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Thursday, January 19, 20061137719700
Dreaming of a Lost Empire - or - the Germans are Planning Something
Catholicgauze found a nifty site of old road maps -- including some nice German ones...
From the 1950s!
And 1970s!
A more serious point: one hears complaints about supposed Japanese "remilitarization," but Japan wasn't mapping her lost Empire a generation after she lost it.
View the rest of the travel maps
19:15 Posted by Dan tdaxp in Europe, Geography, History | Permalink | Comments (3) | Email this | Tags: germany, maps, central germania, far-eastern germany, prussia
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Oooh. Cool find. Don't blame the Germans though, their land was stolen after WWI unjustly and they just want it back. I love meeting older people here who tell me they're from "the east." When you ask "East Germany?" they say no and smile. Then the great conversation begins. Chirol's future father-in-law is from the Sudetenland!
Posted by: Chirol | Friday, January 20, 2006
Definitely, map props to Catholicgauze.
I remember (I think it was in the Atlantic Monthly) reading an article which described the hopeful 1950s-is or refering to the GDR as "Middle Germany"
One wonders how better history could have turned out if Wilhelm II would have concentrated on building a German nation (that is, Union with the Empire of Austria), and letting the Balkans fend for themselves.
Or, even better, not dismissing Bismarck and concentrating on building a european economic community
Posted by: Dan tdaxp | Friday, January 20, 2006
Hmm...Interesting... Any chance that novelist Joe Buff has seen these?
http://joebuff.com/
Posted by: Jayson | Saturday, January 21, 2006