I'd hazard a guess that the intent was to make some of those nations weak by building ethnic unrest into their core composition, thereby making France stronger by comparison.
Proposals and War Aims That Didn't Happen Map Thread
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I'd hazard a guess that the intent was to make some of those nations weak by building ethnic unrest into their core composition, thereby making France stronger by comparison.
I made a map of Iraq's goals for the Iran Iraq war: to annex the Khuzestan province of Iran (which had an Arab population) and become the leading gulf state.
Cool, here's my version of Winston Churchill's, um, interesting plan for post-war Germany:
Ah, yes, the Danubian Confederation. IIRC there also was a variant which proposed getting Saxony to join as well, which is even more "interesting".
Does anyone have maps like this but for World War 2, showing the desires of the main powers?
Or a map of the proposed Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact as opposed to what actually happened?
There is a Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact one on the first page of this thread.
Talking of world war II, how can we forget totentanz0's maps of the demented (and mutually contradictory) maximal war aims of the Axis powers?
Italy, for instance.
http://totentanz0.deviantart.com/art/Nuovo-Impero-Romano-302105622
Italy, for instance.
http://totentanz0.deviantart.com/art/Nuovo-Impero-Romano-302105622
Perhaps someone should try a map for their pre-war thing with Kuwait. They wanted the northern most island ceded to Iraq, with the lower one leased to them.
This needs to be turned into worlda patches. It's a fascinating bit of propaganda ^^
I could give a crack at it later today. I'd just need a translation.
I'd say the partitioning parties are the following:
- France: England/UK in Normandy-Brittany, Germany in the east, Italy in the southeast and Spain in the southwest
- Italy: France in Piedmont and Sardinia, Austria in Veneto, Yugoslavia in the east (around Ancona), and Greece in the south including Sicily
- UK: Norway in Scotland, Germany in Northern England, France in southern England and the United States in Ireland
- USA: Japan in the west, Mexico west of the Pecos River, Spain in the south and the UK (or rather Canada, most likely) in the northeast
- Germany: Denmark in Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg, Poland in the east, Czechoslovakia in Saxony and France in what remains in the west (which I find weird but well...)
Well, there also was that piece of French propaganda which suggested giving the lands east of the Oder-Neisse border to Russia, so I guess that idea came about in those days.
Oooh, Nazi propoganda in the U.S. Can't find much of that around these days. That website good for finding old books and scans?
Oooh, Nazi propoganda in the U.S. Can't find much of that around these days. That website good for finding old books and scans?