Berlin als dreifache Grenzstadt [Berlin a Border State on Three Sides]
- Title:
- Berlin als dreifache Grenzstadt [Berlin a Border State on Three Sides]
- Alternate Title:
- Berlin a Border State on Three Sides
- Collection:
- Persuasive Maps: PJ Mode Collection
- Creator:
- Lange, Friedrich
- Date:
- 1937
- Posted Date:
- 2017-04-14
- ID Number:
- 1257.01
- Collection Number:
- 8548
- File Name:
- PJM_1257_01.jpg
- Style/Period:
- 1920 - 1939
- Subject:
- Between the Wars
Pictorial - Measurement:
- 18 x 14 (centimeters, height x width)
- Notes:
- This map was part of an important "atlas" published in 1937 as an instructional collection of suggestive maps. These model maps featured "simplistic design, a bare minimum of information . . . and a lack of supporting evidence for the claims made." Herb 1997, 91. In this case, Berlin is boldly characterized as a "Border State on Three Sides" because it is a mere 150 kilometers from Czechoslovakia to the south, Poland to the east and the Baltic to the north! This and other suggestive Nazi maps were reprinted in journals and "passed on to newspapers in copy-ready form" even before publication in atlas form. Ibid.
The author of this work was one of the leading figures in Nazi cartography, Dr. Dr. Friedrich Lange. (Lange had two doctoral degrees, and insisted on being described as "Dr. Dr." Herb 1997, 91.) The collection includes a number of Lange's maps: ID #1264 (87,545,000 Germans in Europe); ID #1286 (Map of German Culture in the West); ID #1257.01 (Berlin a Border State on Three Sides); ID #1257.02 (The Eastern Front German States); ID #2040 (Das ganze Deutschland soll es sein!)
For further information on the Collector’s Notes and a Feedback/Contact Link, see https://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/content/about-collection-personal-statement and https://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/content/feedback-and-contact - Source:
- Lange, Friedrich. 1937. Volksdeutsche Kartenskizzen. 2nd ed. Berlin: Volksbund fur da Deutschtum im Ausland, Wirtschaftsunternehmen. P. 25.
- Cite As:
- P.J. Mode collection of persuasive cartography, #8548. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Archival Collection:
- P.J. Mode collection of persuasive cartography
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- For important information about copyright and use, see http://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/copyright.