best forger of the 20th century

Best in the sense of benefiting humanity for Adolfo Kaminsky as a teen became a french underground master forger saving up to 14000 lives during ww2

60minutes/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/little-known-wwii-hero-tells-his-story...

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on October 29, 2017 at 7:36pm

Excellent, thank you.  If I recall correctly, the book The Great Escape by Paul Brickhill goes into some detail, with entire documents being created from scratch, bearing important rubber stamps made from hand carved boot heels and photographs being developed and embossed to "prove" I identity - an incredible amount of ingenuity. The master forger was Donald Pleasance. James Garner had a lot of fun with the Guard Werner - tricking him/blackmailing him into bringing the camera and photographic papers and more. I think this all started with a bit of chocolate...

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