#3 on Slate's 10 Oddest Travel Guides list

[David Morris]

http://www.slate.com/id/2196353/

3. Das Generalgouvernement, by Karl Baedeker (1943)
The iconic Baedekers of Leipzig, pressured by the Nazi government into
producing a vacation guide to occupied Poland, published the most
inadvertently creepy guidebook ever, complete with Reichminister
General Governor Hans Frank promising visitors the charms of home—"ein
stark heimatlich anmutendes Gebilde." Those charms include an
Adolf-Hitler-Platz in the foldout Warsaw map and a brief entry for
Auschwitz listing it only as a "train station." Although Germans lost
no time in producing vacation guides to their newly captured
territories—check out this 1940 guide to non-Blitzkrieg visits to
Paris—it's still hard not to be struck by the inner cover's sale
listing of prewar Baedekers. They include guides to Großbritannien and
Rußland—destinations most Germans could only view through a bombsight.