Travel by Autobahn in 1978

Ich bin ein Berliner, said once prominent politician (BTW later killed, but not in spite of this funny sentence).
Ich und meine beliebte Helga will leave Berlin for a holiday trip to eastern Prussia to the lakes to our former Haus in Lyck. Has anything changed? Why Autobahn has to be ending 80 km from Berlin? Why does Stettin is named as 'Szczecin', und Danzig sounds also barbarian... Hmmm. Everything changed. There is no Elbing, Allenstein, Lyck, but Elblag, Olsztyn, Elk. There is something wrong with this map, Helga!!!


Luckily we didn't buy train tickets to Konigsberg to old Tante Leni...

Straight talk
On this 1978 map we may see the old pre-1939 Poland-Germany borders. There are only German names of Polish cities outside the Polish pre-WWII borders. Similar in Russian part of Konigsberg area (Kalingradskaja oblast'). It could be the problem for German young travellers, but not for the elder, especially when they might remember those cities from their past (like the couple from the story above)...

As presented in previous entry, West Germany did not respect fully after-WWII German borders. Hence German pre-90's maps could present both present-day and pre-WWII borders.

German Google Maps in 1978 would be similar to the picture below (presented in the same atlas):


Touring Atlas 77-78. Mairs Geographischer Verlag, Stuttgart 1978

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