1 Pfennig Wildemann; Officer PoW Camp

Wildemann is a small mining town in the Harz Mountains, and the officer prisoner-of-war camp established there during the First World War was one of several dozen Offiziergefangenenlager operating across Germany. Officers, under the conventions then observed, were not put to forced labor — which created a peculiar administrative problem: men with time, rank, and sometimes money needed a functioning internal economy. Camp-issue Lagergeld solved that. This note's 1 Pfennig denomination is notably low, suggesting a fairly granular scrip system was in place, possibly to handle canteen transactions down to small fractions of a Mark.