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Nazi Germany's Ambitions Made Clear.
Important pre-World War II mapping of Germany and its neighbors illustrating the oft-repeated claim that German borders should be expanded to encompass German-speaking populations in other countries. The map was published in Graz, Austria in 1938 by the Verlag der Alpenland Buchhandlung Südmark.
The map was almost certainly completed just after the Anschluss, which saw Germany take over Austria in March of 1938.
The map is somewhat more constrained compared with Arnold Hillen-Ziegfeld's 1938 map of all of Eastern and Central Europe: www.raremaps.com/gallery/detail/67949
The present map might represent an earlier iteration of that approach to propagandistic mapmaking, and perhaps the makers did not fully appreciate the scope of Nazi ambitions in Eastern Europe.
The map shows evolving German claims in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Denmark, France, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Italy, and Belgium.
![Drink Norden Kaffe [Germany]](https://storage.googleapis.com/raremaps/img/small/91604.jpg)
