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Dec 14, 2022 · 546 Legend in German and Spanish; a few sheets with legend in German and French. 520 German military map series covering Spain. Most sheets were issued 1940-1941, likely because German military planners envisioned Spanish involvement in World War II during those years. 651 0 Spain ǂv Maps. 655 7 Topographic maps. ǂ2 lcgft 655 7 Quadrangle maps.
- UC Berkeley Library Update
First Special edition [= Sonderausgabe] sheets were issued...
- UC Berkeley Library Update
Jul 29, 2021 · First Special edition [= Sonderausgabe] sheets were issued between 1940 and 1944, while the second Sonderausgabe sheets were chiefly issued in 1941. The source map data for the German military maps came from a Spanish map series, the Mapa topográfico de España en escala de 1:50,000 issued by the Direccion general del Instituto Geográfico Catastral y de Estadı́stica .
Jun 14, 2021 · German military topographic map series represent the bulk of UC Berkeley’s German World War II captured maps. A few sets were issued by the civilian Reichsamt für Landesaufnahme or one of its surveying sections, but the majority were issued between 1936 and 1945 by the German military mapping organization which was administratively ...
- Susan Powell, Heiko Mühr
- 2020
Feb 21, 2017 · One of the newly opened series is German Situation Maps of the Western Front, 1944-1945 (NAID 40432392). This series contains German maps that display the locations of the Allied armies at different times in 1944 and 1945. The maps include information on various Allied unit locations and the situations the Axis armies were facing at that time.
2. The origins of the maps held by The National Archives. The maps held here were those used by the War Office and the other central government departments that oversaw military operations during the war. As early as 1919, the War Office had agreed to supply mapping for the RAF and the Air Ministry.
Dec 14, 2022 · By the mid-1950s, however, the U.S. Army Map Service started to deposit these German maps in U.S. research libraries. Today the German World War II maps form important legacy collections in many American map libraries, including the UC Berkeley Library map collection. After 1945, U.S. map libraries largely focused on cataloging and promoting ...
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Mar 3, 2017 · The new series are German Situation Maps of the Western Front, 1944-1945 (NAID 40432392) and Various German World War II Maps, 1939-1945 (NAID 40480105). The collections contain photographic reproductions of a full map of Germany including how many states in Germany existed at the time, as well as reproductions of various daily situation report ...