Did you just color every place in which at least one german lived? Because thats and extreme overestimation that can be disproven by german imperial censuses.
InhabitTheWound on
If you made similar map with Poles it would overlap with Germany in similar manner.
Any_Fennel_4180 on
Too many Germans in Poland
c_monies_ on
No Polish corridor then? Brave statement!
Rubert112 on
The position of Mainz is completly off
real_hungarian on
i know what you are
Popular-Cobbler25 on
That’s crazy good!!! Have you considered making alternate history maps?
_Plateosaurus_ on
I don’t know about other areas, but the situation isn’t so simple when it comes to Moselle (the red area in France between Metz, Luxembourg and Saarbrücken at the very left of the map).
Most Germans in this region arrived after the 1870 Franco-Prussian War to seize the land, the German government offering them numerous incentives to encourage them to settle there. That’s how some of my ancestors arrived. But it stayed a multi-ethnic territory until the first world-war. While wandering around the red zone, you could easily pass through a German village, then come across a French village, then a village that was 50% German and 50% French… The situation was even more complicated in industrial towns such as those in the Fensch Valley, where towns were divided into distinct ethnic communities (French neighborhoods, German neighborhoods, and even Italian immigrant neighborhoods in Gandrange, the town where my family comes from).
Overall, the ethnic German population was smaller than the ethnic French population, but this varied from place to place. Please note that what I am saying refers specifically to Moselle, not Alsace (being from Moselle myself, I don’t know what it was like in Alsace).
After World War I, the majority of ethnic Germans in Moselle acculturated themselves to “convert” to French culture (this entitled them to various benefits from the French government). Most abandoned German at home in favor of French, changed religions (Protestant Germans converted to Catholicism), and some even went so far as to Frenchify their names (in my family, first names were Frenchified but not our last name, which remained German).
This phenomenon took place even before the period described by this map, so I really wonder why this region appears in red between 1937 and 1939. During the period in question, very few people who considered themselves German remained in Moselle. Of course, Nazi propaganda continued to regard this region as historically German, but this was mainly in order to recover the coal and iron mines.
Forsaken1887 on
Beautiful map as always, but I believe that the amount of ethnic Germans in East Prussia and in the Danzig corridor is way too overestimated. Also, the map that you used for reference is a German map made in the nazi period, so more than probably made for propaganda purposes and based on false informations.
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Dortmurt… junge, du bist so peinlich, das ist kaum auszuhalten. Komplett auf Nazischeiße hängen geblieben
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bro ur obsessed with nazi germany what the hell
Did you just color every place in which at least one german lived? Because thats and extreme overestimation that can be disproven by german imperial censuses.
If you made similar map with Poles it would overlap with Germany in similar manner.
Too many Germans in Poland
No Polish corridor then? Brave statement!
The position of Mainz is completly off
i know what you are
That’s crazy good!!! Have you considered making alternate history maps?
I don’t know about other areas, but the situation isn’t so simple when it comes to Moselle (the red area in France between Metz, Luxembourg and Saarbrücken at the very left of the map).
Most Germans in this region arrived after the 1870 Franco-Prussian War to seize the land, the German government offering them numerous incentives to encourage them to settle there. That’s how some of my ancestors arrived. But it stayed a multi-ethnic territory until the first world-war. While wandering around the red zone, you could easily pass through a German village, then come across a French village, then a village that was 50% German and 50% French… The situation was even more complicated in industrial towns such as those in the Fensch Valley, where towns were divided into distinct ethnic communities (French neighborhoods, German neighborhoods, and even Italian immigrant neighborhoods in Gandrange, the town where my family comes from).
Overall, the ethnic German population was smaller than the ethnic French population, but this varied from place to place. Please note that what I am saying refers specifically to Moselle, not Alsace (being from Moselle myself, I don’t know what it was like in Alsace).
After World War I, the majority of ethnic Germans in Moselle acculturated themselves to “convert” to French culture (this entitled them to various benefits from the French government). Most abandoned German at home in favor of French, changed religions (Protestant Germans converted to Catholicism), and some even went so far as to Frenchify their names (in my family, first names were Frenchified but not our last name, which remained German).
This phenomenon took place even before the period described by this map, so I really wonder why this region appears in red between 1937 and 1939. During the period in question, very few people who considered themselves German remained in Moselle. Of course, Nazi propaganda continued to regard this region as historically German, but this was mainly in order to recover the coal and iron mines.
Beautiful map as always, but I believe that the amount of ethnic Germans in East Prussia and in the Danzig corridor is way too overestimated. Also, the map that you used for reference is a German map made in the nazi period, so more than probably made for propaganda purposes and based on false informations.
Dortmurt… junge, du bist so peinlich, das ist kaum auszuhalten. Komplett auf Nazischeiße hängen geblieben