Holocaust concentration camps money - 1 Dollar 1945 Propaganda bankntoe - Italy, printed by the Germans

Holocaust concentration camps money - 1 Dollar 1945 Propaganda bankntoe - Italy, printed by the Germans
In late April of 1945, the United States Fifth Army was preparing to slug it out with entrenched German forces along the Po River in Northern Italy.
By the 23rd of the month, the 337th, 338th and 339th Infantry Regiments of the 85th U.S. Infantry Division were crossing the Po and moving rapidly northward. The expected strong German defense never materialized and the Po Valley offensive turned into a complete rout of the Axis forces. The 339th Regiment raced ahead at full speed, men riding in jeeps mounted with machine guns and even in captured German and Italian staff cars. By 0815 of April 26th, forward elements were entering the town of Verona. Verona was a center of Fascist propaganda. Several major printing plants were located in the city and these were known to have produced stamps, postcards, posters, and pamphlets meant to bolster the Italian morale and will to continue the war. Colonel Floyd E. Minor, Commanding Officer of the Third Battalion of the 339th, found that because of the headlong retreat of the enemy he had advanced beyond the range of his maps. His men reported that the Germans had left vast quantities of printed material in the now-vacant printing plants and storage facilities. He decided to lead a patrol through the warehouses in search of operational maps of the area. In a storage building located on a private estate just north of Verona he found maps of the surrounding area, all the way to the Brenner Pass. Continuing to search, he was surprised to find a large bundle of United States $1 Silver Certificates of 1935. The banknotes all bore the serial number D85826026A. Note the wrinkle horizontally across the front and back of the note. There is no wrinkle on the German parody. The wrinkle was on the original note that they photographed so it also appears on the reproduction leaflet. The notes had been reproduced by the Germans and had a short Italian-language propaganda message overprinted on the back: The promises of the Americans are of no value - they look fine and good, but they are only illusions (like this banknote).