Maps often lag behind official name changes, while names such as “Volgograd” and “Belarus” by definition did not exist until long after the war.
Of course there’s nothing wrong with using names such as “Mesopotamia”, but the government of the country at the time called it “Iraq” so that’s what I prefer to go along with.
But these are the maps that were created from various sources of the day. My maps always use the vernacular of the time they are representing.
If the Generals who planned their battles made maps that used these titles, those are the ones i want to use and in view of any information to the contrary the names i used are more official in terms of this outlook.
I don’t go by maps printed after the war ended, when various nations tried to throw off the names that were established by the colonial powers. They have no credibility to a map thats said to contain the information that war planners would have used in these times.
And i don’t have Belarus on my map. I have no idea why you made that comment since it does not apply in this case.
