Reichsmark notes from the Buchenwald concentration camp, located on the Ettersberg near Weimar, Germany. Buchenwald was liberated by the Third Army, to which Goetz’s unit was attached. In an oral history interview, Mary Cobuzzi, daughter of Captain John Van Mameren, the commander of Goetz’s company, explained that her father had told her that his unit had been involved in the liberation of Buchenwald, and that they forced the Germans who lived in the vicinity of the camp to march through it despite their claims that they did not know what was going on inside. Van Mameren made clear to his daughter that he did not accept the veracity of these claims since the smell of burnt bodies permeated the air for miles around the camp. Interview with Mary Cobuzzi, April 2016.
Goetz hid these notes behind the 1000 Marks Reichsbanknote, above.