One account of how the Gomberg Map came to light claims it was:
“[…] discovered by Helen Somers in a window in Philadelphia during World War II. It was completed in October 1941, before Pearl Harbor, was printed in bright colors by a cartographer named Maurice Gomberg in Philadelphia in 1942, and was displayed in his store window. Helen Somers immediately recognized the significance of the map and purchased several. At least a few original copies are still in existence, including one in the Library of Congress in Washington, DC.”
It looks as if somebody else made a colored hand-drawing of an outline of the map for that story. The story and the drawing are from here:
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_nwo06.htm [Also in the Wayback.]
Post-War New World Map (cartoon version)
Other links showing the Gomberg Map:
(These links are active on 21 September 2010)
Can you read these? Would be great to have a translation in English or in French of the discussion on these pages, which are currently available in the Wayback Machine:
http://homepage.interaccess.com/~netpol/POLISH/public/NieZaniechano.html [Expired. See Wayback.]
http://homepage.interaccess.com/~netpol/POLISH/historia/41pkt.html [Expired. See Wayback.]
Afterword:
Who is Helen Somers? Helen is described this way by PhreedomPhan in a post of 06 April 2012 at Lost Liberty1 (“Designs for Destruction”):
Ed Balajeski started fighting Big Brother when he got out of the Marines after WWII and fought most of his adult life. He was the protegé of a Philadelphia woman, Helen Somers who fought Big Bro most of her adult life. She was one of the original America First group. Ed inherited much of his documentation from Helen and expanded greatly on that himself. My blog is an introductory course. Get your Masters and Doctorates on Regionalism at Ed’s site. His Pennsylvania Crier newsletter files include information he received from colleagues in many parts of the country. Keep in mind that there was no internet at the time.
http://www.pennsylvaniacrier.com/filemgmt/index.php [Expired. See Wayback.]
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