COMMENTS ON            
 
                                                            
 
                   A SPECIAL MAP OF GERMANY                 
 
                                                            
 
 
External boundaries are shown as of 1937, except that  
                                                            
 
                1. East Prussia is omitted.                 
 
                                                            
 
  2. The preponderantly German area on the northwest tip of Czechoslovakia  
        (line running from Chomutov to the Bohemian forest Just west of   
                Pilsen) is included within Germany.         
 
                                                            
 
  All states (Laender) within Germany, except Prussia, have been left   
                         unshaded.                          
 
                                                            
 
 following parts of Prussia have been identified separate sh
 
                                                            
 
                     1. Rhineland Province                  
 
                                                            
 
          2. The Ruhr industrial area in Westphalia         
 
                                                            
 
                          3. Hanover                        
 
                                                            
 
     4. Brandenburg and Pomerania east of the Oder River.   
 
                                                            
 
 
    The instruction was to show the Germanized Slav sandy plain of   
Brandenburg. The sandy plain covers a wide area, extending as far west as   
Magdeburg, somewhat north of Berlin, east to the Polish frontier, and south   
to a line running from Dresden to Breslau. All of Fomerania may be regarded   
                      as sandy plain.                       
 
                                                            
 
 
 The area of Germanized Slav population is subject to interpretation.   
As late as 900 A D the preponderantly Slav region extened to the Elbe River.  
Practically all of Pomerania, Brandenburg, Silesia and the Kingdom of Saxony  
are still inhabited by a stock whose anthropological characteristics are   
ly Slav, and a few Slavic speaking villages are still found