Several days ago while I was at NARA scanning H.Gr. Weichsel maps I learned that thousands (yes thousands!) of German army group and army level daily situation maps spent the last 70+ years misfiled. These are not scans or transparencies but the original 6 foot hand drawn daily situation maps.
They are contained in over 1,000 boxes. These have only recently made their way into the 3rd floor Cartographic section and appropriately indexed. In fact I believe I may have walked out of Archives II with the first copy of the map index. It is a 21 page document and I have attempted to abbreviate some of it below. However, I’ve only had time to type in less than half of what they have. There are individual boxes that contain military operational maps for specific cities like Stalingrad, Leningrad, Sevastopol, and other locations. Other army level maps exist for AOK 1, 2, 10, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, Ostpreussen, etc.,. The RG is 242 like the other LO Maps, and they are filed in Stack 331/Rows 80, 110-112.
Some of the daily army group situation maps with the corresponding dates of the converge:
H.Gr. Nord / Jun 12, 1941-Apr 4, 1945
H.Gr. Mitte / Jun 12, 1941-Apr 30, 1945
H.Gr. Sued / Jun 11, 1941-Apr 28, 1945
H.Gr. A / Aug 4, 1942-Dec 30, 1945
H.Gr. A & B / Jul 1, 1942-Aug 3, 1942
H.Gr. B / Aug 4, 1942-Jan 26, 1943
H.Gr. B & Don / Jan 27, 1943-Feb 12, 1943
H.Gr. N & Ukraine / Apr 5, 1944-Sep 22, 1944
H.Gr. S & Ukraine / Apr 5, 1944-Sep 22, 1944
USSR Northern Front / Sep 17, 1939-Jul 29, 1942
USSR Central Front / May 27, 1938-Feb 2, 1943
USSR Southern Front / Jul 12, 1941-Jul 5, 1943
Lage Rote Armee / Jun 30, 1941-Feb 22, 1945
Many more topics including fortifications, rail lines, and airforce positions are covered in these maps.
I asked the archivist specifically if these were originals or copies of the maps sent back to Germany in the 1980s. He assured that to the best of his knowledge these were originals that no one has touched since the 1950s and that they were located only at NARA (no copies sent to BAMA). Apparently they remained misfiled in the seconf floor Contextual Records holdings for decades. I personally did not try to access them (yet) so I did not out “eyes on”.
Hopefully this is a new source of information to other researchers.