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1 Fenigow Oflag VII-A
| Issuer | Oflag VII-A Murnau (Polish POW Camp Canteen) |
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| Year | 1944 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Primitive letterpress print in red on buff card stock. The denomination numeral "1" appears large at upper right, with the voucher inscription "BON" at upper left and "FEN." below the numeral. A circular validation stamp of the Komisja Rewizji (revision commission) is impressed at centre-left, with horizontal line underprint across the lower third. |
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| Protection description | Circular rubber stamp of the camp revision commission applied in red ink to both obverse and reverse as an authentication control |
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Oflag VII-A at Murnau held Polish officer prisoners from the 1939 campaign and, later, survivors of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising. Camp canteen scrip like this 1 Fenig note was a practical necessity — the Geneva Convention permitted POW officers to receive pay, and internal currency prevented that money from being used to bribe guards or fund escapes. The Germans approved it; the Poles printed it themselves.
The validation stamp is the only meaningful security feature, applied to authorize individual notes rather than authenticate a print run. Unsigned or unstamped examples exist and were considered void within the camp economy.