mats
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germany split up, i got it from this site (with a lot of cool maps):http://bigthink.com/blogs/strange-maps
included with translated names...
included with translated names...
Poor Switzerland not getting anything.
Also, are the Czechs now a minority?
Nah, I think they're still about 55% or so.I think the Poles are probably a minority too.
And the french names are similarly nonsensical; names in Alsace are only transliterated unless they have to do with features like rivers and mountains. I suspect the danish name of Lübeck is also not that. (It's given as Lybæk on wikipedia but it seems too conveniently IPA)
I think this is actually derived from the mad ideas of Theodore Kaufman, who wrote a hate pamphlet called "Germany must perish!" in 1941, where he basically blamed Germany for all ills of the world and called for the extermination of the Germans through mass-sterilization. Now, the sadly ironic part is that Kaufman, being Jewish, thereby produced a piece of propaganda for the Nazis that was better than anything they could have come up with.
Anyways, a major depature from the actual Kaufman map (or "Kaufman Plan", as the Nazi propaganda called it, which ludicrous because it never was the plan of anybody except inside Kaufman's head), is that Austria is a separate country on the map (though for a weird reason, it has it's names written in Italian rather than German). In contrast to that, Kaufman envisioned the Austrians to be eradicated too, and the former Austrian lands to be gobbled up (by Switzerland and Czechoslovakia, for the greater part).