Baedeker modern Baedekers under the catchphrase ""Wissen öffnet Welten"" ("Knowledge opens worlds"). The previous German editions had four main sections: "Background", "Tours", "Destinations from A to Z" and "Practical Information from A to Z". MairDumont added a fifth section in each guidebook entitled ""Erleben und Geniessen"" ("Experience and Enjoy"). These new Baedeker guides were the first such guidebooks to incorporate infographics. From the outset, Karl Baedeker recognised the importance of publishing his guides in English as well. His son Ernst had worked in London before joining Verlag Baedeker in 1859, and was entrusted with the task of preparing the first Baedeker
Baedeker Blitz Goebbels reported that Hitler intended to "repeat these raids night after night until the English are sick and tired of terror attacks" and that he "shared [Goebbels'] opinion absolutely that cultural centres, health resorts and civilian centres must be attacked... there is no other way of bringing the English to their senses. They belong to a class of human beings with whom you can only talk after you have first knocked out their teeth." The raids were referred to on both sides as "Baedeker raids", derived from a comment by a German propagandist. Baron Gustav Braun von Stumm, a spokesman