Why Germany wants Peace—Berlin–Baghdad Pan-German war aims—Propaganda map 1918

£180

SKU: P-6-112248

'Why Germany Wants Peace Now—The PanGerman Plan as realised by War in Europe and in Asia'


An original First World War propaganda map explaining “Why Germany Wants Peace Now”. Rather than presenting German peace overtures as evidence of moderation, it argues that the Central Powers had already realised much of the Pangerman programme: a German-dominated bloc extending from the North Sea through the Balkans and Ottoman Empire towards Baghdad and the Persian Gulf. Heavy black lines trace projected routes eastwards to the Gulf, Egypt and beyond, offering access to Middle Eastern resources and imperial communications. The population table supplies the headline statistic: Germany now controlled 187,000,000 people, including 40.5 million in occupied territories. Adapted from The New Europe and circulated by the US Committee on Public Information, the map warned Americans that peace on these terms would consolidate German mastery rather than end its expansion—helping justify continued American participation until Germany was defeated.

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Size 22 x 27 cm | 8.5 x 10.5 inches

Date Published: 1918

Courtesy of the "New Europe" January 11 1917. This edition published January 1918

Type: Colour-printed folding persuasive and propaganda map

Author: Committee On Public Information

United States Committee on Public Information, issuer; C. S. Hammond & Co., New York, cartographer and printer; Wallace Notestein and Elmer E. Stoll, compilers of the source publication

Publication: Conquest and Kultur

Washington, D.C.: Committee on Public Information / U.S. Government Printing Office, Edition of January 1918. Wallace Notestein and Elmer E. Stoll, compilers, Conquest and Kultur: Aims of the Germans in Their Own Words, Red, White and Blue Series no. 5. Map by C. S. Hammond & Co., New York, after the map supplied by The New Europe, 11 January 1917

Condition: Fair |

Fair: Good. Original folds; a few small brown stains and handling marks, principally across Russia and Persia; light fold wear and surface creasing; margins intact. No significant tear or loss visible in the supplied photograph. Image-only assessment; verso not inspected. Please note any other blemishes on the scan prior to purchasing this picture. Please contact us if you would like to arrange to view this map. This is a folding map. There is nothing printed on the reverse side, which is plain

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