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1 Pfennig Wildemann; Officer PoW Camp
| Issuer | Offiziergefangenenlager Wildemann |
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| In circulation to | Yes |
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| Obverse lettering | Offiziergefangenenlager Wildemann Nr. 00526 Gut für 1 Pfennig Dieses Lagergeld gilt nur als Zahlungsmittel innerhalb des Lagers. Der Betrag für diesen Gutschein wird bei Entlassung des Gefangenen bar ausgezahlt, bei Überweisung in ein anderes Lager dahin überwiesen. Scheine, bei denen die Nummer ganz oder teilweise fehlt, werden nicht eingelöst |
| Reverse description | Plain unprinted reverse showing bleed-through impression of the obverse text in mirror image, with the dotted border frame visible. No independent design elements are present; the light paper stock renders the obverse lettering faintly legible in reverse. |
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Wildemann is a small mining town in the Harz Mountains, and the officer prisoner-of-war camp established there during the First World War was one of several dozen Offiziergefangenenlager operating across Germany. Officers, under the conventions then observed, were not put to forced labor — which created a peculiar administrative problem: men with time, rank, and sometimes money needed a functioning internal economy. Camp-issue Lagergeld solved that. This note's 1 Pfennig denomination is notably low, suggesting a fairly granular scrip system was in place, possibly to handle canteen transactions down to small fractions of a Mark.