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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lettow, post: 1553402, member: 6986&quot;]When WWII ended the records and documents of the Reichsbank fell into the hands of the Russians who eventually passed down whatever the Russians had no need for to the East German government.&nbsp; This would include hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of worthless bonds and other fiscal documents.&nbsp; These documents passed into the hands of the Bundesbank after German unification in 1990.&nbsp; In 2008 or 2009 the collectible documents (bonds, scrip, whatever) were sold by the Bundesbank in large lots.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>These documents have found there way into the collecting community and you will now find thousands of different types of pre-WWII and WWII era bonds available in the marketplace.&nbsp; Just take a look at the scripophily section of Ebay and you will see no end of these items available at a wide range of prices.</p><p><br /></p><p>To my knowledge there is no reference book that covers all of the various items.&nbsp; There are books on the bonds and scrip of the Konversionskasse (Conversion Office of German Foreign Debts), Steuergutscheine (tax vouchers) and Bedarfsdeckungschein (family assistance vouchers) but these are in German. There is a book that came out earlier this year on financial instruments of the war years in Germany but it covers just about everything other than bonds.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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