1940: German atlas of 117 English city and town plans for Operation Sealion
Generalstab des Heeres [German General Staff] :
Stadtdurchfahrtplane England ohne London [Town Plans of England, except London]
Berlin: [Department for War Maps and Surveying], 1940.
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8 inches x 6 inches (21 cms x 15 cms). 117 pages of mainly English city and town plans (4 in Wales, 1 in Scotland), printed both sides (i.e. 117 town plans). A large folding frontispiece (shown further down this page in two sections) provides a key map of all the various
locations covered.
Most are single-page, as in Coventry and Darlington, illustrated here; about 18 are double-page and folding, as Cardiff and Southport.
In unmarked and virtually original condition, as issued by the Wehrmacht in 1940, with the exception of a creased front cover.
A nice copy of the scarce first 1940 edition of the German Wehrmacht's atlas of British city and town plans, published in Berlin by Abteilung für Kriegskarten und Vermessungswesen (Department for War Maps and Surveying) within the Generalstab des Heeres (German General Staff).
These plans were produced For Official Use Only! (Nur für den Dienstgebrauch!) to be used in conjunction with Unternehmen Seelöwe (Operation Sealion), the German plan for a land invasion of England in 1940.
This original German-printed atlas of wartime plans, most of which have never been republished, has immense historical significance as one of the few surviving remnants of World War Two German invasion material for the cities and towns involved.
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