The Bomber’s Baedeker. A Guide to the Economic Importance of German Towns and Cities

The Bomber's Baedeker

The two-volume printed work “The Bomber's Baedeker. A Guide to the Economic Importance of German Towns and Cities” was produced during the Second World War by the British Foreign Office and the Ministry of Economic Warfare. It lists towns and cities of the German Reich with more than a thousand inhabitants and information on their war-related infrastructure, industrial and production facilities. Only four verified copies still exist worldwide and none of them have been accessible for scholarly digital use until now. “The Bomber's Baedeker” was re-discovered in 2019 in the library of the Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG), digitised in cooperation with the Mainz University Library and made accessible and processed by the Digital Historical Research | DH Lab and the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences as part of a cross-institutional cooperation (including courses with students) so that “The Bomber's Baedeker” can now be used, analysed and processed as an open, machine-readable data source in compliance with FAIR principles.