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0.01 Reichsmark Mittelbau Concentration Camp
| Issuer | SS-Zentralverwaltung Mittelbau (Arbeitslager Mittelbau) |
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| Year | 1943-1945 |
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| Reference(s) | Camb#4021 |
| Obverse description | Dark gray letterpress print on plain paper. The center bears the camp designation "ARBEITSLAGER MITTELBAU" in bold uppercase type, with the legend "WERTMARKE RM 0.01.-" and the denomination value "0.01" enclosed within a circle at the lower right. Series letter "N" appears at the upper right. |
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| Obverse lettering | SERIE N ARBEITSLAGER MITTELBAU WERTMARKE RM 0.01.- |
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The Mittelbau camp complex, centered on the underground V-2 rocket production facility at Dora, used its own internal scrip to control prisoner purchasing at the canteen — a cynical mechanism that allowed the SS to extract further labor from the few prisoners granted marginal cash privileges. The system had no economic logic for the prisoner; spending opportunities were almost nonexistent and the scrip was worthless outside the wire.
Mittelbau was not established as an independent concentration camp until late 1944, having operated as a satellite of Buchenwald. The scrip's date range reflects that administrative ambiguity.