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The “Where, When, and How” of Attacking Berlin (1943)

JF Ptak

I found this arresting map in a tiny publication called …Sans Condition, which was published in the first half of 1943. The publication is only 12 pages long but has a number of evocative images of Germany being bombed and lines of German POWs, in general a propaganda piece for French-speaking folk (which was printed god-knows-where) produced deep in the war and at a time when the tide has about turned on the Nazi regime.  

The title of this post is the title of the map,  “Ils ont decide ou, quand et comment les Allies lanceront leurs attacques”–and you don’t need to know French to know what it says.  

Map Berlin attacked426

And the cover, which is basically “Surrender Without Condition”:

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