When we set out to publish Forging Secrets, we naively believed it might be something of a “final word” on the topic of Operation Bernhard. But even before we finished publication, new questions and new researchers were already finding their way to us. We realized then that we wanted to provide a way to draw attention to emerging and unresolved issues in the Operation Bernhard story. Thus we designated the Afterword section of the book as a place to lay out the ongoing questions and possible trails for future researchers to explore. A print-friendly version of the Afterword is linked at the bottom of this entry. (Please note this is a “lo-fi” print-friendly version that does not contain images or the visual design elements of the published hardcover version.)

Now that the book is in print, we have created this section of our website to be a living, expanding forum for further discussion. New information will be added to this page as we discover it. Entries and articles from collectors and historians are welcome, and we encourage anyone else with an interest in this topic to reach out with any questions or research inquiries. To contact us, send an email to Mikayla Hoppe at: mikayla@spungenfoundation.org

Read the Forging Secrets Afterword here. 

Research Topics

I.  Distribution of Bernhard Notes

By: Volkher von Lengeling

II.  A Possible Plapler Connection to the ‘Nazi Titanic’