Published in December 1950, the Western Europe map is a snapshot of the region as it stood shortly after the end of the Second World War. The status of the Saar and the minor adjustments in Germany's boundary with the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France are provisional at the time, pending a treaty of peace with Germany. The 1950 Western Europe map features: • Notes about post-World War II borders • American, British, French, and Russian occupation zones in Germany shown • Capitals, cities, and towns • Highways, Autobahn, principal railways, canals, and principal airports • Mountains, passes, rivers, lakes, and glaciers • Geographical equivalents • Ruins
Coverage Area: Ireland, Great Britain, Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Switzerland, southern Denmark, western Germany, northwestern Italy
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