Coins; Medals; Money; Numismatics; Prisoners of war
Experiences in a German internment camp, with interesting drawings by
the author as illustrations.
[Alexander] Backhaus, Die Kriegsgefangenen in Deutschland.
Siegen-Leipzig-Berlin: Verlag Hermann Montanus, 1915.
About 250 photographs from German prison camps with explanatory
comments.
[Anonymous]: Deutsche Kriegsgefangene in Feindesland. Berlin and
Leipzig: 1919.
Official accounts of the German government concerning prisoners of war
in France and England.
Clemens Plassmann, Die deutschen Kriegsgefangenen in Frankreich,
1914-1920. Berlin: Verlag der Reichsvereinigung ehemaliger
Kriegsgefangener, 1921.
A systematical discussion of all legal and social problems concerning
the German prisoners of war in France, 1914-1920.
Dora Coith, Kriegsgefangen: Erlebnisse einer Deutschen in Frankreich.
Leipzig: Hesse und Becker Verlag, 1915.
Description of experiences in a French war prison of a German civil
internee.
Robert Guerlain, A Prisoner in Germany. London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd.,
1944.
Account of a French soldier who spent more than a year as a prisoner
of war in one of the vast prison camps in Germany, 1940-1941.
I. Internment Camp Money
Bruno Röttinger, Das deutsche Gefangenenlagergeld sowie Gruben und
Zechengeld 1914/1918. (Volume V of Dr. Arnold Keller’s
Notgeldbücher). Frankfurt a. M.: Adolph E. Cahn, 1922. V + 42 pp.
The most complete check-list of all kinds and varieties of the German
internment camp money superseding previously published lists.
J. Schulman, La Guerre Européenne 1914-1916: Catalogues, Nos. LXVII,
January, 1917, pp. 99-129, nos. 864-1188, plates IX-XI (Germany,
Austria-Hungary); pp. 152-154, nos. 1387-1400 (Germany); LXX,
March, 1918, pp. 66-70, nos. 745-801 (Germany); pp. 129-131, nos.
1441-1465 (Austria-Hungary); LXX, pp. 166-168, nos. 1797-1831 a
(France); LXXIII, January, 1919, pp. 19-27, nos. 171-259 (France);
pp. 55-58, nos. 535-573 (Germany); pp. 78-79, nos. 770-773
(Austria); pp. 104-106, nos. 1049-1064 (France); LXXV, December,
1919, pp. 10-12, nos. 90-112 (France); pp. 91-96, nos. 832-882
(Germany); pp. 99-100, nos. 906-917 (Austria-Hungary).
Many complete sets listed with very fine numismatic descriptions.
[Anonymous], “The Numismatic Side of the European War.” The Numismatist,
XXIX (July, 1916), p. 328.
On internment camp money of Freistadt, Grodig, and Kleinmünchen.
[Anonymous], “Europe’s War Legacy to Collectors.” The Numismatist, XXIX
(1916), pp. 498-499.
On Austrian war prisoners money “in the war prisoners’ camp at
Braunau, and struck in nickel-aluminum. All are of the same type and
have a small square hole in the center.” Also on war prisoners money
used in the camps at Danzig-Troyl, Prussia, and Kleinmünchen, Austria,
with reproduction of several sets.
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