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dslonline
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Today I passed by some adventizement for a documentary film on the Berlin airlift. The cinema poster had been decorated with lots of photos and documents from the cold war. One document struck my attention. It was a rather schematic map of Western Europe (no borders, but some cities and rivers where shown) with the area ca. 200 km around Berlin marked red, then arrows marking troop movements pointing to the west through Germany into the Benelux countries and France. There were several 'front lines' indicated, marked by comments such as 'D + 10 days to D + 15 days'. The last front line was where approximately the Franco-Spanish border lies; it read 'operation completed D + 35 days'. The map was marked 'top secret' as well as 'JTC 435/12' and 'CSS 692 USSR (3-27-45), Sec, 34'. Is this just a product of later cold war fantasies (or maybe even later days advertisement), or is it a copy of some US document from early 1945 assessing the (presumed) capability of the USSR to continue to invade Western Europe? If the latter, I wonder which agency did it and what kind of scenario the assumed.
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angiras
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Why 1945? It seems to me that any such map would date from several years later.
You say that there are no borders and that the Russian areas and advances were in red. That sounds to me like a propaganda piece, suggesting that the 'classified' information is bogus.
And wouldn't the document (if real) be a Russian map rather than an American one?
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europaslayer
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What language was used for the comments on the map? If it wasn't Russian, I'd suspect a mockup or hoax, not a real map.
It's a shame you don't have a photo of this map as I'm sure it would be interesting to see. Do you recall the name of the film? If so, perhaps we can find a promotional website for the film or the production company that includes the same map, which would allow for more analysis.
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swill321
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on 23 May 2004 09:39:54 -0500,
I suspect it's from a CPX.
We just finished one last month.
If you had wandered into our S2/3 clerks office the next day you would think we had been planning to invade North Korea....
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