The Road to War, 1931–1941 · THE MAP IN JAN 1933

Map of Europe and Africa in January 1933

Hitler is handed the chancellery · road to WW2

Europe and Africa in January 1933: Hitler is handed the chancellery. The map shows who held what: Colonial empires & possessions, The aggressors (Japan, Germany, Italy), Democracies & powers fighting them.

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Map of Europe and Africa in January 1933 (road to WW2): Hitler is handed the chancellery. Colours show Colonial empires & possessions, The aggressors (Japan, Germany, Italy), Democracies & powers fighting them. — JAN 1933 · THE ROAD TO WAR, 1931–1941

These maps are reconstructed from published sources · Cliopatria v0.2.1 — dated political boundaries · United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — Hitler appointed chancellor, 30 January 1933 · IGM Fiume, 1:25,000, sheet53B II SE — boundary established in1924 · Natural Earth — physical reference geography · Yugoslavia (1929–1939) location map — international frontier and Adriatic coast · Treaty of Rome (1924), division of Fiume and west-bank boundary

Source details

Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. CC BY4.0 · Dated polity and constituent territory selections; campaign-dependent occupation overlays reconstructed separately.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — Hitler appointed chancellor, 30 January 1933. Historical chronology consulted; no source prose or artwork republished
Istituto Geografico Militare, Fiume (printed1946; 1927 survey with1931–1940 updates), reproduced by Istituto regionale per la storia della Resistenza e dell’Età contemporanea nel Friuli Venezia Giulia. Independent reconstruction from graticule coordinates and boundary observations; archive page reserves artwork rights.. Geographical-fact reconstruction; original archive artwork not distributed
Natural Earth. Public domain
NordNordWest/Wikipedia. Converted from the published SVG to WGS84; eastern Italian regional territory extracted. Source cites Velhagen & Klasings Großer Volksatlas (1938).. CC BY-SA 3.0 Germany
1924 agreement interpreted alongside the regional history institute and City of Rijeka’s explanation of the Donja/Gornja Drenova division.. Historical geographic facts; citation only

The source keeps the legacy name Weimar Republic for its 1933–1935 outline. The dated chapter assigns this unchanged geometry to the German Reich after Hitler became chancellor on 30 January 1933.

The eastern Italian frontier uses the published 1930s regional map and a 1924 Fiume boundary reconstruction. Source conquests after April 1941 remain separately dated.

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Layer records and reconstruction methods

What changes on the map

Germany (the Reich)

Neutral & unaligned → The aggressors (Japan, Germany, Italy)

The chapters of this moment

CH 3 — Hitler’s rise and German rearmament

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