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2 Mark Eutin PoW Camp
| Issuer | Offizier-Gefangenenlager Eutin |
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| Year | 1914-1918 |
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| Value | 2 Mark |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress in black and red with a light blue guilloche underprint; black serial numbers at upper or lower margins. The German Imperial tricolour flag (black, white, and red) appears as a vignette at left. The denomination numeral '2' is printed in red at right. |
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| Obverse lettering | Offizier-Gefangenenlager Eutin Zwei Mark Lagergeld 2 (Translation: Officers' Prisoner of War Camp Eutin. Two mark. Camp money.) |
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Eutin, a small Schleswig-Holstein garrison town, hosted one of the German Empire's officer prisoner-of-war camps during the First World War. Under the 1907 Hague Convention, captured officers were entitled to pay commensurate with their rank — but the German authorities were not about to hand out Reichsmarks freely inside a camp. These internal scrip issues solved that problem: money valid only within the wire, usable at the canteen, and worthless the moment a prisoner escaped or was repatriated.
Officer camps typically generated far fewer surviving scrip examples than enlisted camps, simply because the populations were smaller and turnover slower.