1 Pfennig Lechfeld; PoW Camp

Lechfeld was a German Imperial Army airfield and training base in Bavaria, repurposed early in the war to hold prisoners — primarily French and Russian — as the volume of captives overwhelmed established facilities. Camp scrip of this kind was a practical response to a genuine administrative problem: Reich currency could not be permitted to circulate among prisoners who might use it to bribe guards or fund escapes, so purpose-issued Lagergeld replaced it entirely within the wire.

Himmer in Augsburg was a regional commercial printer with no particular specialization in security documents, which shows. These notes were not designed to resist counterfeiting — they were designed to be cheap and fast.