Standard Oil Nazi Atlas of Germany

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STANDARD OIL NAZI ATLAS OF GERMANY

ALL THIRTY
1937
STANDARD OIL
COMPANY ROAD
MAPS OF
GERMANY

This is an absolutely remarkable road atlas of the Strassen (streets), Landesstrassen (highways) and the Reichsautobahn (freeway) network in Germany in about 1937. Bound in a large 10 x 17-3/4 inch red cloth hardcover book, the 30 maps if pieced together would create a single map of Germany about 5 x 10 feet in size!

The book is called Luftbildkarten für Kraftfahrer (Air-Picture Maps for Drivers) and it was published by the huge international oil producer, Standard Oil, which conducted business in the Third Reich Germany of Adolf Hitler as the Deutsch-Amerikanische Petroleum Gesellschaft, or German-American Petroleum Enterprise.

The first page of the splendid book is a composite map showing an overview of Germany and indexing each of the subsequent maps in the book to the master map. Each individual map measures about 17 x 18-3/4 inches and has a large, colorful road map on one side. The road maps are the work of F. Bruckmann AG of München (Munich).

Most of the road maps are at an excellent scale of 1:500,000 (1 cm = 5 km) so that even tiny hamlets are shown connected with the road system and railways. The Autobahn is depicted both “under construction” and “completed”.

Around the edge of each map is a 1-3/4 inch border containing illustrations of major points of interest, historical sights, famous buildings and people, city and state Wappen (shields), etc. For example, included in the border of map 3 is a drawing of Hitler’s Berghof home on the Obersalzberg above Berchtesgaden, a drawing of an execution in Braunau on the Inn River, the town of Hitler’s birth, and the Sterneckerbräu Beer Hall in Munich where the Nazi Party had its first meeting rooms, among many others.

Half of the backside of each map is devoted to an overview of the history and current statistics of cities and areas depicted on the front. The other half of the back of each map is comprised of city street maps of the largest towns and cities in the map area. Virtually every town or city shown has an ADOLF HITLER PLATZ or ADOLF HITLER STRASSE in or near the center.

These Esso maps are among the very best produced in Third Reich Germany. If you began today to try to acquire all 30 maps one at a time, the effort could take many years and could easily cost well over $1000.

This book is in excellent condition. Someone has done a small amount of touching up the paint in the white lettering on the front cover, and some of the maps have minor staining on the back side only (NOT ON THE MAP SIDE) just along the cloth binding tape with which each map is held in the book.

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