Młynarki

[2] Various Polish banks and credit institutions were temporarily closed, while some of their assets were nationalized by the German government.

[5] The name was also reflected in one of the actions of the Polish resistance, Operation Góral, a 1943 heist in which the insurgents took over a currency shipment then worth over US$1 million.

[6][7] The 500 note was also the standard "unit of corruption"; the minimum bribe that representatives of the occupation authorities required to facilitate the carrying out of illicit activity.

[8] In that role, it was immortalised in a popular underground street song in Warsaw, Siekiera, motyka.

[9] The currency notes were used exclusively within the General Government but not the Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany.