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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;FredJB, post: 5296927, member: 73005&quot;][ATTACH=full]1222938[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1222939[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>When I started my current project of preparing&nbsp; a huge not geld collection for sale I figured that there would be some historically interesting items turning up.&nbsp; After WWI most of the central European economies were faltering and suffering from severe coin shortages.&nbsp; This resulted in a flood of paper not geld notes being issued by local towns in most European countries especially Austria and Germany.&nbsp; Most issuers used designs&nbsp; illustrating local land marks, folk lore and history.&nbsp; In this case Mauthausen, Austria reflected on their own WWI history and the Prisoner of War Camp that was in their town.&nbsp; The front of the notes shows the town arms and denominations of 10, 20, or 50 heller.&nbsp; The back side has five standing men in military uniforms with a caption translating “Types of&nbsp; war prisoners in the Mauthausen Camp 1914-1918“.&nbsp; Based on the uniforms from left to right the men are Serbian, Italian, British, Black French Colonial soldier and a French Officer. The notes are not dated but were issued in 1920.&nbsp; This would be interesting enough but there is more.&nbsp; In 1938 Nazi Germany annexed Austria&nbsp; and within a few years set up one of their many brutal concentration camps where the old POW camp had been.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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