This is one of a series of maps (ID ##2326.01-.04) illustrating a book published in London in 1943 by a Polish lawyer and historian, Marian Jedlicki, “A Thousand Years of German Aggression.” Jedlicki had fled his country after the Nazi invasion and wrote during the war under the pseudonym “S.M. Marvey.”
The aim of his book was “to call attention to the continuity of German imperialism” and to “reveal the true aspect of German lust for dominance.” He argues that German aggression since the 12th century could not be “justified and explained by biological, geographical, economic or cultural necessity.” It was instead “psychological . . . . dictated by atavistic lust of conquest for conquest’s sake,” the product of “the old cult of conquest and the old cult of brute force.” (Introduction, pp. 9-10.)
