Map of the German Election of 1932

German Election of 1932
Originally uploaded by halobrien.

jrittenhouse just pointed to a page full of links of maps of the shorelines during the most recent ice age and other paleoclimatology.

Being the strange holographic artifact my memory is, this reminded me of a map I saw some time ago. Previous attempts to find it again have been unsuccessful, but this time my google-fu is strong. I found the original post at Davos Newbies where I first saw the map. The post Lance Knobel points to appears to be gone. I found a higher resolution copy at CatholicApologetics.net.

Here's how to read the map: The higher a district is in 3-D effect, the more catholic it is; the flatter, the more protestant. The redder a district is, the higher the vote percentage for the NSDAP (more popularly known as the Nazis); the greener, the lower a vote percentage.

What this would appear to show is that NSDAP support was strongly driven by sectarianism. However, I don't have the original source, so I can't say how solid that conclusion may be, or the validity of the data (alas).

Also interesting to note is how the former DDR, or East Germany, was almost wholly protestant, and almost wholly NSDAP.

I'm mostly putting this into Flickr, and then blogging it, in an effort to rescue the data and the map, which I think appears to be well done.

Also recommended: the Strange Maps blog.