This map accompanied a 1919 pamphlet titled “Europe at the Abyss: Explaining the main provisions of the Versailles Treaty and its effects,” the introduction to which was dated June 1919, the very same month in which the Treaty of Versailles was signed.

The map highlighted in red the areas that the Treaty required Germany to cede immediately to neighboring countries without a plebiscite; in blue the areas for which the Treaty required a vote of inhabitants (a plebiscite); in green the Saar Valley, whose inhabitants could only vote in a plebiscite on their future after 15 years of rule by the League of Nations (which the map refers to as “foreign rule”); and in diagonal black lines the areas that victorious powers in World War I had occupied since the end of the war. The map also noted the losses to Germany of specific commodities produced in each area, including coal, iron, potash, cattle, milk, bread, potatoes, and butter.