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5 Reichsmark Reichskreditkassenschein
| Issuer | Reichskreditkassen (Reich Credit Banks) |
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| Year | 1940-1945 |
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| Size | 124 × 70 mm |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
| Protection description | The note is printed on watermarked paper |
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The Reichskreditkassen were not conventional banks but military financial instruments — field institutions established specifically to issue occupation currency in territories seized by Wehrmacht forces. This 5 Reichsmark note circulated not in Germany itself but in occupied countries, where it was imposed at exchange rates that systematically extracted wealth from local economies. France, the Low Countries, Greece, the Eastern territories — the specific theatre of use for any given note is rarely recoverable from the physical object alone.
The series ran across the entire war, and late-issue examples often show the paper and printing degradation consistent with wartime supply shortages in German state printing operations after 1942.