Oranienburg Lagergeld Money

Authors

Object ID

2012.1.460

Object Name

Scrip

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Description

Piece of paer money with black background. Includes two illustrations of German officers and Nazi insignia. Titled, "Lagergeld des Konzentrationslagers Oranienburg" and worth 50 pfg.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: A fifty pfennig banknote issued by and used at the German concentration camp, Oranienburg, later commonly called Sachsenhausen. The note measures 5'' x 3 1/2'' and on both sides pictures the German eagle and Swastika device, two armed German soldiers facing center, and a strand of barbed wire. Sachsenhausen was used primarily for political prisoners and was the scene of a huge counterfeiting effort to undermine the British Pound (operation Bernhard).

Dimensions

3 1/2 x 5"

Keywords

Barbed Wire, Currency, Oranienburg, Sachsenhausen, Reich seal, operation Bernhard

Subcollection

Philatelic

Recommended Citation

"Oranienburg Lagergeld Money" (2016). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2012.1.460.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/1176