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1940: 174 German wartime photographs of England and Wales
Generalstab des Heeres [German General Staff] :
Militärgeographische Angaben über England: Bildheft England Insgesamt. [Photographs : Across England]
Berlin: [Department for War Maps and Surveying], 1940.
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8.5 inches x 6 inches (21 cms x 15 cms). 174 black and white half-tone photographs, printed both sides, of places throughout England and Wales as listed in the three pages of index shown below. In near-immaculate condition internally, as issued in original green
wrappers.
This work was prepared in 1940 and issued in Berlin the same year 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).
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.
In short, this book of photographs, many being aerial photographs, is one of a number of confidential documents prepared at the beginning of the Second World War for the use of high ranking military planners, officers and their staff within the top
echelons of the German war machine in Berlin.
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