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A £5 note (White fiver) forged by Sachsenhausen concentration camp prisonersOperation Bernhard was an exercise by Nazi Germany to forge British bank notes.The initial plan was to drop the notes over Britain to bring about a collapse of the British economy during the Second World War.
Currently authorities capture less than 1% in annual tax revenue on untaxed wealth transferred between EU members. [354] According to the Tax Justice Network , worldwide, a global super-rich elite had between $21 and $32 trillion (up to 26,000bn Euros) hidden in secret tax havens by the end of 2010, resulting in a tax deficit of up to $280bn.
In 1934, one year after becoming Chancellor, the tax office of Munich sent Hitler a fine of 405,494 ℛ︁ℳ︁ for failing to declare his income or file tax returns. [18] He was given only eight days to pay off this debt. [18] Hitler responded by ordering a state secretary of the ministry of finance to intervene, and became tax-exempt. The ...
The whaler on HMS Sheffield being manned with an armed boarding party to check a neutral vessel stopped at sea, 20 Oct 1941. The Blockade of Germany (1939–1945), also known as the Economic War, involved operations carried out during World War II by the British Empire and by France in order to restrict the supplies of minerals, fuel, metals, food and textiles needed by Nazi Germany – and ...
In November 2008 the History Channel was re-branded as History, [9] The company behind the channel was known as The History Channel (UK) Limited until July 2009, when it was renamed AETN UK (a short form of "A&E Television Networks"). [10] In 2010, History HD became a simulcast service. On 22 September 2011, AETN UK was re-branded A&E Networks ...
The Haunted History of Halloween; Heavy Metal; Heroes Under Fire; Hidden Cities; Hidden House History; High Hitler; High Points in History; Hillbilly: The Real Story; History Alive; History Films; History in Color; History Now; History of Angels [19] A History of Britain; A History of God [20] History of the Joke; The History of Sex; History ...
The History Channel's original logo used from January 1, 1995, to February 15, 2008. In the station's early years, the red background was not there, and later it sometimes appeared blue (in documentaries), light green (in biographies), purple (in sitcoms), yellow (in reality shows), or orange (in short form content) instead of red.
[77] Thus, the Nazi state did not resort to "blunt-instrument forms of coercion" because it did not need to, not because it was unwilling to do so. After 1938, "examples had been made, fear inspired, and the lessons internalized, on both sides of the business-state divide."