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10 Mark Brandenburg an der Havel; PoW Camp
| Issuer | Inspektion der Kriegsgefangenenlager im Bereich des III. Armeekorps |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Currency | Mark (1873-1923) |
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| Obverse lettering | Inspektion der Kriegsgefangenenlager im Bereich des III. Armeekorps. 10 MARK DER INSPEKTEUR. Waldhausen BERLIN DEN 1. OKT 1917. Zahlungsmittel für Kriegsgefangene. DER ADJUTANT. Scheine mit ganz oder teilweise fehlender Nummer können nicht eingelöst werden. (Translation: Inspection of the prisoner of war camps in the area of the III Army Corps. The inspector, the adjutant. Berlin, October 1st, 1917. Cash for prisoners of war. Bills with wholly or partly missing serial numbers cannot be redeemed.) |
| Reverse description | Black text on an ivory oval panel set within an elaborate orange ornamental frame of acanthus scrollwork, with corner medallions. The text body sets out the redemption conditions for the voucher in three numbered clauses, listing the camp commandant offices at Brandenburg a.H., Cottbus, Crossen a.O., Frankfurt a.O., Guben, and Havelberg. A large green overprint reading 'BORDELL' is applied diagonally across the centre of the note. The printer's imprint appears at the base. |
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Issued by the Inspection of Prisoner of War Camps under the III Army Corps command, this note circulated exclusively within the camp system around Brandenburg an der Havel — a deliberately closed monetary circuit intended to prevent prisoners from accumulating Reichsmark currency usable outside the wire. The III Army Corps was headquartered in Berlin, giving it administrative oversight of a substantial network of camps in the Brandenburg region during the war's middle years.
Ambrosius & Co. in Kirchhain, Niederlausitz printed a range of these Lagergeld issues for different camp inspectorates. The 10 Mark denomination was the highest in many such series — large enough to discourage casual forgery attempts, since a prisoner caught counterfeiting faced severe consequences under military law.