Private Schulz — Season 1, Episode 5: Part Five
Crime, Comedy, Drama, War & Politics • 50 min • 1 season, 6 episodes • ★ 5.3/10
Episode synopsis
Late 1944, war is going poorly for Germany: the forging operation is moved by Neuheim to the same labour camp Schulz is serving at. He maneuvers to once again be posted to act as Neuheim's clerk. As a last-ditch effort, Neuheim puts Schulz in charge of taking the forged money and equipment to the Alps for safety. With the other forgers' help, Schulz dumps everything in a lake, but is caught by an American patrol. Now penniless in late 1945, he is located by Neuheim and forced to retrieve the money.
About Private Schulz
Private Schulz is a six-part 1981 television comedy-drama serial written by Jack Pulman and produced for BBC Two. It stars Michael Elphick in the title role, with Ian Richardson, Tony Caunter, Billie Whitelaw, Billy Murray, and Mark Wingett. Set primarily in Germany, during and immediately following World War II, fraudster and petty criminal Gerhard Schulz is forced to serve in the SS. In a story based on the real, though unrealised, plot by the Germans known as Operation Bernhard, Schulz tricks the Nazis into making counterfeit British £5 notes, millions of which will be used to destroy the British economy.