emergency currency, notgeld, 50 heller, Austria
Note is in good condition.
History note
Currency note from Abstetten, Austria.
The acquisition comprises two albums containing German and Austrian currency notes (CUR 10123 : CUR 10988) and fifteen coins.
Instituted in the hope of avoiding war, appeasement was the name given to Britain’s policy in the 1930s of allowing Hitler to expand German territory unchecked. Most closely associated with British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, it is now widely discredited as a policy of weakness. Yet at the time, it was a popular and seemingly pragmatic policy.