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1 Reichsmark Metallwerke Holleischen
| Issuer | Metallwerke Holleischen GmbH |
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| Year | 1941-1945 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress print on yellow cardboard with a serrated border on all four sides. The MWH oval logo vignette appears at left, repeated across the underprint in a craquelure guilloche pattern. The denomination '1 RM' is printed in large bold type at right, with 'Wertmarke' inscribed below in a banner. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is entirely unprinted, presenting a plain yellow cardboard surface with no text, vignette, or security features. |
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Metallwerke Holleischen GmbH was a forced labor munitions factory operating within the Holýšov subcamp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp complex in occupied Czechoslovakia. These scrip notes were issued as internal camp currency — prisoners received them as nominal "payment" for armaments work, redeemable only at the camp canteen for a handful of permitted goods. The system created a paper fiction of wages while ensuring nothing of real value could be accumulated or transferred.
Survivors of Holleischen are documented. The scrip is not rare because it was carefully preserved — it survives because it was largely worthless even on its own terms.