Maps of Ostland and Gerneralgouvernment Polen
Maps of Ostland and Gerneralgouvernment Polen
Does anyone have scanned maps of Ostland and Gerneralgouvernment Polen (1940-1945), or knows where I can find some ?
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Simon -- These are pretty basic, but at least they give some idea of the boundaries. They are taken from ed. Gutman, Israel, Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, McMillan Publishing, New York: 1990, pp. 1041 and 1243:
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Lohse, Hinrich (2.9.1896-25.2.1964) [SA-Obergruppenfűhrer (hon.)] -- b. Muehlenbarbek bei Itzehoe; joined NSDAP Jun 1925; acting NSDAP Provincial Leader of Hamburg (kommissarischer Gauleiter des Gaues Hamburg) 3 Sept 1928-14 Apr 1929; NSDAP Provincial Leader and Senior President (Gauleiter and Oberpräsident) of Schleswig-Holstein 27 Mar 1925-8 May 1945; Reich Commissioner for the Eastern Lands (Reichskommissar Ostland) at Riga 17 Jul 1941-1944; Reichstag deputy 1933-1945 {arrested by British authorities 1 Jun 1945 in Germany (NYT 2 Jun 1945:7:7); sentenced by a British military tribunal (Who's Who pps. 195-6; Good Old Days p. 298) or a denazification tribunal at Bielefeld (ABR-Gaue) to 10 years imprisonment for war crimes in 1948; released on grounds of ill health Feb 1951 (Good Old Days p. 298); pension rights denied by West German government 1955; died at Muehlenbarbek bei Steinberg, Schleswig-Holstein 25 Feb 1964 (Good Old Days 298; Who's Who pps. 195-6; Encyclopedia of the Third Reich pps. 557-8; ABR-Gaue).}
The maps you privide are indeed basic David Thompson. And sincerely I don't have any others to present. So I shall make a few comments on the Polish map presented.
1-The border between Slovakia and Poland had two small modifications around the Tatra Mountains both in the west (high Orova) and in the east (Zips). These territories belonged to Hungary till the Treaty of Trianon gave them to Poland. In 1939 they were immediately ascribed to Slovakia.
2-In the part annexed by the USSR most of the towns are referred by Russian names (the majority including Lvov) which is somewhat incoherent.
3-The same goes to the part annexed by Lithuania. Vilna is the Russain name of the town but Poles speak of Wilna and Lithuanians of Vilnius.
4-Interestling is that on the other hand in the German annexed part all the names of the towns are in Polish...
1-The border between Slovakia and Poland had two small modifications around the Tatra Mountains both in the west (high Orova) and in the east (Zips). These territories belonged to Hungary till the Treaty of Trianon gave them to Poland. In 1939 they were immediately ascribed to Slovakia.
2-In the part annexed by the USSR most of the towns are referred by Russian names (the majority including Lvov) which is somewhat incoherent.
3-The same goes to the part annexed by Lithuania. Vilna is the Russain name of the town but Poles speak of Wilna and Lithuanians of Vilnius.
4-Interestling is that on the other hand in the German annexed part all the names of the towns are in Polish...
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I had the same problem finding a good map for those territories under German occupation and/or those territories annexed by Germany. The one below is the best I have at the moment and I already have presented it to this forum once. It was downlowed from this website:
http://www.landkartenindex.de/index.htm
http://www.landkartenindex.de/index.htm
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The map of Ostland shown in this thread is the same I've seen also in other sites or historic atlases, but in an Italian atlas printed in January 1943 showing the political borders of June 1942 I've found this map (as you can see, the borders of Ostland are quite different):
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May you tell me which maps you need, please? I'll try to find them. Maybe you'll like the maps I've posted in this thread: http://www.thirdreichforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=28149.Simon wrote:Does anyone have a maps over Italy from the war ?
Here there is a larger version of that map of Germany: http://www.rootsweb.com/~deubadnw/histo ... /d1944.jpg. From: http://www.rootsweb.com/~deubadnw/history/.viriato wrote:I had the same problem finding a good map for those territories under German occupation and/or those territories annexed by Germany. The one below is the best I have at the moment and I already have presented it to this forum once. It was downlowed from this website:
http://www.landkartenindex.de/index.htm