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World War II black comedy based on the true story of an SS conman, and on scripts by Jack Pulman.

Story

Private Gerhardt Otto Schulz, inducted into the SS's dirty tricks department in spite of all his efforts to keep out of the firing line, conceives the idea of flooding the British economy with forged five pound notes. The plan is implemented and his commanding officer, Neuheim, based on Alfred Naujocks, the man who claimed to have started the Second World War, takes all the credit.

When Schulz is parachuted into enemy British territory to bury a canister of fivers, the mission goes disastrously wrong and on his return to Germany he is thrown into prison.

How he spends the rest of the war and the ensuing peacetime attempting to recover his counterfeit inheritance is the story of Private Schulz.

And all this actually happened . . .

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