So, I'm working on a story involving a couple of SOE agents in Gdansk/Danzig, Poland during 1945 and I need to get some access to a contemporary map
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I tried looking for German sites but only found the above ones and the rest were all websites where you could buy maps. Maybe you can contact the city-archive of Danzig? Usually they are pretty helpful and might be able to either answer your question or even make you a copy of an available map if one exists.
German search terms might help you get on - "Map" is "Stadtplan", and "historical" is "historisch". Searching for "historischer stadtplan danzig" mainly brought me to stores which sell historic maps or replicas thereof, but I found a blog linking to actual maps.
Danzig without year, but the presence of German police stations and the likes and the mere fact that the map is in German would suggest pre-war.
I doubt that you will have much luck finding historical maps such as these from the mid-1940s, as people in that time were busy otherwise, but I hope these earlier ones help.
If you have difficulties with the German terms on the maps, Leo is a good translation help, or you can ask in denglish if you can't figure something out on your own.
Again, it might depend on when in 1945 you're looking for, as mentioned above. But since Gdansk was Polish after 1945, it might also help googling in Polish.
http://www.mapy.eksploracja.pl/viewpage.php?page_id=31 has all these maps (and others, older and newer, German and Polish) in sequence. The first is the whole city, the rest are zoomed-in neighbourhoods (in boxes on the first map). (Srodniescie is a typo for Srodmiescie (i.e. Śródmieście)).
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http://forum.danzig.de/showthread.php?t=79 (in German)
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This is a city-map from 1932: http://www.deutschlanddokumente.de/Bilder/krtDanzig1932Herder.jpg
Here's another from 1920: http://www.mapy.blink.pl/pomorze/Plan_der_Stadt_Danzig_1920.jpg
I tried looking for German sites but only found the above ones and the rest were all websites where you could buy maps. Maybe you can contact the city-archive of Danzig? Usually they are pretty helpful and might be able to either answer your question or even make you a copy of an available map if one exists.
Sorry that I can't be of more help.
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Danzig 1938
Danzig industrial area 1929
Danzig without year, but the presence of German police stations and the likes and the mere fact that the map is in German would suggest pre-war.
I doubt that you will have much luck finding historical maps such as these from the mid-1940s, as people in that time were busy otherwise, but I hope these earlier ones help.
If you have difficulties with the German terms on the maps, Leo is a good translation help, or you can ask in denglish if you can't figure something out on your own.
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Thanks for the links and the advice!
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Gdańsk mapa 1945
Map from 1946: http://www.mapy.blink.pl/plany/plan_1946.jpg
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http://www.mapy.blink.pl/plany/plan_1946.jpg
http://www.mapy.blink.pl/plany/plan_1946_nowy_port.jpg
http://www.mapy.blink.pl/plany/plan_1946_oliwa.jpg
http://www.mapy.blink.pl/plany/plan_1946_srodniescie.jpg
http://www.mapy.blink.pl/plany/plan_1946_stocznia.jpg
http://www.mapy.blink.pl/plany/plan_1946_wrzeszcz.jpg
Let me know if you need the descriptions translated :)
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http://www.mapy.eksploracja.pl/viewpage.php?page_id=31 has all these maps (and others, older and newer, German and Polish) in sequence. The first is the whole city, the rest are zoomed-in neighbourhoods (in boxes on the first map). (Srodniescie is a typo for Srodmiescie (i.e. Śródmieście)).
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