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50 Pfennig Brandenburg an der Havel; PoW Camp
| Issuer | Inspektion der Kriegsgefangenenlager im Bereich des III. Armeekorps |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | Inspektion der Kriegsgefangenenlager im Bereich des III. Armeekorps. 50 Pfennig DER INSPEKTEUR. Waldhausen BERLIN DEN 1 OKT 1917. Zahlungsmittel für Kriegsgefangene. DER ADJUTANT. Scheine mit ganz oder teilweise fehlender Nummer können nicht eingelöst werden. (Translation: Inspection of the prisoner of war camps in the area of the III Army Corps. The inspector, the adjutant. Berlin, October 1st, 1917. Cash for prisoners of war. Bills with wholly or partly missing serial numbers cannot be redeemed.) |
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| Signature(s) | Waldhausen (Inspekteur) and unidentified Adjutant |
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Brandenburg an der Havel held one of the larger prisoner-of-war camp complexes administered under the III. Armeekorps inspection authority, and the internal scrip issued there was a deliberate policy instrument — prisoners could be paid for labor under the Hague Convention but could not be permitted to accumulate Reichsmark currency that might fund an escape. These 50-Pfennig notes circulated only within the camp economy, redeemable at the canteen for goods but worthless outside the wire.
Ambrosius & Co. in Kirchhain printed a number of similar camp issues for the same inspectorate, which accounts for the family resemblance across denominations. The Waldhausen signature identifies the Inspekteur; the adjutant countersignature was added by hand and varies across surviving examples.