Unknown Token

DoubleDime

Its about the size of a cent, gray in color, maybe aluminum. At the top it reads "KRIEGSGEFANGENEN-LAGER". At the bottom ULMaD. In the center is a large "2". On the back just the letter"2". Typed this in on the inter-net and got German Prisoner of War Camps WWII. There was nothing about this token. Any help would be nice.

MasonG

For sale, MA Shops:

German emergency coins Ulm (Württemberg) Kriegsgefangenen-Lager Ulm 2, 5, 10 (Pf) TTB/SUP
https://www.ma-shops.com/saive/item.php?id=6746

Sapyx

These are part of the overall series of "notgeld tokens". "Notgeld" (literally "emergency money") includes WWI POW camp tokens, civilian wartime emergency money, and post-war hyperinflationary items. The term "notgeld" can be applied to both metal tokens and to paper money.

"Krieg" = war. "Gefangenen" = prisoners. "Lager" = camp.

Both sides, in both world wars, used POW camp tokens. This was to allow for the creation of a functioning reward-and-punishment economy within the camp, without giving the POWs access to real-world money which they might then use with the local civilians if they were to successfully escape.

These tokens date from World War I, not WWII. Ulm, in the country's south, was a camp for regular soldiers (rather than officers, who were held in separate camps).

DoubleDime

Thank you, a lot more information than what I was able to find.