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Broager sits on the Broagerland peninsula in the duchy of Schleswig, and this note was issued in 1919 — the year the region's political future was being decided by plebiscite following Germany's defeat in the First World War. The municipality printed emergency notgeld while the border question remained open; in the Zone 1 vote of February 1920, the area voted overwhelmingly for reunion with Denmark, and Broager was transferred accordingly.
Bentzen signs as Gemeindevorsteher — the municipal chairman — lending the note its formal authority at a moment when that authority itself was provisional.
Broager sits on the Broagerland peninsula in the duchy of Schleswig, and this note was issued in 1919 — the year the region's political future was being decided by plebiscite following Germany's defeat in the First World War. The municipality printed emergency notgeld while the border question remained open; in the Zone 1 vote of February 1920, the area voted overwhelmingly for reunion with Denmark, and Broager was transferred accordingly.
Bentzen signs as Gemeindevorsteher — the municipal chairman — lending the note its formal authority at a moment when that authority itself was provisional.