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 Herbert Warren Wind, had spent a considerable amount of time at the contemporary Baedeker publishers in Germany, researching the history of the firm. He gave the following account, related by Gisbert von Vincke, a German Shakespearen scholar, of the famous "Milan Cathedral" story, which has acquired a legendary status of its own, because of its manifold variations: On descending from the roof, Baedeker reversed the pea-transferring process, thus ensuring that there was no error in his calculations. The number of peas multiplied by 20 plus any steps remaining had given him the correct count. A few years after Karl Baedeker