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3 Reichspfennigs Metallwerke Holleischen
| Issuer | Metallwerke Holleischen GmbH |
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| Year | 1941-1945 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress print on yellow cardboard with a repeating MWH oval logo underprint across the field. The large numeral "3" appears to the right, with "Rpf." alongside, and the word "Wertmarke" below. A decorative dashed border frames the entire note. |
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| Obverse lettering | MWH 3 Rpf. Wertmarke (Translation: Voucher.) |
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Metallwerke Holleischen GmbH was a forced-labor armaments factory operating within the Flossenbürg concentration camp system, located near Holýšov in occupied Czechoslovakia. These Lagergeld tokens — issued in denominations across the series — were not wages in any meaningful sense. They were issued to concentration camp prisoners performing armaments work under the fiction of "compensated labor," a bureaucratic construct the SS used partly to satisfy Reich labor regulations and partly to control prisoner behavior through a canteen system offering items of negligible value.
The notes had no utility outside the camp perimeter. Possession of them by civilians would have been meaningless; possession by prisoners was itself controlled.