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25 Pfennig Kriegs Gefangenen Lager
| Issuer | Kriegsgefangenenlager Lichtenhorst (POW Camp Canteen Administration) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Lichtenhorst 25 Pfennig Kriegs Gefangenen Lager Gutschein über 25 Pfennig Dieser Gutschein gilt nur als Zahlmittel im Lager Die Kantinen Verwaltung |
| Reverse description | Polychrome letterpress vignette covers the entire note face within the characteristic oval-link decorative border, presenting a rural scene identified in the upper right as 'Schäferei Lichtenhorst': a large thatched-roof round barn of timber construction dominates the centre, with a flock of sheep grazing on green pasture before it and birch and conifer trees framing the composition on either side. The palette of warm yellows, greens, and earth tones is consistent with the Notgeld pictorial printing of the period. No denomination or text appears on this side beyond the vignette caption. |
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Lichtenhorst was a German prisoner-of-war camp in Lower Saxony, and like many such installations in both World Wars, it operated an internal canteen currency to prevent prisoners from accumulating Reichsmarks — hard money that could theoretically fund escape attempts or bribery. These camp pfennig notes exist in a legal gray zone: issued by a military administration rather than any banking authority, they were redeemable only within the wire and worthless the moment a prisoner left the camp by any means.
The DeNG reference places this firmly within the documented German necessity and camp money cataloguing tradition. Two known varieties (797.1 and 797.2) suggest at least one reissue or paper change during the camp's operational period.