Baedeker Blitz for the German Foreign Office, is reported to have said on 24 April 1942, "We shall go out and bomb every building in Britain marked with three stars in the Baedeker Guide", a reference to the popular travel guides of that name. Goebbels was furious; keen to brand British attacks as "terror bombing", he was equally keen to designate German efforts as "retaliatory measures". Stumm's off-the-cuff remark "effectively admitted the Germans were targetting cultural and historic targets, just what the German leadership did not want to do, and Goebbels took steps to make sure it did not happen again". The
Karl Baedeker clarity, detail and accuracy. From "Baedeker: Ein Name wird zur Weltmarke" Karl Baedeker's list : 1828: Rheinreise von Mainz bis Cöln; Ein Handbuch für Schnellreisende 1829: Extract from 'Rheinreise'. 1829: Voyage du Rhin de Mayence à Cologne 1829: Coblence; an extract from 'Le Rhin'. 1839: Moselreise von Trier bis Koblenz mit geschichtlichen Bemerkungen 1835: Holland 1835: Belgien 1842: Handbuch für Reisende durch Deutschland und den Oesterreichischen Kaiserstaat 1844: Schweiz 1847: Bad Bertrich im Uesbachthale an der Mosel 1851: Handbuch für Reisende in Deutschland, Erster Theil: Oesterreich, Süd- und West-Deutschland 1852: La Suisse 1853: Handbuch für Reisende in Oesterreich 1855: Südbayern,