Baedeker vetting Baedeker guides, proposing and effecting changes in the text, as they saw fit, and laying down to whom certain guides could be sold. Baedeker was asked to publish a guidebook for the German Army of Occupation in Poland, with history written as the Nazis wished it to be written, as the introduction to the 1943 book "Das Generalgouvernement" reveals. The 1948 "Leipzig" was the first post-World War II Baedeker and the last one to be published in Leipzig, which was now in the Russian zone. The Russians had not granted Baedeker a publishing licence. Hans got round this by
Michael Thomas Bass (1760–1827) and was MP for Derby for over 35 years. His third son Abraham Bass was an influential cricketer, known as the 'father of Midlands cricket'. Michael Thomas Bass (1760–1827) Michael Thomas Bass (23 July 1760 – 9 March 1827) was a brewer of Burton-on-Trent, England, who considerably developed the Bass brewing company. Bass was the son of William Bass, a carrier from Leicestershire, who founded the brewery in 1777. After his father's death in 1787, Michael ran the brewery with his brother William until he took sole control in 1795. He continued to develop the Baltic trade with Russia and