How Nazis are transplanting Europe's Races. Holocaust/Generalplan Ost map 1942
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'How Nazis are transplanting Europe's Races—Axis Crimes Section of the Philadelphia Inquirer'
A powerful wartime propaganda map illustrating contemporary Allied attempts to understand Nazi racial policy in occupied Europe—while simultaneously revealing a profound misunderstanding of the nature of the Holocaust already underway. Produced for The Philadelphia Inquirer and dated on the reverse 22 September 1942, the map depicts Europe at the height of Axis territorial control, using arrows and statistics to visualise the forced migration, deportation, and so-called “repatriation” of ethnic groups under German rule. The accompanying text explains that “the chart above presents the available details of how the monstrous reshuffling of peoples is being carried out”, a phrase that is revealing both of growing awareness and of the limits of contemporary comprehension. By late 1942, reports of mass deportations, forced labour, and racial engineering under Generalplan Ost had reached the West, yet the full reality of the Holocaust had not yet been grasped. The map assumes large-scale relocation and exploitation of populations, rendering human suffering as arrows and numbers, rather than recognising the systematic, industrialised extermination that was already well advanced. Seen in this light, the map represents an early and incomplete effort to comprehend unprecedented crimes using familiar concepts of displacement and population transfer. Its didactic style reflects both the constraints of available information and the difficulty, at that moment, of imagining genocide on such a scale. As a historical document, it is deeply unsettling—not only for what it shows, but for what it cannot yet conceive—standing as a stark artefact of wartime perception prior to later, fuller revelation.
Size 35 x 26 cm | 13.5 x 10.0 inches
Date Published: Probably late 1942
Type: Vintage colour propaganda info map
Author: Pick-S
Publication: The Philadelphia Inquirer
Condition: Good |
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