Europe to Los Angeles
The following visualization focuses on the routes that certain emigrés took on their journey to Los Angeles. This Tableau map allows for users to select study individual paths for select analysis, groupings of paths for route comparison, every path at once for pattern recognition. Out of 36 emigrés and a total of 86 stops, it took emigrés an average of 2.39 stops to reach Los Angeles from their starting point.
Out of 86 stops, only 4 stops went eastbound while the rest went west. Berlin was the most popular starting point, holding 15 out of 36 emigrés from our dataset. The most popular second stop was Paris, with it being the second stop for 2 out of 36 emigrés. Other popular areas and cities were Vienna, Southern France, and London before reaching Los Angeles.
Movement of Emigres Through Heat Maps
The following set of maps curated using ArcGIS display the locations of emigres along their travels. Each map displays clusters of immigrants by utilizing a heat map feature. Areas that are brighter red have large emigre populations, while areas shaded in blue have smaller populations.
In 1930, we can observe the high density of individuals in Europe, with very few individuals in Los Angeles or New York. In 1935, we can observe a shift in the heat map, in which individuals appear to be more dispersed across Europe and there is an increase in the density of individuals in Los Angeles and New York. As the sociopolitical situation in Germany worsened leading up to the start of World War II in 1939, many people left Germany and were eventually exiled from Europe. By 1940, there is a noticeably higher concentration of individuals in Los Angeles.
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