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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.
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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]