Because soon you will notice that the cards in booster packs that you will get in the future, in German, their starting cards from this box, however in English.
Since the card is important when playing to keep secret from the enemy, which cards are used, they can not be combined with other cards the card from this box really. (See English maps on the back different from the German.)
The effort to return is too big for this few bucks, so we keep the box; but I was annoyed, I must say.
(Oh yes, that such cards are not educational value should be clear to everyone ... But we have not collected all cards as children and therefore had a lot of fun?)