Baedeker having 10,000 copies printed by the "Bibliographisches Institut." However, after some 1000 copies had been sold, the Russians said the guidebook contained military secrets in the form of a map showing the site of their "Kommandantura", and confiscated the remaining copies. New English titles during this time were 1927's "Tyrol and the Dolomites", 1931's "The Riviera" (including South Eastern France and Corsica), an edition of "Germany" for the 1936 Olympic Games, and 1939's "Madeira, Canary Islands, Azores, Western Morocco". 1948−1979: Karl Friedrich Baedeker (1910−1979) was the son of Karl Baedeker III, who was killed in action at the Battle of
Karl Baedeker (scientist) the first transparent conducting oxide (TCO) thin film, cadmium oxide (CdO), in 1907. TCOs are now ubiquitous in optoelectronics and a multibillion-dollar industry. Baedeker was killed in action in August 1914 during World War I at the Battle of Liège . His son, Karl Friedrich Baedeker revived the Baedeker publishing house after the Second World War. In 2014, a conference on transparent conducting oxides was held in Leipzig to commemorate the centenary of Baedeker's death. A paper on the life and work of Baedeker was published in the proceedings of the meeting. Karl Baedeker (scientist) Karl Wilhelm Sali Baedeker (3