Bethe Ansatz: Screening of “The Counterfeiters (Die Fälscher)” followed by a discussion with Cory Doctorow, AD White Professor-At-Large

Cory Doctorow will introduce and afterwards lead a discussion of the 2007 Austrian-German film, /Die Fälscher /(/The Counterfeiters)/. The movie is based on a true story, the attempt by Nazi Germany to crash the Allied economies by introducing reams of forged dollars and pounds, notes created by a press-gang of Jewish counterfeiters, engravers, bankers and printers in a concentration camp, whose lives depended on creating convincing fakes.

Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist and journalist known for his work on digital rights, copyright reform, and internet freedom.

Discussion moderated by:

Raymond Craib, Associate Chair & Marie Underhill Noll Professor of History
Suman Seth, Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow and Marie Underhill Noll Professor of the History of Science

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