25 Fenigow Oflag II-C

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.