1937 Baedeker travel guide ; Wikimedia Commons
After the RAF attack on the lovely medieval city of Lübeck in March 1942, the Germans launched a campaign of air raids on historic British towns listed in the popular Baedeker travel guide. Included as targets were Canterbury, Exeter, Bath, Norwich, and York. The Nazi propagandist Baron Gustav Braun von Sturm declared, “We shall go out and bomb every building in Britain marked with three stars in the Baedeker guide.”