ABSTRACT
This chapter first presents a case study of interwar Germany where a nationalist mapping campaign lent crucial support to Nazi expansionism. This lays the empirical groundwork for the next step, which critically engages with the theoretical literature in cartography and re-evaluates the dominant conceptual approach that focuses on the unique design and grammar of persuasive maps. The chapter focuses on the organization and ideology of persuasive maps. It discusses social movement theory to better understand how non-state actors are able to develop orchestrated campaigns such as the one in interwar Germany and interrogates whether cartographers need to reconsider the association of persuasive maps with old-style geopolitics and the political Right. Maps of the German cultural imprint and of threats to the German geo-organism were widely disseminated in the middle 1920s to early 1930s in the Weimar Republic.
