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1 Reichsmark Flossenbürg Concentration Camp
| Issuer | Konzentrationslager Flossenbürg (Waffen-SS) |
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| Year | 1944 |
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| Value | 1 Reichsmark (1 RM) |
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| Obverse description | Plain black letterpress on white paper. The denomination and camp name are printed in bold sans-serif type across the upper portion. Below, a circular Waffen-SS rubber handstamp bears a spread-winged Nazi eagle over a swastika with the inscription "D. St. / Verwaltung" around the circumference. Control designations and print run data appear along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | Completely unprinted reverse on plain paper stock, showing only natural aging and minor surface wear consistent with wartime issue. |
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Flossenbürg was a granite-quarrying camp established in 1938 in the Upper Palatinate, and the Lagergeld issued there in 1944 was part of the broader SS prisoner currency system — a mechanism that created the appearance of wages while ensuring nothing of real value could be obtained or retained. Prisoners in certain categories received these notes as nominal pay, redeemable only at the camp canteen, where goods were either unavailable or deliberately overpriced.
The Waffen-SS administered Flossenbürg's economics directly. Possession of any non-Lagergeld currency by a prisoner was a punishable offense, which made this scrip simultaneously coercive and self-contained. Survival rates at Flossenbürg were among the worst in the Reich's camp network — the quarry work was lethal by design.