War Related Issues
Lot 4941 War Related Issues
Estimate $2,500
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SOLD $2,250
GERMANY-POLAND, Auschwitz Concentration camp, one mark premium note, red, issued 1944, with additional hand overstamp of Waffen SS (Campbell No. 4190a, Stahl, No.100, [p.61]). Some marks, otherwise very fine and very rare.
This Auschwitz note issued by this, the most infamous of Nazi death camps, had only a total issue of 500,000 notes. These and the fifty pfennig notes were issued to only a select few in the camp and mostly to non-Jews. The notes were issued as a reward for very hard work as for 'digging a ditch under a road for a new water pipe' (Stahl p.58). They had a high buying power as it could buy 6 cigarettes or 6 portions of soap. The notes were also used at Birkenau woman's prison close to Auschwitz and distributed to those diligent workers at that camp.
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