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Subject: Re: MAPS-L: Nazi-stamped maps
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005
From: Edward James Redmond <[log in to unmask]>
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Michael:
As others have pointed out these maps with German Reich insignias are not all that uncommon. Dan Seldin is also most likely correct that this particular map sheet likely was acquired by LC from the "CIA Map Branch" and then made available to university map libraries via our intermittent Summer Map Project.
I am happy to hear (and hope that someone will be able to confirm) that both the BL and LC interpretations of German copyright may be inaccurate.
Ed
Ed Redmond
Geography & Map Reference Specialist
Geography and Map Division
Library of Congress
101 Independence Ave, SE
Washington, DC 20540-4650
(202) 707-8548
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Subject: RE: MAPS-L: Nazi-stamped maps
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005
From: Seldin, Daniel T. <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>
Some of these maps were distributed as part of the Army Map Service depository program shortly after World War II. However, the CIA Map Branch stamp makes me think that these maps could have come from the Library of Congress Summer Project, which the University of Maryland has participated in several times.
Daniel T. Seldin
Map Cataloger
Technical Service Dept.
Herman B Wells Library E350
1320 E. 10th St.
Bloomington, IN 47405-3907
812-855-2059
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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
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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.)
In addition, there's also this stamp:
CIA Map Branch
Received
Feb 25, 1949
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?
Thanks for any insight you can provide.
mf
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Government Documents & Maps Librarian
University of Maryland Libraries
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