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1 Heller Katzenau bei Linz; PoW Camp
| Issuer | k. k. Interniertenlager Katzenau bei Linz |
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| Year | 1915-1918 |
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| Currency | Crown (1892-1918) |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 k. k. Interniertenlager Katzenau bei Linz. Ein Heller. Dieser Betrag ist ein Anteilschein des bei der k. k. Lagerleitung deponierten Guthabens des Internierten. Nur gültig für den internen Verkehr im Lager. Stark beschmutzte oder zerrissene Noten werden nicht angenommen. Der k. k. Leiter des Interniertenlagers: Reicher. (Translation: Imperial and Royal Internment Camp Katzenau near Linz. One heller. This amount is a share certificate of the internee's credit deposited with the Imperial and Royal camp management. Only valid for internal traffic within the camp. Heavily soiled or torn notes will not be accepted. The Imperial and Royal Head of the Internment Camp: Reicher.) |
| Reverse description | Plain unprinted pink paper; reverse is entirely blank with no text, vignette, or ornamental elements. |
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Katzenau was one of Austria-Hungary's internment camps for civilian suspects — Russophile Ukrainians, Serbs, and others deemed politically unreliable — not a prisoner-of-war camp in the conventional military sense. The distinction mattered enormously to those held there: internees had no formal combatant status and no protecting power under the Hague Conventions, leaving their treatment entirely at the discretion of camp administration. Mortality at Katzenau was severe, particularly in the early war years from typhus and exposure.
Camp scrip of this kind circulated within a closed internal economy — redeemable at the camp canteen and nowhere else. The single signature, Reicher, almost certainly belongs to the camp commandant or chief administrator authorizing the issue.