3) The German land - introduction for GB servicemen 1944

[Germany with double the size like Great Britain]

Germany is a big country.

In area [in 1939?] it is twice as big, and in population about one and a half times as big, as England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland together.

As the map on pages 64 and 65 shows you, Germany is landlocked except for the tideless Baltic in the north and a short coastline on the North Sea. In the est and west its frontiers are not defined by great mountains and rivers, which is one reason perhaps why the Germans are always trying to push them further out.

[All criminal events of the Treaty of Versailles of 1919 are hidden - all financing of Hitler and NSDAP by the "U.S.A." since 1933 are hidden - and the lodges 1941
All robbery of the German colonies and all more robberies of German territories by the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 and all financing of Hitler by the "U.S.A." since 1933 and all the arrangements of the high lodges from 1941 eliminating communism with another lightning war - all this is hidden here].

[Rivers, climate, landscapes]

Its greatest rivers, the Rhine, Elbe, Oder and Danube, are not purely German, since they flow through other countries before reaching the sea.

The climate in North-Western Germany is rather like that in Britain, but as you go south or east you will find it hotter in summer and colder in winter than it is at home. There is more rain in Western Germany than in the east, but everywhere you will get more fine, hot days in summer and more crisp, bright cold winter.

Germany has a great variety of scenery. In the north is a great plain, bare except for occasional pine forests and studded with lakes; it is a continuation of the plains of Russia and Poland. In Central Germany the hilly uplands are thickly forested. The valley of the Rhine with [p.9] its hidden hills, its vineyards and old castles, is well known to English tourists, and further south you come through the foothills to the German Alps.

Industry - [Ruhr area, Berlin, Thuringia, Saxony, and Silesia]

Germany is highly industrial. The German "Black Country" [Ruhr area] is in the west on the Rhine and Ruhr, where what is left of the towns of Cologne, Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Duisburg, Essen, Bochum and many other familiar from our Air Ministry reports, form one great continuous industrial area. Other great centers of manufacture are in Thuringia and Saxony (Central Germany and in the eastern province of Silesia.

The north-western port of Hamburg, which is about half as big again as Glasgow is probably the most "English" of German towns. It has always had close commercial ties with this country.

Seventy years ago, Berlin, the capital, was about the size of Manchester. Now, with a population of nearly four and a half millions, it is over one-third as big as Greater London. It is the seat of government of the German "Reich" and is practically surrounded by a broad belt of industrial plants.

[One of the best traffic nets of Europe]

The German transport system was one of the best in Europe. Apart from its excellent railways, much use was made of the great natural waterways, like the Rhine, which were connected by a system of canals [p.10]. One of Hitler's positive achievements was to build hundreds of miles of first-class motor-roads, though his object in doing so was largely military. These are called Autobahnen (car-ways) [p.11].

[This is a lie because tanks and military supplies are mostly transported by train for evading traffic congestions and above all for evading street damages].

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