Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Occupation currency, valued at 2 kroner, issued in Denmark by the German occupation regime in 1942. Denmark was occupied by Germany from April 9, 1940, to May 5, 1945.
- Date
-
issue:
1942
- Geography
-
issue:
Denmark
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Niels Bach
- Markings
- front, center, brown ink : fœdrelandet / for danmarks Ӕre•frihed•og•ret
front lower center, right and left, brown ink : 2 illegible signatures
front center left, serial number, black ink: no. 32008
front center right, series number, black ink : serie a 1942
Physical Details
- Language
- Danish
- Classification
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Exchange Media
- Category
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Money
- Object Type
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Occupation currency (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- Rectangular paper currency. On recto, a white background with a decorative border with the numerical denomination 2 in center left and right medallions. The central image has a swastika, a man with a shovel, behind him, a man with a wheelbarrow; the background has a field and trees under a green sky. There is a sailing vessel at the bottom. On verso, a green background with a decorative motif in black consisting of 9 medallions arranged in a diamond pattern. Two of the medallions represent the denomination; 7 are of various insignia, chiefly Nazi party symbols.
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 3.560 inches (9.042 cm) | Width: 5.000 inches (12.7 cm)
- Materials
- overall : paper, ink
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- World War, 1939-1945--Economic aspects--Denmark.
- Geographic Name
- Denmark--History--German occupation, 1940-1945.
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The occupation currency was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2008 by Niels Bach.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 18:26:06
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn35639
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Contains a postcard sent from Vienna in 1938 with image of poster “Der Ewige Jude”; a postcard with caricature of Kurt Schuschnigg, Jews, clergy running away from new regime; a postcard with the stamp depicting Winston Churchill and captioned ”Not worth a penny”; a letter written by a Jewish prisoner in Sachsenhausen to his family, dated November 3, 1940; a letter written by a prisoner in Dachau concentration camp to his family in Oppeln; and a letter written by German authorities in Brno to Jan Lustig warning him that his account will be confiscated if he doesn’t present himself, on the other side the pencil notation reads (in translation) "all the Jews left in the unknown direction," dated February 18, 1944.
