Operation Góral
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Operation Góral (Polish: Akcja Góral) was an action carried out by the Polish anti-Nazi resistance organization Home Army (Armia Krajowa, or "AK"), which involved a heist of over a million US dollars' worth of currency being transported by Nazi German authorities on 12 August 1943. It was carried out in the center of Warsaw by a unit of Kedyw, "Motor", which seized a transport car carrying the money. It was one of the best organized actions of the Polish underground during the German occupation, and it took only two minutes.
The name of the action comes from the "Góral", the popular name for the 500 zloty note (which were also known as "Młynarki").[1] Polish historian Tomasz Strzembosz called this operation one of the most successful resistance operations in occupied Europe.[2]