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This is a terrific 1941 Third Reich map showing the countries of Italy, Greece, Turkey, Yugoslavia, Rumania, Hungary, Slovakia, Malta, Cyprus, the southern part of Nazi Germany, the southwestern part of the Soviet Union (Ukraine), and the coastal area of Libya and Egypt. Kiev is in the upper right-hand corner, Augsburg, Dachau and Munich in the upper left-hand corner, north Africa is along the bottom edge and Turkey and the Black Sea are along the right side of this World War II color map.

For anyone studying military or political aspects of Third Reich Germany and / or World War II in southeastern Europe, this is a perfect map. It is not so large that it can not be mounted or framed and hung on the wall of a reasonable sized room.

Above, part of Benito Mussolini’s Fascist Italy, including Naples, Anzio, Monte Cassino, Rome, and Florence.

Above, the part of this OKW map showing Athens, the Peloponnese and the island of Crete where on the morning of 20 May 1941 "Operation Mercury” started, the airborne invasion by Nazi Fallschirmjäger.

It is the big 27-½ x 39-½ inch, multicolor Bibliografisches Institut AG Schlag Nach map of “Southeastern Europe” in a scale of 1 to 2,500,000 as published for the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW) Department of Domestic Maps in Berlin in 1941. It is one of a series of Tornisterschrift or Backpack Maps for use only inside the Wehrmacht or Armed Forces.

The 81 year old map was saved carefully since the end of ld War II and is in very good, little-used condition. The colors are still bright, and it has no large holes or tears, no tape repairs and no odor.