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5 Mark Offizier-Gefangenenlager
| Issuer | Offizier-Gefangenenlager Eutin |
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| Size | 100 × 61 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | Offizier-Gefangenenlager Eutin Fünf Mark Lagergeld Nr. |
| Reverse description | The reverse repeats the cream guilloche underprint and the black-white-red vertical stripe along the left margin. The field is occupied entirely by a block of Gothic Fraktur text setting out the conditions of use for the camp currency, stating that the Lagergeld is valid only within the camp and must be exchanged for cash or credited to the bearer's account upon departure; civilians and German military personnel are explicitly excluded from cash redemption, with exceptions requiring prior consent of the camp commandant. Red numerals "5" appear in the upper right and lower right corners. |
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Offizier-Gefangenenlager Eutin was a World War One officer prisoner-of-war camp in Schleswig-Holstein. Like most German POW camps of the period, it issued its own scrip to control internal commerce — denying prisoners access to Reichsmark currency that could theoretically fund escape attempts or black-market dealings with locals.
Camp scrip at the officer level was often a cut above the crude stamps used in enlisted camps, reflecting the conventions around officer treatment under the 1907 Hague Regulations. Eutin's issues remain poorly documented in the broader Lagergeld literature, and confirmed examples are genuinely scarce.