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<\/a>The Gea \u00dcbersichtskarte Mitteleuropa 1:1.500.000<\/em> (Gea Overview Map Central Europe) covers Europe from 2\u00b0E to 26\u00b0E and from 44\u00b0N to 57\u00b0 – that is from Paris<\/em> to Bucharest<\/em> and from Bologna<\/em> to Gothenburg<\/em>.<\/p>\nIn respect to my web site, it covers all of the then Deutsche Reich, Denmark, large parts of France and the Balkans – good enough to document most of the flying missions of the 8th USAAF over Germany. File Size is approx. 4.5MB, the map dimensions are roughly 4000 x 3200 pixel.<\/p>\n
This map comes in handy to understand and document German operations in the Unternehmen Barbarossa<\/em>\u00a0 – the attack on the Soviet Union. File size of this map is approx. 4MB, the dimensions are roughly 3300 x 4200 pixel.<\/p>\n I surely hope both maps come in handy at times and make access to the historical events easier – especially with the names now given as they are used in other historical sources of the time. Please understand that I cannot (and will not) provide the full-resolution maps as their sizes are well above 150MB each.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When dealing with events between 1939 and 1945 – especially if the they are related to any kind of military operations – it quite quickly becomes necessary to have access to historical maps in order to locate, put into perspective … Continue reading <\/a>The second map is the Gea \u00dcbersichtskarte Europ\u00e4isches Ru\u00dfland 1:3.300.000<\/em> (Gea Overview Map European Russia). It covers an area of 20\u00b0E to 60\u00b0E and 40\u00b0N to 70\u00b0N – that is from Warsaw<\/em> to Sverdlovsk<\/em> and from the Black Sea<\/em> to the North Cape<\/em>.<\/p>\n