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1 Reichspfennig Metallwerke Holleischen
| Issuer | Metallwerke Holleischen |
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| Year | 1941-1945 |
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| Currency | Reichsmark (1924-1948) |
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| Obverse description | Grey-toned voucher with a perforated border enclosing a fine guilloche underprint of repeated MWH oval cartouches. The MWH logo device appears at upper left, with the bold numeral '1' and denomination 'Rpf.' to the right, and the word 'Wertmarke' (value token) printed below in spaced letterpress. |
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| Obverse lettering | MWH 1 Rpf. Wertmarke |
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Metallwerke Holleischen was a forced labor armaments factory operating within the Flossenbürg concentration camp system in occupied Czechoslovakia. The Lagergelds issued there — of which this is the lowest denomination — were not wages in any meaningful sense. They were a bureaucratic fiction, a tool for controlling what prisoners could nominally "purchase" within the camp economy while the SS extracted the actual labor value from the Reich's war contractors.
The Holleischen scrip series is among the better-documented camp currency types, partly because several examples survived in the hands of liberating Allied soldiers in May 1945.