I forwarded the email about Nazi maps to MapHist and this reply just
came in ...
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Subject WWII Mapping Explanation
Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005
From: John & Jill Rado <[log in to unmask]>
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Angie,
Too much time since we last spoke.
I can shed light onto your recent discovery.
Towards the end of WW2 as the allies were marching into Germany,
paper was at a premium. The Allies captured tons of German maps. As
paper became scare, quite alot of German made maps were "reprinted" -
the allies printed maps on the Germany map's reverse. I have one such
in my collection, too. They are quite rare these days and valuable. I do
not know of anyone who specifically collects these artifacts. You really
have to be gung ho to collect these much less understand the conditions
by which they were printed. I may have a resource that mentions this
information, but it will take considerable time to track it down, in my
library, as I am into my second year of a labour intensive second
masters. I will keep it in mind, but realistically - don't expect a hard
definitive source in six months.
John Rado
http://www.silkmaps.com
Angie Cope, AGSL wrote:
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> Subject: Nazi-stamped maps
> Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 From: Michael Fry <[log in to unmask]>
> Organization: University of Maryland Libraries
> To: Maps and Air Photo Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>
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> I recently discovered that some of the older European topo maps in our
> collection have been stamped with Nazi insignia (i.e., an eagle, wings
> spread, standing on or grasping a wreath w/ a swastika inside) and the
> words "Reichsamt für Landesaufnahme" and "Kartensammlung" (roughly
> translated, I think, as "Reich's Agency for Surveying" and "map
> collections"). The particular sheet in front of me, Basel-Laufen from
> a 1936 "Topographischer Atlas der Schweiz," also has "S.282" and
> "22.[???] 1937" just to the left of the eagle. (I don't know if these
> are *related* to the eagle, but they're in the same color ink.)
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> In addition, there's also this stamp:
> CIA Map Branch
> Received
> Feb 25, 1949
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> According to Carlos Hagen's "Map Libraries and the Armed Services--A
> Story of Uneven Relationships," some of the maps distributed by the
> Army Map Service were "captured from Axis Powers." Is this the likely
> source of the sheet I'm looking at? Are maps with the Nazi insignia
> considered rare or valuable (and possibly worth removing from open
> access), or simply historically interesting artifacts?
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> Thanks for any insight you can provide.
>
> mf
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