Cornell University Library Digital Collections
Das Netz der Roten Spinne [The Web of the Red Spider]
- Title:
- Das Netz der Roten Spinne [The Web of the Red Spider]
- Alternate Title:
- The Web of the Red Spider
- Collection:
- Persuasive Cartography: The PJ Mode Collection
- Creator:
- Signal Magazine
- Date:
- 1943
- Posted Date:
- 2017-04-14
- ID Number:
- 1313.01
- Collection Number:
- 8548
- File Name:
- PJM_1313_01.jpg
- Style/Period:
- 1940 - 1959
- Subject:
- Ethnocentrism
World War II
Unusual Projection
- Measurement:
- 25 x 26 on sheet 36 x 27 (centimeters, height x width)
- Notes:
- A propaganda map showing the world communist movement as a spider web with ties around the globe. It was published in Signal, an official magazine of the German Wehrmacht.
For other Nazi maps attacking communism, see, e.g., ID #2139, "A Victory of Communism in Germany Means War! (1933); #2031, "Vermin" (1934).
The spider and its web have been widely used in political maps, for example, by Germany to describe the British and Soviets; by the U.S. to describe the Nazis; and by the Dutch to describe the Japanese . Search > "spider."
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:
- Signal Magazine, September 1, 1943
- 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.
