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20 Mark Offizier-Gefangenenlager
| Issuer | Offizier-Gefangenenlager Eutin (Officer Prisoner of War Camp, Eutin) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Offizier-Gefangenenlager Eutin Zwanzig Mark Lagergeld Nr. |
| Reverse description | The reverse repeats the same light green geometric guilloche underprint with the identical vertical black and red left border stripe. The entire field is occupied by a block of Gothic blackletter text setting out the conditions of validity of the Lagergeld, with the word "nicht" underlined for emphasis. The numeral "20" in red appears twice, at upper right and lower right corners. |
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Eutin, a small town in Holstein, hosted one of the German officer POW camps during the First World War. Camp scrip of this type was issued as a controlled internal currency — officers were not required to perform labour and typically received pay according to their rank under the Hague Conventions, but that pay needed to circulate within the camp rather than feed the external economy.
The Eutin issues are among the less-documented of the German Lagergelд series. Verification of surviving specimens is difficult precisely because camp authorities rarely maintained systematic records of print runs or denominations issued.