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Visualizing World War II
If you’ve been reading this blog for any length of time, you’ll know that maps and history are two of my favorite things. I love history because I love learning about the vast panoply of the human …
We tend to blur many of the fine distinctions and territorial adjustments made by the NSDAP during this period, seeing everything as Allies, Axis, and/or Soviet, but issues like the independence of Slovakia and the cession of Carpatho-Ukraine to Hungary were of vital interest to participants at the time. Here the Soviets try and demonstrate to America what was happening there; the entire eastern seaboard occupied by a genocidal army, Rochester cut off and besieged for months, American soldiers fighting for every square inch of St. Louis as enemy tanks drive deep into the Southwest, tens of millions of refugees fleeing as the world ends around them. There is something surreal about seeing charts of German airborne landings in England, not presented in a speculative fiction novel, but in the respectable local paper of a small American city, alongside headlines like “County Youth, 19, Has Meningitis” and “Poultry Meeting at Maytown High.”
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