Buchenwald Aussenkommando scrip for SS Ko. Rottleberode, -.50 Reichsmark

The scrip was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1992 by Sidney Peerless. 

Buchenwald Aussenkommando scrip for SS Ko. Rottleberode, -.50 Reichsmark 

overall: Height: 3.000 inches (7.62 cm) | Width: 4.125 inches (10.478 cm) 

.50 Reichsmark Buchenwald Aussenkommando [Outside Command] coupon for SS Ko. Rottleberode 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 theThird Army, arrived in camp and discovered more than 21,000 starved and ill inmates. 

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Rectangular, discolored, light brown paper coupon with a pale green floral patterned rectangle with scalloped edges and a narrow unprinted border printed on the front. There is German text printed in the top left corner and diagonally across the center. The serial number 6340 is in the lower center and the denomination -.50 is in the lower right. An SS camp name is stamped in purple ink diagonally right of center. The reverse is blank. front, right, stamped, purple ink : Ko.Rottleberode A-5