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1 Reichspfennig Lagergeld
| Issuer | Oberkommando der Wehrmacht |
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| Year | 1939-1944 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse lettering | Kriegsgefangenen=Lagergeld Gutschein über 1 Reichspfennig Dieser Gutschein gilt nur als Zahlungsmittel für Kriegsgefangene und darf von ihnen nur innerhalb der Kriegsgefangenenlager oder bei Arbeitskommandos in den ausdrücklich hierfür bezeichneten Verkaufstellen verausgabt und entgegengenommen werden. Der Umtausch dieses Gutscheins in gesetzliche Zahlungsmittel darf nur bei der zuständigen Kasse der Lagerverwaltung erfolgen. Zuwiderhandlungen, Nachahmungen und Fälschungen werden bestraft Der Chef des Oberkommandos der Wehrmacht Im Auftrag: |
| Reverse description | Uniface; the reverse is plain unprinted grey paper with no text, vignettes, or decorative elements. |
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Lagergeld — camp money — was issued by the OKW to control purchasing power within prisoner-of-war camps, a system the Wehrmacht used to technically comply with Article 24 of the 1929 Geneva Convention requiring that POWs be paid for their labor. The scrip was non-convertible and accepted only at camp canteens, meaning the real value to a prisoner depended almost entirely on what those canteens actually stocked, which varied enormously and deteriorated sharply after 1942.
The 1 Reichspfennig denomination is the lowest in the OKW Lagergeld series, and surviving examples are disproportionately common — small denominations circulated heavily and were rarely worth hoarding or smuggling out. Higher denominations tell a different survival story.