Egypt 56. ‘Umgesbungsplan von Alexandrien mit Mil.-Geo. -Objekten’ recto; ‘Stadplan von Alexandrien...’, verso, ‘...Anlage zu: Militargeographische Angaben uber Agypten...Ausgabe Nr. 2, Stand: 1941’. Berlin: Generalstab des Heers Abteilung fur Kriegskarten und Vermessungswesen, (IV. Mil.-Geo), 1941. Large folding colour printed maps, with over-printing. Supplement maps of Alexandria, for the ‘Mil.- Geo.-’ packets of Egypt. 57. ‘Militargeographische Angaben uber Agypten. Abgeschlossen am 20. Juni 1942’. Berlin: Generalstab des Heers Abteilung fur Kriegskarten und Vermessungswesen, (IV. Mil.-Geo), 1942. Original orange printed stiff paper wallet. Provenance: with the ink library stamp of the ‘Mil Geo A Bibliothek’ throughout. Contents: 1. ‘...Textheft’. 8vo., 195 leaves of text with inset maps, 5 folding maps; original orange printed paper wrappers. 2. ‘... Bildheft’. Oblong 8vo., 172 pages of photographs, including 5 in colour. 3. ‘Agypten’. Large folding colour printed map, with over-printing. 1 : 2 000 000. General topographical map. 4. ‘Befahrbarkeitskarte’. Large folding colour printed map on two sheets, ‘Marsa Matruh’ and ‘Kairo’. 1 : 500 000. Terrain and route maps. 5. ‘Karte der wichtigsten Kanal- und Flussubergange in Agypten’. Large folding colour printed map, with over-printing, on three sheets, ‘Kairo’, Assiut’ and ‘Keno’. 6. Extra-illustrated with ‘Stadtplan von Port Said und Port Fouad’. 1 : 5000. Large-scale plan of the port. With the ink stamps of the Third Reich and other official departmental stamps, issued with ‘Nordost-Afrika’ in 1940. Egypt accommodated British troops during WWII, based on their treaty of 1936, which enabled them to defend the Suez Canal, but remained relatively neutral until 1945, when King Faruk finally declared war on Germany and Japan.
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