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5 Pfennigs Holzminden; Officer PoW Camp
| Issuer | Offizier-Gefangenenlager Holzminden |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| In circulation to | Yes |
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| Obverse description | Plain typeset voucher with central text denoting the issuing authority and denomination. Letterpress inscription reads the camp name, value in words, and validity month. Printer's imprint of J.C. König & Ebhardt, Hannover appears in small type at the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | Offizier-Gefangenenlager Holzminden Fünf Pfennig im September 1917 |
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Holzminden was among the most notorious German officer prisoner-of-war camps of the First World War — overcrowded, deliberately punitive in its administration under Hauptmann Karl Niemeyer, and the site of the largest successful tunnel escape by Allied officers in July 1918. This camp scrip predates that escape by roughly a year, issued to give captive officers a controlled means of purchasing from the canteen while preventing any accumulation of Reichsmark currency that might fund an escape attempt.
J. C. König & Ebhardt were a well-established Hannover commercial printer with no particular connection to security printing — their involvement here reflects wartime pragmatism rather than any official banknote production mandate.