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2 Mark Wildemann PoW Camp
| Issuer | Offizier-Gefangenenlager Wildemann |
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| Year | 1914-1918 |
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| Value | 2 Mark |
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| Reverse description | Plain blue cloth reverse, entirely without printed design. A violet handstamp reading "Geprüft" (Checked) is applied at centre, accompanied by a manuscript signature below. |
| Reverse lettering | Geprüft (Translation: Checked.) |
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Wildemann, in the Harz Mountains of Lower Saxony, housed Allied officers during the First World War — a distinction that mattered under the Hague Conventions, since officer prisoners were entitled to receive pay and required a means of spending it without handling Reichsmarks. The cloth token currencies issued by such camps were a direct administrative response to that obligation, keeping purchasing power confined within the wire.
Blue cloth as a substrate is genuinely uncommon. Most German PoW camp issues used cardboard, paper, or stamped metal. The textile medium here likely reflects a local improvisation — whatever material was available to the camp administration in 1914 or shortly after.