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5 Mark Liga zum Schutze der Deutschen Kultur
| Issuer | Liga zum Schutze der Deutschen Kultur, Landesgruppe Sachsen |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | FÜNF MARK SPENDE FÜR DIE LIGA ZUM SCHUTZE DER DEUTSCHEN KULTUR LANDESGRUPPE SACHSEN 1921 |
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| Reverse lettering | DER SCHRECKLICHSTE DER SCHRECKEN DAS IST DER MENSCH IN SEINEM WAHN 5 MARK (Translation: The most terrible of horrors is man in his madness) |
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The Liga zum Schutze der Deutschen Kultur — League for the Protection of German Culture — was one of several nationalist cultural associations that emerged in the turbulent early Weimar years, producing their own notgeld as both a fundraising mechanism and a statement of political identity. Sachsen was a particular hotbed of this activity in 1921, with regional groups issuing scrip that circulated locally while the national currency hemorrhaged purchasing power.
Ratsdruckerei R. Dulce in Glauchau was a municipal print operation, an unusual choice for a private association's emergency currency. Designer M. Eschle is otherwise obscure in the notgeld record.