What Germany Wants
- Title:
- What Germany Wants
- Full Title:
- What Germany Wants - Her Claims As Set Forth by Leaders of German Thought.
- Collection:
- Persuasive Maps: PJ Mode Collection
- Creator:
- Stanford’s Geographical Establishment
- Other Creator(s):
- Roberts & Leete, Ltd. Lith.
- Publication Year:
- 1917
- Date posted:
- 2015-08-25
- ID Number:
- 1199.01
- Identifier:
- PJM_1199_01.jpg
- Subject:
- World War I
- Extent:
- (cm, H x W) 73 x 108
- Collector's Notes:
- An extraordinary wall map of the world, with blood red used to mark the areas that "Germany Wants." Date estimated|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. - Note:
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- References:
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- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Archival Collection:
- P.J. Mode collection of persuasive cartography
- Rights:
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