JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post
This is a map of The End: “One Week over Germany”…”a week of retaliatory fire” (‘vergeltungsfeuer”). It is a piece of propaganda dropped on Germany along with high explosives, a small convincing element to entice soldiers to surrender and save Allied lives in the final push to Berlin.It is a map that shows much more than just the beginning of the end–it is the ending of the end, two-moves-to-mate. No more failed stalemate, no more breakouts, no more attacks, no more nothing.
I’d find it hard to believe that any Germany soldier would disbelieve what this map represented.
[Private collection]
And the reverse:
