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3 Reichsmark Dachau Concentration Camp
| Issuer | Konzentrationslager Dachau (SS Administration) |
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| Year | 1940-1944 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Plain buff paper voucher with all text in letterpress. The camp designation 'Konzentrationslager Dachau' is set at top, below which the denomination 'PRÄMIENSCHEIN' appears in large bold type. A ruled line provides space for the handwritten prisoner number, with the value 'WERT: RM. 3.—' in bold. Expiry and issue details appear at lower left, with a serial number at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Entirely unprinted, showing plain buff paper with natural aging, foxing, and handling marks consistent with wartime camp use. |
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Dachau camp scrip was not money in any functional sense — it was a control mechanism. Prisoners received it as nominal "wages" for forced labor, redeemable only at the camp canteen for heavily restricted goods. The SS administration ensured no real purchasing power existed: supply was deliberately inadequate, prices arbitrary, and access revocable at will. The scrip could not leave the camp and had no value outside the wire.
Campbell 3964 covers the 3 Reichsmark denomination within the broader Dachau Lagergeld series used through the war years. Surviving examples reached the market primarily through liberating Allied soldiers in April 1945.