ABSTRACT
New types of cartographic representation were developed in the aftermath of the Paris peace treaties to offer improved scientific arguments for their revision. One group of maps developed out of the German research on falsifications in foreign maps and led to the production of more accurate cartographic methods, such as Penck’s version of the dot map. These maps were based on language or nationality (see Chapter 3). The other major group of maps focused on alternative concepts of national territory and was guided by the premise that neither language-nor nationality-based maps would suffice to reclaim all lost territories. Instead, these maps chose spatial concepts of national territory, such as the geo-organic concept, the negative definition of national territory, and the concept of Volks-und Kulturboden (see Chapter 4).120
