"Great" (horrible but fascinating) . Not only a nazi school atlas, but a nazi atlas nazi vocabulary in the title who tries to explain history entirely through nazi ideology.
Return of Horrible Educational Maps
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"Great" (horrible but fascinating) . Not only a nazi school atlas, but a nazi atlas nazi vocabulary in the title who tries to explain history entirely through nazi ideology.
As a side effect the map also explains how the Nazis could define anyone who was willing (or desperate) enough to ally with them as 'honorary aryans' and such, they could easily get some crackpot nazi archaeologist finding 'evidence' that the nation and people of XYZ actually descended from some germanic tribe after all.
So the second Africa is inexcusable, but maybe North America is only backwards because it's on the other side of the globe. I mean, that doesn't explain why there's no South America, but it's still better than a backwards North America.
Am I the only person who finds this somewhat threatening?
Mainly because of the Soon at the bottom. Like they're saying this is what the world will soon look like.
Yes, this is a beautiful example of the Gleichschaltung of the society. They even exported this to the occupied countries. I have a Dutch school atlas from 1941 that shows exactly the same image. On the same page there's also a version of this one:
A small state threatens Germany.
Alternative facts are nothing new.
Ignoring all the other inaccuracies, what exactly is “Ak.” supposed to be by Armenia?
Armenian Christianity, as in the Armenian Apostolic Church.
Um, I will probably sound silly, but, apart from not showing the Muslims in Albania and Yugoslavia, what's wrong with this map?
The protestant/catholic distribution in Germany was never such a simple line (not to forget Northern Ireland, had there been such a clear divide things would never have gotten so messy as they did OTL) but I'm willing to assume that they just wanted to simplify things.
However, for a map of the 1960s it shows an awful lot of protestant areas east of Oder/Neisse.
They may have been assuming religoin stayed smewhat the same as before the Soviets plowed through. And in general I would say most schoolmaps were maybe on this level back until maybe twenty years back at most. It is odd to call the Eastern Orthodox Greek Catholic, but maybe some Norwegians just used that term back then, like how they used Mohammadism.
The confessional situation in South Germany is faaaar more complicated than depicated in this map. Some areas which are catholic/protestant are simply wrong. (For example Franconia is (as far as I know) more Protestant, Württemberg largely Protestant, while the South of Baden is Catholic).
College level courses have awful textbook maps, my history book last year had several incorrect maps, some things simple, some not
