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The Lend-Lease Act refers to a bill by which the United States provided free or paid food, military supplies, and weapons and equipment to France, the United Kingdom, the Republic of China, and later the Soviet Union and other Allied Powers from 1941 to 1945. . It was signed into law on March 1941, 3, and ended in September 11. Most of the time, aid was free, and some supplies, such as ships, were returned after the war. In return, the United States received lease rights to army and naval bases on Allied territory for the duration of the war.

According to statistics, during the entire implementation period of the bill, a total of $501 billion worth of supplies arrived at the Allied Powers. Among them, materials worth US$314 billion were shipped to the United Kingdom, US$113 billion worth of materials were shipped to the Soviet Union, US$32 billion worth of materials were shipped to France, US$16 billion worth of materials were shipped to China, and the remaining US$26 billion worth of materials were shipped to the United Kingdom. Supplies were shipped to other Allied nations.

Lend-Lease would help British and Allied forces win the battle in the coming years; the help given in the 1941 War could be said to be minimal. But between 1943 and 1944, about a quarter of British ammunition came through Lend-Lease. Lend-lease aircraft (particularly transport aircraft) account for about a quarter of the UK's fleet, followed by grain, land transport and ships. Between 1943 and 1944, U.S. power in Europe and the Pacific began to grow overall, and Lend-Lease continued. At this time, most Allied front-line equipment was basically self-sufficient (such as tanks and fighter planes), but Lend-Lease could provide some useful supplements at this time and provide logistical supplies (including automobiles and railway equipment), which would be crucial to assisting the Allies in obtaining The ultimate victory in World War II was a huge help.

However, as the main force against the Japanese Empire, the fascist axis of evil in Asia, the Republic of China only received US$501 billion of the total military supplies worth US$16 billion.

In other words, as long as the "Baotou-Ningbo Railway" is packaged as the Third Reich version of the "Lease Act" and provides the Republic of China government with an "adequate loan" equivalent to the US$16 billion provided by the U.S. version of the "Lease Act", the plot difficulty It will be solved easily.

"Oh my God, 16 billion U.S. dollars. The official exchange rate of Reichsmarks to U.S. dollars is 2.5:1. That's a full 40 billion Reichsmarks!" Female inventor Hedy Lamarr was immediately shocked by the astronomical figures in front of her: "We are here Where to get so much money!"

"Referring to the development level of this era, an investment of US$300 million would be an epic-level production. Even if 'hundreds of millions' of funds can be raised, how can we safely transport them to China?" The second choice who is very sensitive to numbers Corner assistant Anna Moffitt is also feeling the pinch.

"I have a solution that is not a solution." After thinking for a long time, Mrs. Katie, the assistant casting director, decided to confess everything.

Danielle, the leader of the "SA3 Sisterhood" and the chief casting assistant, War Girl, immediately sent encouragement: "Tell me about it, Katie."

"Have you ever heard of 'Bank of England'?" When saying "Bank of England", Mrs. Katie, the assistant casting director, also deliberately made "quotation marks" with both hands. Clearly, this is not a bank based in Great Britain or associated with the British government.

"You mean, the one in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp?" Businesswoman Mrs. Elizabeth Talman immediately thought of it.

"Yes, it's the 'Bank of England' that the Nazis set up in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp where the premiere of "National Honor: The Great Battle" was held."

"In the 1943-hectare triangular-shaped Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Berlin, Germany, in 400. The SS commander received a message from the 'executor' Adolf Eichmann, the main person responsible for the execution of the 'Final Plan' of the Jewish Holocaust letter demanding the return of Jews taken from Auschwitz.

After reading the letter, the commander immediately wrote back to Adolf Eichmann, saying that he could not meet his request, but did not disclose the specific reasons, only that these men were serving the Reich.

If Adolf Eichmann still had questions, he could ask his boss Heinrich Himmler directly. Afterwards, the commander walked to District 19. What was obviously different from other districts was that it seemed quieter here, and the guards saluted him.

Although he received orders from his superiors to protect Area 19, he did not know what was happening in Area 19.

In District 19, 134 Jews were imprisoned in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, and their mission was to conduct a secret operation - 'Operation Bernhard'. The purpose of this operation was to disrupt the British economy by counterfeiting large amounts of pounds and allowing them to flow into the British market. The operation began as early as 1939, when Reinhard Heydrich, the head of the Central Security Bureau, supported Alfred Naujokes in counterfeiting pounds. The pound is the most stable currency in Europe. If a large number of counterfeit banknotes flow into British society, it will have a serious impact on the British economy.

