and director Stefan Ruzowitzky adapted the book as the screenplay for his Austrian-German co-production The Counterfeiters that received a foreign-language Oscar in 2008. Burger checked every draft of the screenplay. Adolf Burger is played by the German actor August Diehl. He is one of only two prisoner characters in the film that has an authentic historical name and is not synthesized from several real-life prisoners involved in Operation Bernhard (the other is the opera singer, Isaak Plappler who also was still living when the film was made). Bibliography In Czech: 1945, written by Sylva and Oskar Krejčí, Číslo 64401 mluví. Prague. 1983, Komando padělatelů. Prague. (translated into English as The Devil's Workshop: A Memoir of the Nazi Counterfeiting Operation. London: Frontline Books, 2009) 1991, Ďáblova dílna: V padělatelském komandu koncentračního tábora Sachsenhausen. Prague. References 1917 births 2016 deaths People from Kežmarok District Slovak Jews Jewish Czech writers People condemned by Nazi courts Sachsenhausen concentration camp survivors Auschwitz concentration camp survivors Czechoslovak communists Czechoslovak journalists Czechoslovak writers Czechoslovak Jews Czech people of Slovak descent Mauthausen concentration camp survivors