[Escape map, Eichstatt Region, Bavaria, Germany]

Accession Number	RC00088
Map call number	Escape Map Collection
Collection type	Published Collection
Record type	Item
Item count	1
Measurement	image: 32 x 22.1 cm; Overall: 33.3 x 23.8 cm
Object type	Map
Maker	Walker, Archibald Larnach
Place made	Germany: Bavaria
Date made	1944
Conflict	Second World War, 1939-1945
Copying Provisions	Digital format and content protected by copyright. Non-commercial use permitted.

Description

This map was drawn by Captain Archibald Walker, 2/1st Machine Gun Battalion, whilst a prisoner in Oflag VIIB. Captain Walker was captured at Greece in 1941 and assisted in map production at Oflag VIIB. It shows the area around Eichstätt, Bavaria, where Oflag VIIB was located. Scale 1: 100,000.

Traced or copied maps were made during The Second World War. If tracing paper was not available, prisoners could make an adequate substitute by soaking ordinary paper with a type of hair oil sold in some camp canteens. Once the paper had dried it was reasonably transparent and could be written on in either indelible pencil or ink.

This map was copied from a German map. Larger scale local maps were essential in the first part of an escape, in order for the prisoner to get as far away from the camp as possible.

Verso contains a mimeographed map RC00087.