WI Hitler had bombed the UK and France-with forged money?

King Thomas

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I once saw a program about how prisoners in one of Hitler's concentration camps were forced to forge pounds and dollars. The Nazis in OTL thought of dropping them over the UK during WW2, but used them to buy supplies instead.

What if the forging money had started before the war began, and a day or two before Poland was invaded and WW2 began, German bombers had flown over the UK and France by night, and dropped, not bombs, but forged banknotes by the ton?
 
I once saw a program about how prisoners in one of Hitler's concentration camps were forced to forge pounds and dollars. The Nazis in OTL thought of dropping them over the UK during WW2, but used them to buy supplies instead.

What if the forging money had started before the war began, and a day or two before Poland was invaded and WW2 began, German bombers had flown over the UK and France by night, and dropped, not bombs, but forged banknotes by the ton?

For a starters, they wouldn't have been flying over the UK, they didn't have the range. Even if they did, or waited until after the fall of France, the effect wouldn't have been as great as you might have thought. With rationing in effect for all staple items, but with an initially high ration set due to good supplies, there would be only a small scale black market where the forged notes would be of use.
 
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