3 Reichspfennigs Metallwerke Holleischen

Metallwerke Holleischen GmbH was a forced-labor armaments factory operating within the Flossenbürg concentration camp system, located near Holýšov in occupied Czechoslovakia. These Lagergeld tokens — issued in denominations across the series — were not wages in any meaningful sense. They were issued to concentration camp prisoners performing armaments work under the fiction of "compensated labor," a bureaucratic construct the SS used partly to satisfy Reich labor regulations and partly to control prisoner behavior through a canteen system offering items of negligible value.

The notes had no utility outside the camp perimeter. Possession of them by civilians would have been meaningless; possession by prisoners was itself controlled.