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5 Mark Eutin PoW Camp
| Issuer | Offizier-Gefangenenlager Eutin |
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| Year | 1914-1918 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Black and red letterpress print on a yellow guilloche underprint. The German Imperial flag (black, white, and red vertical stripes) appears as a vignette at left. Black serial numbers printed at upper or lower positions. |
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| Obverse lettering | Offizier-Gefangenenlager Eutin Fünf Mark Lagergeld 5 (Translation: Officers' Prisoner of War Camp Eutin. Five mark. Camp money.) |
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Eutin was a small town in Holstein with no particular financial significance — what put it on the notaphilic map was the establishment of an officer prisoner-of-war camp there during the First World War. Under the Hague Conventions, captured officers could not be compelled to work, so they were paid a nominal allowance by their captors. These internal camp scrips satisfied that obligation without releasing reichsmark currency into prisoners' hands or giving them anything spendable outside the wire.
Officer camp issues like this one are among the scarcer PoW notgeld types precisely because the captive population was small and the notes rarely left the camp economy at all.