04/05/2026
THE MAP USED IN PLANNING THE INVASION OF THE USSR! Coming in our April 21 Auction - Bid Live or Online at Invaluable or LiveAuctioneers O.K.H. MAP OF TROOP BUILDUPS ON THE UKRANIAN BORDER PRIOR TO OPERATION BARBAROSSA A historically important war-date map, 22.5 x 20 in., originating from the personal files of German General FRANZ HALDER (1884-1972), Chief of Staff of the German ‘Oberkommando des Heeres' (OKH), or Army High Command, from 1938 until his removal in 1942, and a primary planner of Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union. The map is a 1:1,000,000-scale depiction of the intersecting borders of German-occupied Poland and Czechoslovakia and allied Hungary with those of Soviet Ukraine, with modern Lviv in the east at right and Katowice in the west at left. The map has been extensively hand-annotated in ink to show troop buildups in the German-aligned territories, and is dated March 2, 1941 at top left. This indicates that it was prepared to indicate troop dispersals prior to the launch of Barbarossa in June, 1941. A key has been pasted to the map at lower left, providing a color code for troop movements by date. The verso of the map is stamped ‘Geheime Kommandosache' (Top Secret) and ‘Nur durch Offizier' (Official Use Only). The edges of the map have been trimmed to remove unnecessary areas, and it shows folds and file holes to the interior, otherwise in very good condition overall. The areas of Ukraine shown on this map would be completely overrun by the German offensive by the end of summer, 1941.
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