Beanspruchte 1929 kulturelle deutsche Grenzen

Vgh so groß

Honestly, if you only look at the fully Black areas it’s surprisingly modest for the time.

a map of the fatherland!

Ahh, AfD daily posting

Seems like someone is playing too much paradox games

Tbf, the fully black areas connected directly to Germany were mostly correct… the rest tho..

I just realized that, purely in terms of land area, Poland suffered a bigger loss than Germany. Huge swathes of former eastern Poland went to the USSR.

One of the problems that we have today is that we have difficulty to grasp what was going on back then in terms of „Cultural Borders“
Take Kafka for instance, he was Check, but he never spoke it. He wrote in German, he spoke Idisch (German Dialect) at home, and German with his Berlinner (schicksar) girlfriend.
Things were strange back then…

Would be great if cities were shown

According to geographer Hans-Dietrich Schultz, the map-maker Albrecht Pench was a Germany chauvinist.

REF: [Deutsche Geografen als Kriegstreiber im Ersten Weltkrieg: Uferloses Sehnen nach Macht](https://www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/uferloses-sehnen-nach-macht-5175358.html) [GOOGLE TRANSLATE: [German geographers as warmongers in the First World War: Boundless longing for power](https://www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/uferloses-sehnen-nach-macht-5175358.html)]

Tnd the map was published at a time when
All nations have myths that don’t withstand scrutiny. Rapid chauvinism just removes all polite euphemisms to make those myths emphatic.

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* Ludwig Van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 (1824) uses Friedrich Schiller’s 1785 poem „An die Freude“ (Ode to Joy) for the libretto of the famous chorale. This includes the line „Alle Menschen werden Brüder Wo dein sanfter Flügel weilt.“ [„All people become brothers, Where thy gentle wing abides.“] „All people“ doesn’t stop at national borders.
* The map was from 1929 was drawn after Hitler had published „Mein Kampf“ (1925) with its call for „Lebensraum“ and just as German capitalism was increasing its support for the Nazis in case a dictatorship was needed.. Was Hitler part of „German culture“? What about the Germans who opposed Nazi?
* It’s notable that Switzerland and Lichtenstein remained neutral during the Nazi regime.

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WSWS: [The Myth of “Ordinary Germans”: A Review of Daniel Goldhagen’s „Hitler’s Willing Executioners“](https://www.wsws.org/en/special/library/russian-revolution-unfinished-twentieth-century/15.html)

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FWIW: Wikipedia summarizes Hans-Dietrich Schultz as follows:

>For [Hans-Dietrich Schultz](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Dietrich_Schultz), Penck is one of those war-loving geographers who interpreted Germany’s central location and the lack of natural borders in the West and East as a compulsion to expand. In doing so, he was able to build on [considerations from Friedrich Ratzel’s](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Ratzel) work „Political Geography“ from 1897. Already during the First World War, Penck had focused special attention on Russia in the hope of pushing Russia back to a line from the [White Sea](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wei%C3%9Fes_Meer) via [Lake Peipus](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peipussee) to the mouth of the [Dnieper](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnepr). On this side, he imagined [satellite states](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellitenstaat) with their own administration, but under German influence. Schultz quotes Penck from his inaugural speech as rector of [the University of Berlin](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humboldt-Universit%C3%A4t_zu_Berlin) in the fall of 1917 as saying that this was „the minimum of what we need for the future.“ Penck’s goal was „that we keep from the conquered land what is necessary as a living space for our German people, that we receive a [colonial possession](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolonialismus), large and rich enough to provide us with the indispensable raw materials of the [tropics](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropen).“ 

>According to Schultz, the idea of the imperative need for expansion also determined Penck’s theory of the „people’s and cultural soil“, published in 1925. With regard to [National Socialism](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalsozialismus), it had proven to be tremendously powerful.

SOURCE: [Deutsche Geografen als Kriegstreiber im Ersten Weltkrieg: Uferloses Sehnen nach Macht](https://www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/uferloses-sehnen-nach-macht-5175358.html)

>[Albrecht Penck – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albrecht_Penck)

Bye-bye Switzerland. We have no clue what you’re saying when you’re talking in your native dialect, but I guess we belong to the same people now.

missing the wider Netherlands, I recall some maps like this even included burgundy and Lorraine and the 1500 border