WWII Memorabilia

In WWII, why did the British think the Germans didn't have maps of the British Isles?

They painted over road signs and removed the place names of stations. At the same time they provided airmen with maps of continental Europe on silk, so that, if they were shot down, they could find their way home, or at least to a safe haven.
Fine, but surely that would have applied to British airmen as well?

It was a half baked idea. I was once with an historian in the 80's who took me to a place in Somerset where a whole truck load of road signs had been dumped around October 1939. I'm sure that lots of English people would have found it hard to get around.
There must have been thousands of copies of British roadmaps in Germany by the outbreak of war, as for the times there was quite a lot of tourism between the 2 countries. So had there been an invasion I don't think the lack of roadsigns would have slowed Hitler down very much.
The same historian showed me a small poster that was displayed everywhere in june 1940 entitled 'invasion' advising people that if they should come upon invading german forces to invite them straightaway to the nearest cop shop or council office, completely at odds with the stuff they taught us at school about fighting them on the beaches etc

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