However, the reason why the pound is stable is not only because of the stability of the British domestic economy and society, but also because the pound was one of the most sophisticated and mysterious designs in Europe at the time, and it was extremely difficult to forge.

However, the ease of counterfeiting depends on the resources and capabilities the counterfeiting team is able to mobilize. And when the counterfeiting team is an entire country, and the top leader of the team is Hitler, the then head of state, the resources they can mobilize are amazing. The best engravers, papermakers and mathematicians from all over Germany were brought together to calculate the pound numbers.

Gluck's SS members were responsible for counterfeiting counterfeit 5-pound notes. Although the authenticity could be distinguished under a microscope, only experienced bank tellers could identify them with the naked eye and feel.

After successfully exchanging francs, the Nazis began ordering the concentration camp Jews to print pounds and U.S. dollars frantically. The counterfeit banknotes were tainted with Jewish blood and tears, and the room where they were stored was ironically named "The Bank of England."

In order to resist, Jewish printers would mark the counterfeit banknotes so that connoisseurs could see at a glance that they were counterfeit, thus resisting the fate of being forced to become counterfeiting criminals.

The original intention of Operation Bernhard was to undermine the UK's economic environment and make the pound lose credibility by injecting water into the pound. Now it seems that this operation has been successful to some extent.

By 1945, one-third of the pounds in circulation came from Germany's 'Bank of England'. By 1959, the real Bank of England had received approximately 300 million counterfeit British pounds with obvious Jewish markings, and it was speculated that Germany had produced nearly 6 million pounds of counterfeit banknotes.

Although this goal seems to have been achieved today, at that time, the British government took vigorous blockade measures to prevent the counterfeit banknote incident from triggering panic. Therefore, although the large number of counterfeit banknotes did seriously disrupt the British economy at the time, ordinary people in British society did not panic due to the actions of the government.

As the war spread, the value of hard currency in the British Isles rose, and the participation of countries such as the United States and the Soviet Union also reduced the practical significance of the British economy. Therefore, Germany decided to use these fake banknotes as activity funds to purchase supplies around the world to support its country's war.

It was truly a spectacle: counterfeiting British banknotes and using these counterfeit banknotes to purchase supplies that actually came from Britain to support the war effort, including against Britain. In neutral countries such as Chile, Portugal, and Argentina, German embassy staff used these counterfeit pounds to exchange for local currencies to purchase necessities and supplies; in the underground black market, Germans used these counterfeit banknotes to buy gold, medicine, and food; in the Balkans They use these counterfeit banknotes to trade weapons with guerrillas in various regions; they even use these counterfeit banknotes to pay for espionage activities in the United Kingdom, France, Turkey and other places.

Due to the astonishing realism of these counterfeit coins, the Germans had no scruples about spending them. They even used them to carry out the 'Unternehmen Eiche' (Operation Oak) to rescue Mussolini in 1943. In this operation, which was full of bizarre twists and turns and was called the "devil's masterpiece", the rescue team's funds were all counterfeit banknotes from the Bank of England in Berlin, Germany.

In December 1944, the defeated Nazi regime transferred the printing equipment from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, and Operation Bernhard officially came to an end. At that time, although the British believed that the counterfeit banknotes flowing into the market came from the German Nazis, they lacked conclusive evidence. Spies sent earlier also failed to obtain any information about the incident. It was not until the rescued Jewish printers revealed the details of the German pound counterfeiting process and the scale of the operation that the truth was revealed.

In 1946, post-war Britain introduced a new version of pound banknotes to replace the old ones. They enhanced the anti-counterfeiting design and had special metal strips embedded in each banknote. Those old banknotes containing a large number of fake banknotes were recycled by banks and became what some people call a "perfect replica" covered in blood. And Nazi Germany, which forced innocent victims to become criminals, was washed away without a trace by the torrent of history. ”——Adapted from “Can the country print currencies of other countries when it has no money? In 43, when Germany had no money, it secretly printed pounds.”

"Oh my God." Second Casting Assistant Anna Moffett's face was full of disbelief: "The plot we are experiencing is too rich in elements..."