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Old Posted Jul 9, 2014, 6:32 PM
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Originally Posted by New Brisavoine View Post
The last map at the bottom is a glance into the future. Judging from the density of people under 20 y/o, it looks like in this century, East Germany, which was the densest part of Germany before WW2, will become less than half as densely populated as West Germany, and less densely populated than Austria and Metropolitan France, whose densities were very low compared to the current East Germany in 1939.
Fascinating and I had no idea the East was once more densely populated. Really amazing when you look at the current sitaution. It makes sense though, because Berlin, Leipzig, Chemnitz, Dresden, Erfurt, Magdeburg, Rostock were all once more important.
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When looking at the last two maps, one can also question the choice of Berlin as the capital of the reunified Germany in the 1990s. Frankfurt would have been a more logical and practical choice.
Frankfurt would have never been seriously considered. Bonn was specifically chosen because it was a small city, so there would be no chance once reunification occured. If Frankfurt had been chosen for W. Germany then perhaps there would have been a small chance it would have been retaned, but the emotional pull of Berlin was extremely strong, even if the logic in a redrawn Germany was lacking.
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