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10 Pfennigs Wildemann; Officer PoW Camp
| Issuer | Offiziergefangenenlager Wildemann |
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| Year | 1914-1918 |
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| Currency | Papiermark (1914-1923) |
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| Obverse lettering | OFFIZIERGEFANGENENLAGER WILDEMANN GUT FÜR ZEHN PFENNIGE 10 Dieses Lagergeld gilt nur als Zahlungsmittel innerhalb des Lagers. Der Betrag für diesen Gutschein wird bei Entlassung des Gefangenen bar ausgezahlt, bei Uberweisung in ein anderes Lager dahin über-wiesen. Scheine, bei denen die Nummer ganz oder teilweise fehlt, werden nicht eingelöst (Translation: Officer prisoner of war camp Wildemann. Good for ten pfennigs. This camp money is valid only as a means of payment within the camp. The amount for this voucher will be paid out in cash upon the prisoner's release, or transferred upon transfer to another camp. Notes on which the number is completely or partially missing will not be redeemed.) |
| Reverse description | Reverse is entirely unprinted, showing plain aged cream paper with no text, vignette, or ornamental elements. |
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Wildemann, a small mining town in the Harz Mountains, hosted one of the German Empire's officer prisoner-of-war camps during the First World War. Under the 1907 Hague Convention, officer prisoners could not be compelled to work, which left camp administrations with the practical problem of facilitating daily purchases — canteen goods, tobacco, small luxuries — without allowing hard currency to circulate freely or be accumulated for escape funds. Localized camp scrip was the solution adopted across dozens of German PoW installations.
Notes from Wildemann survive in small numbers, almost entirely uncirculated in the technical sense — the camps closed abruptly in late 1918 and unspent scrip became immediately worthless.