Why does it look like Britain is sticking its fingers in French territory here, maybe thats just me
Kirmaxi on
Weren’t Potrugal and Spain neutral during the war. Why would Germany take their colonies?
MrCookie147 on
What about Spain and Portugal?!
LurkerInSpace on
It is worth mentioning that these would probably have been laid out as claims to bargain with Britain in the event of a victory on the continent. Germany still wouldn’t have been able to do anything about Britain (or America), so what Germany would presumably do is demand colonial concessions in exchange for leniency towards France.
icywind90 on
Fuck colonialism
Whoisjoe2009 on
Why would the ottoman empire get christian Ethiopia but not muslim Somalia and Eritrea
Such_Efficiency_9296 on
Imagine how prosperous africa would have been if this had worked out…. one can only dream.
[This is the actual map from the actual book.](https://i.imgur.com/kDxG4qA.png) Basically it shows that Western Sahara remained non-French, as does Ethiopia. And they don’t mention any sort of wiggly Italian Libya.
It was not a political party (though it formed one in 1917), it was not in the government (though it had “considerable influence”) and the maps they made did not represent German plans (To the point that the treaty that the Germans actually signed with the Soviet Union, as harsh as it was, differed from [what these people proposed](https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/3mshse/1826_x_1325_germanys_future_1917_british/) (and ultimately what Hitler and the Nazis tried to achieve)).
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Why does it look like Britain is sticking its fingers in French territory here, maybe thats just me
Weren’t Potrugal and Spain neutral during the war. Why would Germany take their colonies?
What about Spain and Portugal?!
It is worth mentioning that these would probably have been laid out as claims to bargain with Britain in the event of a victory on the continent. Germany still wouldn’t have been able to do anything about Britain (or America), so what Germany would presumably do is demand colonial concessions in exchange for leniency towards France.
Fuck colonialism
Why would the ottoman empire get christian Ethiopia but not muslim Somalia and Eritrea
Imagine how prosperous africa would have been if this had worked out…. one can only dream.
France (France)
Source?
Central Africa would’ve been so lucky.
Source map: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Germany_claims_in_africa_1917.jpg
Same terrible map, almost the exact same title, I suppose I’ll post the same comment [I made before](https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/17rizgg/germanys_plan_for_africa_after_ww1/):
This map is incorrect and poorly researched.
[This is the actual map from the actual book.](https://i.imgur.com/kDxG4qA.png) Basically it shows that Western Sahara remained non-French, as does Ethiopia. And they don’t mention any sort of wiggly Italian Libya.
[Germany’s Future is a British book](https://digitalcollections.ucalgary.ca/CS.aspx?VP3=DamView&VBID=2R3BXZO6GVWPH&PN=23&DocRID=2R3BF1FU27BQP&FR_=1&W=1536&H=703) which is a translation of “Deutschlands Zukunft” (which means the same). [That is a book](https://books.google.pt/books?id=LpytAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=pt-PT&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false) that was written by the Alldeutscher Verband, or the [Pan-German League](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-German_League) in English. In essence: World War I Nazis or German supremacists.
It was not a political party (though it formed one in 1917), it was not in the government (though it had “considerable influence”) and the maps they made did not represent German plans (To the point that the treaty that the Germans actually signed with the Soviet Union, as harsh as it was, differed from [what these people proposed](https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/3mshse/1826_x_1325_germanys_future_1917_british/) (and ultimately what Hitler and the Nazis tried to achieve)).
Another very poor example of Map Porn.
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(France)