Nazi Street Highway Atlas of Germany

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1936 Völkischer Beobachter Strassen-Atlas von Deutschland

1937 Völkischer Beobachter Strassen-Atlas von Deutschland

1938 Völkischer Beobachter Strassen-Atlas von Deutschland

We think that the best street and highway atlas published for motorists in Nazi Germany during the Third Reich was the one published by the Nazi printing house Franz Eher Nachfolger - the Völkischer Beobachter Strassen-Atlas von Deutschland - loaded with excellent two-page color maps at a scale of 1:500.000.

We have three of these 6-1/2 x 10-1/2 inch, 350+ page, hard cover atlases available, a 1936, a 1937, and a 1938 edition. Each is very much like the other but there are small differences some of which are pointed out below.

Each of the double-page spread maps in the book measures about 10-1/4 x 12-1/2 inches and is at a large enough scale where the hamlet of Obersalzberg and the town of Berchtesgaden are about 1/4 inch apart. In real life that distance is about 4 km (about 2.5 miles). That makes these maps supremely useful in finding anything anywhere in Third Reich Germany.

Of course, the Reichsautobahn is shown on all the maps as well as important features of the landscape. In neighboring lands the German names are shown in large type, while the former names are shown in smaller type.

Between the maps there is comprehensive tourist information about the areas depicted on adjacent maps. The back third of the book is composed of city maps interspersed with pages of hotel and car service information. There is advertising and an index to cities of over ten thousand population in the back of the book.

An interesting aspect of the city maps is the fact that nearly all German towns and cities had a Adolf Hitler Square or Adolf Hitler Street and they are perfectly obvious and easy to find on the maps in this atlas.

The VB Atlas of Germany gives license plate information for all German states and governmental subdivisions, provides a 4-page list of addresses for the NSKK and information about motor sports and traffic laws. There is a large overview map of Germany divided into 50+ sections and those sections are referenced to tabs indented into the edge of the pages.

If you are only going to have one bound atlas of Nazi Germany, the Völkischer Beobachter Strassen-Atlas von Deutschland is the one we suggest you buy.

1936 VERSION (3rd EDITION): in very good, very tight, little used condition with the name of a former owner stamped on the end paper and title page. Shows little wear.
**SOLD**.

1937 VERSION (4th / 5th EDITION): in fair to good used condition with a dedication to the former owner on the front end paper. The cover shows wear and the spine has been retaped to the front and back covers with scotch tape. Maps are in good used condition.
Offered for sale for $195.00 delivered to any address in the continental USA. Foreign buyers, inquire about additional postage.

1938 VERSION (4th / 5th EDITION): in fair to good used condition with the name of the former owner on the inside of the front cover. The cover shows minimal wear but the spine has been re-attached. Someone once de-Nazified this book by cutting the eagle and swastika out of the front cover and by tearing out or defacing five of the first pages with Nazi information on them. The cover has been repaired and the missing pages replaced with photocopies from another example in our archive. The map pages are in nice condition.
Offered for sale for $165.00 delivered to any address in the continental USA. Foreign buyers, inquire about additional postage.

Also for sale on USMBOOKS.com, original
Third Reich maps, travel memorabilia, and rare Reichsautobahn material.

NAZI STREET ATLAS OF GERMANY

THE BEST STREET
AND HIGHWAY
ATLAS OF
THIRD REICH
GERMANY
AT A SCALE
OF 1=500.000

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