i just found this very nice map of...

mats

Banned
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...

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And since Northrhine-Westphalia alone has about as much inhabitants as the Netherlands getting Lower Saxony too has also made the Dutch a minority in their own country.
 
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. :rolleyes:

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).
 
Some of the "translations" are kind of silly, e.g. Chemnitz in Polish would be Kamienica Saska, not "Chemnica"
 
Hmm, all former German names literally translated. Would be nice if it was without errors though.

Bremen likely stays Bremen in Dutch, Brejmen makes no sense at all

Probably the same for Hannover, though older Dutch does use a oo in some places where modern Dutch uses a o.

A real error though is Willemspoort for Wilhelmshaven, probably translated by an anglo-saxon. It should be Willemshaven. (i.e. Williamsport or Port William)

And most important of all(not even a mistranslation from German!) it's Antwerpen, not Anvers since it is Dutch-speaking dammit:mad:

Just noticed the rivers: Rijn & Weser in Dutch, no silly Wejser or Rhijn, and obviously the Meuse is called the Maas in Dutch. (and thus from the moment it crosses the Belgo-Dutch border)

Did anyone else notice that even German-speaking Switzerland got the names Frenchified or even latinised.
 

archaeogeek

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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)
 
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)

Actually, if we go by ethnic lines at the start of the Medieval Ages, Lübeck should go to Poland (it was founded by the Obodrites - a West Slavic tribe - as "Liubice"). ;)
 
I can see why Switzerland does not get anything, but the real loser there looks to be Belgium, which seems to get nothing out of the deal.
 

mats

Banned
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. :rolleyes:

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).

well, according to the place i pulled the map from, austria went to italy, but is not coloured as such apparently
 
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