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25 Fenigow Oflag II-C
| Issuer | Oflag II-C Woldenberg (Polish POW Camp Canteen) |
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| Year | 1943 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Dark letterpress print on cream paper within a ruled rectangular border. A central oval vignette contains a sailing vessel; flanking heraldic shields appear left and right, each set against hatched column ornaments. The denomination numeral 25 is printed in large figures at lower centre. |
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| Reverse description | Plain reverse showing a light blue-grey offset ghost impression of the obverse design printed in reverse, with no additional text or vignette. The cream paper ground is clearly visible around the bleed of the impression. |
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Oflag II-C at Woldenberg (now Dobiegniew, Poland) held Polish officers captured during the September 1939 campaign. The camp's internal scrip was an organised necessity — German authorities permitted canteen currency as a way to control what prisoners could acquire, limiting access to goods that might aid escape. The 25 Fenigow denomination sat at the bottom of the canteen hierarchy, useful for small purchases of tobacco or soap.
These notes were produced within the camp itself, by prisoners, under obviously constrained conditions. Very few survived the war — most were destroyed or discarded upon liberation in early 1945.