ABSTRACT
Suffering from territorial losses after the war Germany saw an increase in revisionist political and academic thinking from the 1920s, and geography scholars also played an important role in this in the Weimar Republic. It must be acknowledged that maps had gained special significance in the united German nation-state created in the second half of the nineteenth century as they served as a visual representation of this unity. 1 This “tradition” also became important in revisionist politics, 2 just like in Hungary. 3 One of the central, initial concepts of Germany, of the geographical existence of the German peoples, the Lebensraum (living space) originated from the founder of political geography, Friedrich Ratzel.
