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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 1477192, member: 39&quot;]Those 200 and 500 M notes (dated 1985, never issued) were brought to a tunnel system near Halberstadt, ST where they were supposed to rot and decompose, along with all the other DDR Mark notes. Those tunnels, mostly built in the last phase of WW2 by concentration camp prisoners, had later been used for storage purposes by the GDR forces.</p><p><br /></p><p>In 1999 two men from Halberstadt managed to get into the tunnel and steal quite a few of those ex-notes. Later the two (not exactly teenagers but 24 and 26 years old) were sentenced to four months each - strictly speaking, all they had stolen was printed paper, not money. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, for several reasons (the notes would rot very slowly, tunnel safety, etc.) the old notes were then moved from that place to the Buschhaus, NI power plant where they were burned. Took about 300 containers to transport them, and two months to burn them ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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