German Army Map Switzerland

The German Army Map Switzerland (DHK Switzerland) is a map of Switzerland that was issued as a secret edition by the German Wehrmacht during World War II through the " OKH , GenStdH, Chief of War Maps and Surveying".

Its predecessor was the " Special Edition Switzerland ". Together, the works are the first comprehensive map series in Switzerland on a scale of 1: 25,000. In contrast to the «Special Edition Switzerland», the DHK no longer used Gauss-Krüger coordinates , but the German army grid .

See also

• Operation Christmas tree
• List of map series

literature

• Markus Oehrli, Martin Rickenbacher: German Army Map Switzerland 1:25 000 - a secret map series from the Second World War. In: Cartographica Helvetica. Issue 26 (2002), pp. 3–12 ( full text ).
• Martin Rickenbacher, Markus Oehrli: Source criticism with maps. From the “Canaris Archive” to the “German Army Map Switzerland”. In: Swiss History Journal . Vol. 52 (2002), pp. 1–27 ( full text ).
• Martin Rickenbacher: You had the better cards. The update of the secret "German Army Map Switzerland 1:25 000" in the Second World War. In: Geomatics Switzerland. Vol. 101 (2003), Issue 11, pp. 622-629 ( full text ).