Title: Stadtplan von London. Blatt SW. Nazi Mil.-Geo. Sealion invasion map. July 1940 Description: Stadtplan von London - Blatt SW [London city plan - southwest sheet]. A German military intelligence map produced during the early planning for Operation Seelöwe (Sea Lion), the intended Nazi invasion of England, issued strictly for Official Use Only and forming one of four sectional sheets covering London and its environs. Compiled in the weeks following the fall of France, it was created specifically for invasion and occupation planning, the legend identifying barracks, hospitals, railyards, key transport infrastructure and industrial facilities vital to the German war machine—explosives works, machinery plants, metal-fabrication sites, and oil-storage or distillation depots—together with public buildings essential for administrative control. Most chilling is the symbol for art collections, a detail which, given the systematic Nazi looting of cultural property elsewhere in Europe, underscores the wider intentions of occupation policy. On 2 July 1940 the Wehrmacht High Command instructed the services to begin preliminary invasion planning; this sheet, dated July 1940, is a direct product of that order. Prepared by IV. Mil.-Geo., the Army’s principal cartographic intelligence unit, it is a significant surviving artefact of German operational planning for London in 1940 and remains scarce outside institutional collections. . Generalstab des Heeres, Abteilung für Kriegskarten u. Vermessungswesen (IV. Mil. Geo.) [General Staff of the Army, Department for War Maps and Surveying (IV. Mil. Geo.)]. Published 1940 - Vorläufige Sonderausgabe! 7.40 [Provisional Special Edition July 1940]. World War Two Nazi invasion planning city plan map sheet. Size 68 x 82 cm | 26.5 x 32.5 inches. Condition: Good; suitable for framing. Please check the scan for any blemishes prior to making your purchase. Please contact us if you would like to arrange to view this map. This is a folding map. There is nothing printed on the reverse side, which is plain. Tags: 1940, Abteilung für Kriegskarten u. Vermessungswesen, Generalstab des Heeres Abteilung für Kriegskarten u. Vermessungswesen (Mil.-Geo.), London, Map, Militärgeographische Angaben über England, Town & city plans
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