Scrip valued at 50 pfennig
- Language
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German
- Classification
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Exchange Media
- Category
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Money
- Object Type
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Scrip (aat)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Robert Adelman
Funfzig Pfennig Wertmarke
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Record last modified: 2018-01-11 14:23:40
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Also in Robert Adelman collection
The collection consists of an antisemitic NSDAP poster and to pieces of concentration camp scrip.
Date: 1942
Buchenwald Standort-Kantine concentration camp scrip, 2 Reichsmark
Object
3 Reichsmark coupon in Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. Buchenwald opened on July 19, 1937, and issued undated notes in 0.5, 1, 2, and 3 mark denominations. The simply designed notes were printed on coarse paper. There were two types of coupons: canteen scrip and exchange scrip issued to members of outside labor brigades [Aussenkommandos.] In early April 1945, as US forces approached Buchenwald concentration camp, the German guards began to evacuate the camp. On April 11, the prisoners revolted and seized control of the camp. Later that day, soldiers from the Sixth Army Armored Division, part of the Third Army, arrived in camp and discovered more than 21,000 starved and ill inmates.
Antisemitic NSDAP poster removed from a wall
Object
Removed from wall by Robert Adelman, October 1942, Liepzig, Germany.
