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1 Pfennig Stendal; PoW Camp
| Issuer | Mannschaftsgefangenenlager Stendal |
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| Year | 1916 |
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| Reference(s) | Camb#3499 |
| Obverse description | Brown letterpress on cream paper with a simple outer border. The camp name 'Mannschaftsgefangenenlager Stendal' is printed at top, flanked by two octagonal denomination cartouches reading '1 Pfg.' on either side of a central panel bearing 'EIN PFENNIG'. The date 'Stendal, den 1. Januar 1916' and commandant's manuscript signature appear below, with a three-line legal disclaimer text at foot. Serial number in vertical orientation at right margin. |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted cream paper, blank on both sides. A faint blind emboss impression from the obverse text is visible as a ghost image, with no additional design elements or inscriptions. |
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Mannschaftsgefangenenlager Stendal was an enlisted men's prisoner-of-war camp in the Altmark region — "Mannschaft" specifically excluding officer prisoners, who were held under different conditions and separate administrative arrangements. Internal camp scrip of this type was a deliberate German military policy, not a local improvisation: by restricting prisoners to non-negotiable internal currency, authorities prevented contact with the external German economy and made escape financially pointless.
The 1916 date places this squarely in the period of maximum POW population pressure on German facilities, following the mass captures on the Eastern Front. Paper issues at this denomination were the lowest-value practical unit — essentially canteen change.