Catalog
25 Cents Herzogenbusch; PoW Camp
| Issuer | Konzentrationslager Herzogenbusch |
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| Year | 1943 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress print on a red repetitive-text underprint reading '25 - Fünf und Zwanzig Cts.' across the entire field. The note is framed by a decorative black border of interlocking scroll ornaments. A central boxed vignette displays the large numeral '25' with 'Fünf und zwanzig cts.' below, flanked by 'Serie A' to the left and a serial number to the right. |
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| Reverse description | Black letterpress print on a red floral-pattern underprint composed of repeating four-petal rosette motifs across the entire field. A decorative scroll-work border frames the note. The denomination '25 cents' appears in large bold type at the top, above three lines of German regulatory text and the date and issuing authority at the foot. |
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Herzogenbusch — known to its Dutch-speaking population as Kamp Vught — was the only SS-administered concentration camp built and operated on Dutch soil. This 25-cent scrip was part of the internal camp currency system imposed there from 1943, a mechanism used across the Nazi camp network to create the administrative fiction of a wage economy while extracting inmate labor without meaningful compensation.
The scrip had no value outside the wire and could only be exchanged at the camp canteen for a narrow range of permitted goods. Survival rates at Vught were low; relatively few inmates lived to carry anything out.