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1 Reichsmark Mauthausen Concentration Camp
| Issuer | SS-Verwaltung Konzentrationslager Mauthausen |
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| Year | 1943 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black letterpress on salmon-red paper, the obverse carries the camp designation 'Konzentrationslager Mauthausen' at the top in spaced capitals, below which the large bold legend 'PRÄMIENSCHEIN' dominates the centre. A horizontal ruled-line ornament separates the title from the denomination statement 'WERT: RM 1.—', with the print code 'KL M ½-4-43-' at the lower left; a faint violet administrative handstamp is visible to the left of centre. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is entirely unprinted, consisting of plain salmon-red paper with no text, vignette, or ornamental elements of any kind. |
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Camp scrip issued by the SS administration at Mauthausen served one function: to create a bureaucratic fiction of compensated labor while ensuring prisoners could spend nothing outside the camp's own canteen system. The currency was internal and self-contained by design — any earnings were effectively recycled back to the SS.
Mauthausen was classified as a Grade III camp, the harshest category in the Nazi system, reserved for prisoners deemed "incorrigible" and subject to Vernichtung durch Arbeit — annihilation through labor. The granite quarry at nearby Gusen was central to that policy. That scrip circulated in this specific place is what distinguishes it from the better-documented Dachau or Buchenwald issues.
Red paper distinguished the 1 Reichsmark denomination from lower values in the series.