special find !

[milcollector]

I saw this lot advertised. Not well described, but I noticed something interesting, so I bought it for a cheap price.
I am sure you guys can also see it ?

Just going to the post office to pick it up and will post pics later on.

[R MICHAEL]

the volga and Stalingrad map? if so great pickup!

[PZIV]

If so I think it's upside down.

[Hank C.]

I see "Mittelmeer", which always piques my interest...

best
Hank

[Jonathan M]

If its Volga and Stalingrad, its not upside down. If you look North, up the Volga, the city will be on the left as it is shown on the map.

Jonathan

[torstenbel]

looks like a nice lot. how much did you pay? Cheers, Torsten.

[milcollector]

well, I just got back from the Post office and am very happy to say the least.
A big group of Hannover civilian docs, wartime newspapers, many from the days of the Stalingrad capitulation announcement (so the family must have had some link with the battle) and a couple of other maps, but the one and only reason I bought this group was of course the very rare Stalingrad map.

Official Wehrmacht issue map for field use. Printed by the a military map department in Warsaw, Poland, July 1942 - no doubt in preparation for the drive of 6th Army into the Stalingrad region.
Based on a captured Soviet map 1941. Printed from the captured printing plates with German location overprints beside the Russian names.
The big names are there - the Barrikady, Pitomnik, Gumrak, the tractor factory, Rynok etc.

A German soldier originally was in possesion of this map. Was he actually at the battle and bought it home with him ?? - that I will never know.

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[Jonathan M]

Nice one.