new blog post! German Army Map of Spain 1:50,000 (1940-1944)

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Jul 29, 2021, 9:24:49 PM7/29/21

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We've just published a new blog post by Heiko Mühr about one of the largest map sets in the UC Berkeley Library German WWII Captured Maps Collection:

German Army Map of Spain 1:50,000 (1940-1944)

Beginning in 1936, a newly-formed German military mapping agency produced a large number of topographic map series covering all parts of Europe at various scales, as well as much of northern Africa and the Middle East.

This organization started out as a back room department of the German Army General Staff, focused on military contingency mapping. But, given the murderous goals of the Nazi regime, it quickly morphed into something else, a military mapping agency which provided planning tools for the Nazi leadership to wage a war of conquest, marked by atrocities and unspeakable crimes.