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1941: German detailed street plans of Rugby
Generalstab des Heeres [German General Staff] :
[Large scale street plans of] Rugby
Berlin: [Department for War Maps and Surveying], 1941.
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The complete set of two German World War II large scale, 1:10000 (about 6 inches to the mile), adjoining street plans of Rugby and area, each 20 inches x 28 inches, 51 cms x 72 cms, folded as issued.
The scale is sufficiently large to show individual buildings and houses with areas of strategic or military
importance, or potential targets for ground or air attack, being identified and outlined.
In near immaculate untouched condition, with the slightest trace of wear on some of the folds.
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.
These scarce adjoining street plans of Rugby were issued in Berlin in 1941 as part of Militärgeographisch Einzelangaben über England (effectively translating as Military/geographical Single Targets across England) by Abteilung für Kriegskarten und Vermessungswesen (Department for War Maps and Surveying), and were intended Nur für den Dienstgebrauch (For official use only) by the Generalstab des Heeres (German General Staff).
In short, these detailed street plans are 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.
Virtually irreplaceable, particularly in this fine condition and of immense local history interest to Rugby.
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