ABSTRACT
As demonstrated in the previous chapters, the overwhelming majority of the texts are set in Third Reich Germany. Yet the borders of the Reich expand and contract in accordance with the texts’ immediate needs. The books draw a disjointed and topsy-turvy map of the Third Reich with no territorial continuity. Some books reduce the border to include only certain regions of Germany, while in others the frontier takes in areas occupied by Germany during the war. In both cases this geographical selectivity serves to accentuate German suffering. Texts presenting diminished borders emphasize the great suffering of city dwellers under Allied bombardment, while cartographically generous texts depict areas from which German citizens were expelled, or areas of the Soviet Union that claimed the lives of many German soldiers.
