviet NKVD. Burger forged more than a hundred million pounds.

From Sachsenhausen was the war was transferred to the Austrian Mauthausen and then to Ebensee, where prisoners freed by the Americans. In a concentration camp he lost his young wife and mother. After the war led printer , after the trial of Rudolf Slansky "was leaving" for hard work in the shipyards. After seven years, he was offered to organize the cleaning of the city , then took a taxi.

The event Bernhard wrote shortly after the war Paper No. 64401 talking, which was filmed by the film The Counterfeiters winning the 2008 Oscar as best foreign language film. In 2001, Burger received by German President Order of Merit.

On his war years in an interview for Mlada Fronta Dnes ten years ago, he recalled: "In the counterfeiting workshop Although I had everything - your own bed, white duvet, bread, how much I wanted radio played - but fell asleep I thought, 'You're on vacation, but dead.' We never had to come out. That the Americans came faster and SS ran away, that's a little more luck. I never believed that the secret printer to survive. "

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