joost
nice

so were these thin red striped territories
being within neither the french nor american orbits
yet behind the allied front
somewhat of both or neither or all allied countries or what

& anyone who is lost
look under photos not files
& not alphabetically but the final item

--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "P. Joost Lemmens"
<joostik@y...> wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> Under "Files" I have posted a small excerpt from the
> map "Mitteleuroppa nach dem 1. Weltkrieg" [Central Europe after

the

> 1. World War]; Grosser historischer Weltatlas, III. Teil, Neuzeit;
> Munich 1967.
>
> (Picture name "Flaschenhals".)
>
> The "Flaschenhals" or bottleneck is the red-striped part between
> Koblenz (yellow-striped US-zone) and Wiesbaden (purple-striped

French

> zone). The legenda notes "Territories occupied after the

conclusion

> of the Treaty of Versailles, 1920-1925" for all these red-striped
> territories.
>
> From this map the zone appears to have been broad enough to

contain

> at least some road connections to the rest of Germany. OTOH one
> should remember that this was a period of weak central government

and

> almost total anarchy in some parts of Germany.