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1000 Reichsmark Bond
| Issuer | Reichsschuldenverwaltung (Reich Debt Administration) |
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| Year | 1936 |
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| Size | 297 x 210 mm |
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| Obverse description | Treasury bond printed on yellow paper with an ornate guilloche underprint and decorative pink border frame. The denomination 1000 Reichsmark appears in large letterpress text near the top, with extensive legal text below; the Reichsschuldenverwaltung stamp appears at lower left. A cancellation punch hole is present. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse printed on plain cream-white paper with the obverse text visible as a bleed-through. No design elements, inscriptions, or vignettes are present on the reverse. |
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The Reichsschuldenverwaltung issued these 1,000 Reichsmark bonds as part of the Third Reich's massive deficit financing apparatus — by 1936, rearmament spending had already pushed Germany well beyond what tax revenue could cover, and the regime was generating debt instruments at a rate that its own finance ministry privately considered unsustainable. These were not retail savings products aimed at ordinary Germans; they were wholesale debt instruments placed through the banking system to absorb liquidity and fund the accelerating military buildup under the Four Year Plan announced that same year.
Printed in Berlin at A4 format — government-standard for Reich administrative paper — with a watermark as the sole security feature, which is modest for the denomination.