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10 Mark Oflag II-C
| Issuer | Kasa Samopomocy Obozu Oflag II-C (POW Camp Mutual Aid Fund, Oflag II-C) |
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| Year | 1944 |
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| Currency | Reichsmark (1939-1944) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in deep rose-brown on cream paper using a woodcut-style letterpress technique. The central panel carries the denomination text and camp authority inscriptions, flanked left and right by large numeral '10' roundels set within geometric cross-hatched and interlaced decorative frames. A border of interlocking ornamental motifs runs along all four edges. |
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| Obverse lettering | KASA SAMOPOMOCY OB. OF. II C BON NA 10 MAREK WAŻNY TYLKO NA TERENIE OBOZU II C ROZKAZ NAJST. OBOZU NR 321 Z DNIA 30-X-44 SERIA A NAJSTARSZY OBOZU KIEROWNIK KASY |
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Oflag II-C was a German prisoner-of-war camp at Woldenberg, holding Polish officers captured largely in the September 1939 campaign. The camp's internal mutual aid fund issued its own scrip to allow a semblance of economic life within the wire — notes produced by the prisoners themselves, on whatever materials were available, authenticated by handstamp rather than any printing-house security apparatus.
The 1944 date places this note late in the camp's operational life, roughly a year before the Red Army's advance forced the Germans to evacuate the prisoners westward in January 1945 on foot, in winter.