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1940: German WW2 military intelligence map of Britain's electricity supply network
Generalstab des Heeres [German General Staff] :
Elektrizitsversorgung von England und Schottland [Electricity Network of England and Scotland]
Berlin: [Department for War Maps and Surveying], 1940/41.
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A large map of Britain, 34 inches x 23 inches, 86 cms x 59 cms, folded as issued, showing Britain's electicity stations and electricity supply network, being of obvious strategic importance for any invasion force. Printed on the reverse is a list of the
generating stations around Britain giving their individual power output figures.
In very nice condition, without damage - a scarce German WW2 invasion map of Britain.
Following the Battle of Britain in 1940, the Germans postponed their plans for Unternehmen Seelöwe (Operation Sealion), the invasion of Britain by large-scale troop landings along the South Coast. However, whilst abandoning their immediate plans to
invade, the German High Command continued to gather together detailed information to prepare the ground for any future invasion or occupation of Britain.
This scarce map, Sonderausgabe 1940 (Special Edition 1940), showing Britain's electricity distribution system, was issued in Berlin in 1941 as part of Militärgeographische Angaben über England (effectively translating as Military/geographical Report on
England) by Abteilung für Kriegskarten und Vermessungswesen (Department for War Maps and Surveying), and was intended Nur für den Dienstgebrauch (For official use only) by the Generalstab des Heeres (German General Staff).
In short, this map is one of a number of confidential documents prepared at the height of the Second World War for the use of high ranking military planners, officers and their immediate staff within the top echelons of the German war machine in Berlin.
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