10 Mark Oflag II-C

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.