Propaganda Map

http://www.bl.uk/collection-items/propaganda-map-war-national-industry-prussia

Political Propaganda maps come in very handy when a cartographer is trying to stir up the pot. This type of map is used frequently to emphasize threat, enhance support, or entice border disputes and have played a key role politics throughout history. As the saying goes a picture tells a thousand words and the political propaganda map above is telling the story of the eminent danger that Prussia presented in Europe and how the French were fighting to seek freedom for it's territories that had been given to the Germans 40 years prior. The map was generated in 1917 with the image of an octopus lingering over the French territories and creating an appearance that Prussia would use their expanding tentacles to spread over Europe.