Errors on maps

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 (...

In 1987 a kid from Istanbul could learn from geography lesson that one of most western Asian states is Poland and Romania. Polish neighbours are Soviet Union, large Czechoslovakia (must have conquered Hungary and north Serbia from Yugoslavia, and large part of no-man's land on the western and nothern border. Polish territory? Eastern Germany? Just in case, if something change, to have not to print new maps for children? PS. Did Turkey respect Yalta and Potsdam conferences rules? Any idea? This image comes from Illkokul Atlasi. Istanbul, 1987. Straight talk In 1987 Poland bordered (to the west) the German Democratic Republic (GDR; German: Deutsche Demokratische Republik or DDR) (to the south) Czechoslovakia (to the north-east and east) the Soviet Union After the WWII Poland's borders were shifted westwards, pushing the eastern border to the Curzon Line. Meanwhile, the western border was moved to the Oder-Neisse line. Also Poland gained southern part of East Prussia, ...