The following maps are the work of employees of the Executive Office of the President of the United States, taken or made as part of those persons’ official duties. As works of the U.S. federal government, the maps are in the public domain for non-commercial purposes.

The maps have been produced by the United States Military Academy’s Department of History and the United States Defense Printing Agency under the direction of cartographers Edward J. Krasnoborski and Frank Martini. The material was provided in part by the U.S. Army Center of Military History.

 

Date	Short description	Map
Late summer of 1944	Strategic situation development on the Western Front
September 1944	Situation on the Western Front at the beginning of September
10-07-1944	XIX Corps breaks through the Siegfried line
10-20-1944	The encirclement of Aachen
11-01-1944	Development of the situation after the surrender of Aachen
12-16-1944	Battle of the Bulge
January 1945	Allied counteroffensive at the Battle of the Bulge
March 1945	Allied push into the German Reich
April 1945	Occupation of the German Reich
1945	Occupied Germany after the surrender

The following maps are published with kind permission of the State Aachener Geschichtsvereins (Aachen History Association). They have been published in: Bernhard Poll, Das Schicksal Aachens im Herbst 1944. Authentische Berichte, 3 Vols., Aachen 1955, 1963, 1972. Copyright by Aachener Geschichtsverein.
 

Date	Short description	Map
September 1944	Aachen and the Siegfried Line
09-09-1944	Situation of the LXXXI corps of the Wehrmacht, beginning of September 1944
09-21-1944	Battles of the LXXXI corps in the Aachen region in September 1944
10-01-1944	Situation in the Aachen region, beginning of October 1944