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5 Mark Cottbus; PoW Camp
| Issuer | Inspektion der Kriegsgefangenenlager im Bereich des III. Armeekorps |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | Inspektion der Kriegsgefangenenlager im Bereich des III. Armeekorps. 5 MARK DER INSPEKTEUR. Waldhausen BERLIN DEN 1 OKT 1917. Zahlungsmittel für Kriegsgefangene. DER ADJUTANT. Scheine mit ganz oder teilweise fehlender Nummer können nicht eingelöst werden. (Translation: Inspection of the prisoner of war camps in the area of the III Army Corps. The Inspector, the Adjutant. Berlin, October 1st, 1917. Cash for prisoners of war. Bills with wholly or partly missing numbers cannot be redeemed.) |
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| Reverse lettering | Dieser Gutschein gilt im Bereich des III. Armeekorps als Zahlungsmittel für Kriegsgefangene und wird bei Vorlage gegen kursfähiges Geld eingelöst: 1. bei dem nächsten Arbeitgeber, der Kriegsgefangene aus dem Inspektionsbereich beschäftigt, 2. bei der aufgedruckten Lagerkommandantur, 3. bei allen anderen Lagerkommandanturen des Inspektionsbereichs. Solche befinden sich in Brandenburg a.H., Cottbus, Crossen a.O., Frankfurt a.O., Guben, Havelberg. Briefadresse: Bankabteilung der Lagerkommandantur. Ambrosius & Co. GmbH, Kirchhain N.L. COTTBUS (Translation: This voucher serves as payment for prisoners of war within the area of the III Army Corps and can be redeemed for current currency upon presentation: 1. at the nearest employer employing prisoners of war from the inspection area, 2. at the camp commandant's office printed on the voucher, 3. at any other camp commandant's office within the inspection area. These are located in Brandenburg an der Havel, Cottbus, Crossen an der Oder, Frankfurt an der Oder, Guben, and Havelberg. Mailing address: Bank Department of the Camp Commandant's Office.) |
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Issued by the inspectorate overseeing prisoner-of-war camps in the III Army Corps district, this note was part of a parallel scrip economy designed to prevent PoWs from accumulating Reichsmark currency that could facilitate escape or black-market dealings with local civilians. The Cottbus camp held primarily Russian prisoners in this period, with numbers swelling after the mass surrenders on the Eastern Front in 1915 and 1916.
Ambrosius & Co. in Kirchhain handled a number of similar camp issues — a regional printer pressed into an unusual wartime role. The inspector's signature, Waldhausen, appears consistently across this series; his adjutant countersigns but was never formally documented in camp records that have survived.