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Rearmament - Who Needs Security

Title:
Rearmament - Who Needs Security
Full Title:
Aufrüstung - Wer braucht Sicherheit [Rearmament - Who Needs Security] Aufrüstung [Rearmament] Die Fliegergefahr [The Air Raid Peril]
Collection:
Persuasive Maps: PJ Mode Collection
Creator(s):
Leers, Johann von, 1902-1965
Date:
1934
Date posted:
2015-08-25
ID Number:
1241.05
Identifier:
PJM_1241_05.jpg
Subject:
Between the Wars
Pictorial
Unusual Graphics/Text
Extent:
(cm, H x W) 23 x 15
Collector's Notes:
Two maps intended to show Germany's vulnerability to military attack and therefore to argue for relaxation of the restrictions on rearmament imposed by the Treaty of Versailles ("Who Needs Security"). For background on similar maps of the same period, see Notes to ID #1243.04 (Gauss). The top map shows the overall levels of forces arrayed against Germany. The lower one, "The Air Raid Peril", shows the ranges of aircraft from Poland, Czechoslovakia, France and Belgium overlaid on a map showing the centers of major industry in Germany.
Note:
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Source:
von Leers, Johann & Konrad Frenzel. 1934. Atlas zur deutschen Geschichte der Jahre 1914 bis 1933. Leipzig: Velhagen & Klasing. 40.
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About the collection

This is a collection of “persuasive” cartography: maps intended primarily to influence the opinion of the viewer -- to send a message -- rather than to communicate geographic information. The collection reflects a variety of persuasive tools: allegorical, satirical and pictorial mapping; selective inclusion or exclusion; unusual projections, graphics and text; and intentional deception. Maps in the collection address a wide range of messages: religious, political, military, commercial, moral and social.