Maps: 1939 - 1945
c1942-43 Nazi maps recovered by the US. All images from www.wii-photos-maps.com
1942: Positions of
Nazi units. Also
DETAIL image.
May, 1942: Nazi
"Operation Blau."
September, 1943: Europe. Also DETAIL image.
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December, 1943:
"Ostland" DETAIL.
1943 August
1943 October
1943 November
1944 January
"Brandenburg Division" troop locations:
1944 February
1944 March
1944 May
1944 "KLAIPEDA," from Army Map Service "POLAND
1:100000, sheet G-15. For use by War and Navy
Department Agencies only." Based on earlier German,
Russian and Lithuanian maps.
1941 Russian topographical map:
"N-34-70-G SUVALKI, 1:50000.
Based on maps back to 1890.
WWII: "OSTLAND."
Germans preparing to invade Poland on September 1, 1939
1940 "Belorusskaya SSR,"
Leningrad, 1:5 000 000, from the
11th edition of "Pocket Atlas of the
USSR," published by "Chief
Administration of Geodesy and
Cartography under the Council of
People's Commissars of the USSR."
Adjacent parts of Poland are labeled
"area of state interests of Germany"
1939 "N-35-VII OSHMYANY," 1:200000.
Also a DETAIL image. From www.mapywig.org
1940: "Estonskaya SSR,"
published the year of f its
establishment, July 21, 1940,
following the invasion of
Soviet troops on June 17,
1940 and the installation of a
puppet government. The
Estonian SSR was incorporated
into the USSR August 9, 1940
1939 Jančauskas: "KAUNAS,"
published by Štabo Karo Topografijos
Skyriaus, 1:25 000 From www.
mapywig.com
1941 "OSTPREUSSEN," at 1: 1
000 000, based on a 1926
map created by der Kartog.
Abteilung, updated to 1941
WWII boundaries. From US
Library of Congress