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Plate 1. Compare the representation of German minority distribution patterns in the west with that of the Ukrainian minority in the east. The German population is depicted by a distinct sign system that is adjusted to emphasize the German border to Congress Poland, while the Ukrainian minority appears as a vague wash of color that seeps over the border. Plate 2. Dietrich Schäfer, “Länder und Völkerkarte Europas (Berlin: Reimer, 1916). Image reproduced courtesy of the Earth Sciences and Map Library, University of California, Berkeley. [54.242.165.255] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 14:06 GMT) Plate 3. The map’s legend includes Kalmucks, Mordvins, and “Kutzowalachen” (Aromanians); while Sorbs, Kashubes, and Jews are all missing. Category X is “Poles with German admixture.” Plate 4. In the 1914 edition of the school atlas, the map of ethnic and language distributions in the German- Polish borderlands employ a consistent sign system that indicates Polish majorities in the area that would later become the “Polish Corridor .” Diercke Schulatlas für höhere Lehranstalten: Mittelausgabe (Braunschweig : Georg Westermann, 1914), 144. Plate 5. Beginning in the mid- 1920s, the sign system used to depict population distributions in the borderlands steadily changed. In this 1928 edition, we see the Polish regional majorities visually erased through the use of a dual sign system that changes at the former German-Polish border. Diercke Schulatlas für höhere Lehranstalten (Braunschweig: Georg Westermann, 1928), 144. ...