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1941: German detailed street plan of Northampton
Generalstab des Heeres [German General Staff] :
[Large scale street plan of] Northampton
Berlin: [Department for War Maps and Surveying], 1941.
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A German World War II large scale, 1:10000 (about 6 inches to the mile) street plan of Northampton, 25 inches x 25 inches, 63 cms x 63 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 creasing 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.
This scarce street plan of Northampton was 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 was intended Nur für den Dienstgebrauch (For official use only) by the Generalstab des Heeres (German General Staff).
In short, this detailed street plan 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.
Virtually irreplaceable, particularly in this nice condition and of immense local history interest to Northampton.
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