Catalog
0.01 Reichsmark Mittelbau Concentration Camp
| Issuer | SS-Zentralverwaltung Mittelbau (Arbeitslager Mittelbau) |
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| Year | 1943-1945 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Reverse description | Plain paper ground with dark gray letterpress text in four lines occupying the upper portion, stating the guarantee clause of the voucher and referencing the SS-Kantinen central administration at Mittelbau. A six-digit serial number prefixed by an asterisk (*) is printed in bold type at the lower center. |
| Reverse lettering | Die Deckung für diese Wertmarke ist bei der Zentralverwaltung der SS-Kantinen im Standortbereich Mittelbau hinterlegt. Fäl- schungen werden strafrechtlich geahndet. (Translation: The coverage for this token is deposited with the central administration of the SS-Canteens in the Mittelbau garrison area. Counterfeiting will be prosecuted under criminal law.) |
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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.