German Concentration Camp Money 1933-1945 by Hans-ludwig & Grabowski
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The "total" war and the massive use of prisoners as slave labor - especially in the defense industry - reached the use of money substitutes in the camps and ghettos of the Third Reich its peak. Earlier, there had been special cash, but took the so-called premium tickets, which were then used in almost all concentration camps to motivate prisoners from across Europe to higher performance, an outstanding position. The role of money and money substitutes in the camps and ghettos will now be treated for the first time not only in the form of an extensive cataloging. In this volume is the focus of more detailed work on the historical background and facts that can be presented for the first time in this form. As a basis for the long overdue reassessment of this chapter in German history and international currency was the author not only the major contemporary historical collection of the famous Berlin collector and researcher Wolfgang Haney. Together with historical documents from other collections and archives, numerous new findings. Thus a completely new documentation has emerged as a significant component in the system of Nazi terror, which provides surprising insights and shocking snapshots from the recollections of witnesses and the bureaucracy of destruction. As was reached in early 1945 with over 700 000 prisoners in German concentration camps of the peak, the system had already fallen apart. The money of terror remained as a mute witness to this day. Hardcover, 456 pages, published 2008. WRITTEN IN GERMAN.
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