F07_P11: Mittelbau Concentration Camp, D
c.1943, Front side - Scrip worth 5.- RM from Mittelbau concentration camp.
Tan paper with printed text and outline in blue ink. The text at the center reads, "ARBEITSLAGER / MITTELBAU" and "WERTMARKE / RM / 5.-". The scrip displays a double border and design elements with a circle and zig-zag at the center.
Name/Title
F07_P11: Mittelbau Concentration Camp, DScope and Content
c.1943, scrip worth 5.- RM from Mittelbau concentration camp.Context
A work camp (Arbeit = work. Lager = Camp). A sub-camp of Nordhausen Concentration camp, Germany Reverse side: In an attempt to legitimize the money, there is a strong warning against counterfeiting this money. Known as Conversion Fund For German Foreign Debts (Konversionskasse Für Deutsche). Promissory notes issued to refugees from Germany during 1933-1935 in place of regular German currency that Jews were not permitted to take out of the country. At all times when Jewish refugees were paid for their confiscated properties it was with these notes. They were not legal tender nor transferable. It was sometimes possible to convert them at half their face value by selling them to the German Golddiskontbank. Eventually the owner found them to be worthless.Collection
Dora-Mittelbau Concentration CampCategory
Currency