The £132M Forgery Hidden at the Bottom of a Dead Lake

Lake Toplitz is the Austrian dead lake where the Nazis dumped £132 million in perfect fake pounds. At 718 meters in the Dead Mountains, its deep water has no oxygen below 20 meters, preserving paper, wood and sunken crates for decades beneath a tangled ceiling of logs. This film traces Operation Bernhard at Sachsenhausen, the 140 prisoners forced to forge 9 million notes under Bernhard Kruger, the 1959 Stern expedition and the five divers who died between 1959 and 1963, and why Austria still bans diving without a permit.