Map

The map was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2013 by Betty and Max Kolpas. 

Map 

Foldout map of Berlin acquired by Max Kolpas, a soldier in the 298th Combat Engineers, United States Army. The map also shows the surrounding areas and identifies important Nazi buildings and other locations. It is missing adjoining sheets. The map was created by the Geographic Section, General Staff, British War Office. Kolpas landed at Omaha Beach during D-Day, June 6, 1944, and was a member of one of the first units to enter Berlin in July 1945. 

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1 map (missing 4 adjoining sheets) : col. ; 89 x 114 cm. (open) and text Scale: 1:20,000 Includes:"Reference" ;"All important buildings have been examined or air photographed no later than 29/5/44" ;"Glossary of main German topographical terms used on this pla" Verso: Sheet 3 (South-west) "Key to buildings in accordance with their functio" Compiled and drawn by A.C.I.U. and War Office ; Information in black supplied by I.S.T.D. ; Photolithographed by War Office. 1945.