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10 Reichspfennig Lagergeld
| Issuer | Oberkommando der Wehrmacht |
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| Year | 1939-1944 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Grey paper with a large red triangle underprint at centre-left, upon which the Reichsadler perched atop a swastika is printed in black at lower left. The denomination and regulatory text are set in Gothic blackletter typeface, with a dotted border framing the entire note. |
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| Obverse lettering | Kriegsgefangenen=Lagergeld Gutschein über 10 Reichspfennig Dieser Gutschein gilt nur als Zahlungsmittel für Kriegsgefangene und darf von ihnen nur innerhalb der Kriegsgefangenenlager oder bei Arbeitskommandos in den ausdrücklich hierfür bezeichneten Verkaufstellen verausgabt und entgegengenommen werden. Der Umtausch dieses Gutscheins in gesetzliche Zahlungsmittel darf nur bei der zuständigen Kasse der Lagerverwaltung erfolgen. Zuwiderhandlungen, Nachahmungen und Fälschungen werden bestraft Der Chef des Oberkommandos der Wehrmacht Im Auftrag: |
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Lagergeld — camp money — was issued by the Wehrmacht high command to control prisoner purchasing power within Stalags and Oflags. These notes could only be spent at camp canteens, and the system was designed as much to prevent prisoners from accumulating currency useful for escape as to facilitate any genuine commerce. The Geneva Convention of 1929 technically required that POWs be paid and allowed to make purchases; the Lagergeld system satisfied that obligation on paper while keeping real money out of enemy hands.
This denomination circulated alongside 1, 5, 50 Reichspfennig and 1 and 2 Reichsmark values across the same series. Surviving examples are common — the notes were printed in quantity and many were retained as souvenirs by liberated prisoners after 1945.