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What Germany Wants - Her Claims As Set Forth by Leaders of German Thought.
- Title:
- What Germany Wants - Her Claims As Set Forth by Leaders of German Thought.
- Alternate Title:
- What Germany Wants
- Collection:
- Persuasive Cartography: The PJ Mode Collection
- Creator:
- Stanford’s Geographical Establishment
- Other Creators:
- Roberts & Leete, Ltd. Lith.
- Date:
- 1917
- Posted Date:
- 2015-08-25
- ID Number:
- 1199.01
- Collection Number:
- 8548
- File Name:
- PJM_1199_01.jpg
- Style/Period:
- 1900 - 1919
- Subject:
- World War I
- Measurement:
- 73 x 108 (centimeters, height x width)
- Notes:
- An extraordinary wall map of the world, with blood red used to mark the areas that "Germany Wants." This map was originally prepared by the Observer section of the Sydney (Australia) Sun newspaper, and appeared is its edition of June 10, 1917, page 5. The date of the wall map is estimated; it could be 1918.
Germany's "Claims" are detailed in 36 statements from 23 "Leaders of German Thought." These range from former generals and well-known Pangermanists (particularly Otto Richard Tannenberg, author of "Grosse Deutschland", 1911) to the "son of a former Governor of Southwest Africa," someone "of German colonial Office," and several identified only by name. In December 1917, the official U.S. "Committee on Public Information" released a 157 page report along the same lines, "Conquest and Kultur: Aims of the Germans in Their Own Words." (Notestein 1917). (For more on the Committee, see Notes for ID #1192, "The Prussian Blot")
A version of this map was reproduced in a school atlas published by Stanford's, ID #1198.01. The caption, "What Germany Wants" was used on other English maps of the time. See Bryars 2014, 55.
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- 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.
