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5 Reichspfennigs Metallwerke Holleischen
| Issuer | Metallwerke Holleischen GmbH |
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| Year | 1941-1945 |
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| Value | 5 Reichspfennigs (0.05 RM) |
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| Obverse description | Dark brown letterpress print on orange-red cardboard. A repeating MWH oval logo underprint covers the field within a toothed-border frame. The denomination numeral '5' and 'Rpf.' appear in large bold type at right, with the MWH oval vignette at left and the inscription 'Wertmarke' along the lower portion. |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted orange-red cardboard, completely blank on all surfaces. |
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Metallwerke Holleischen GmbH was a munitions factory in Holýšov, occupied Czechoslovakia, operating under SS administration and staffed largely by forced labor — predominantly Jewish women transferred from concentration camps. This note is camp money in the strictest sense: scrip issued not to a civilian workforce but to prisoners whose "wages" could only be spent within a controlled internal economy, creating the bureaucratic fiction of compensation while preventing any real economic agency.
The Holleischen scrip series is documented but not common. The factory was evacuated in a death march westward in April 1945 as American forces advanced.