Description
Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung – Number 39, 30 September 1943
Scanned pages: 12 | Instant PDF download
Historical German illustrated weekly magazine, digitized.
Cover
Close-up of a smiling Mussolini seated in the Fieseler „Storch” aircraft, shaking hands before take-off after his rescue, captioned „Guten Start, Duce!”. Photo: Kriegsberichter v. Kayser (Atlantic).
Main Articles
„Gelandet auf Spitzbergen”
PK photo report on the German naval raid on Spitsbergen, showing the command briefing, the shelling of Barentsburg and the landing of German troops on the Arctic island.
War correspondent: Kriegsberichter Rehor (photos: H. H., Scherl).
„Stützpunkt um Stützpunkt angelaufen und vernichtet”
Continuation of the Spitsbergen report covering the advance under a smoke screen and the destruction of enemy installations at Kap Linné.
War correspondent: Kriegsberichter Rehor (photos: H. H., Scherl).
„Kinder im Kriege”
Photo feature on very young Soviet prisoners of war taken on the southern front, including 18-year-old tank loader and radio operator Anna Donajewa.
Photos: H. H.
„Negerfang in England und USA”
Racist propaganda photo feature on Black servicemen and entertainers in a London club and a Black US Army regiment parading in Arizona, naming singer Norris Smith and actress Sadie Hopkins.
No author or photo credit given.
„Wenn Blut der Preis der Admiralität, dann haben wir voll bezahlt”
Illustrated panorama of four years of British naval losses, citing Kipling and a speech by First Lord of the Admiralty Alexander.
No author or artist credited.
„Diana Pontecorvo”
Installment of the serialized novel (chapters XXIV–XXV) in which Diana kills Sandro Alkalow in the Verona arena and reports the act to the police before leaving for Lake Garda.
Author: Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen (Copr. 1943 Deutscher Verlag).
„Nachtgespräch in Flandern”
Front-line story of a captain who falls in an attack on the same Flemish village where his father was killed 25 years earlier, leaving a letter for his commander.
Author: Oberleutnant Emil Schäfer.
„Das Abenteuer”
Humorous short story about bank cashier Albin Bertelsen, who knocks out a supposed burglar who turns out to be his own boss, the banker Lindquist.
Author: Friedrich Müller.
„Rätsel”
Puzzle page with a knight’s-move puzzle, syllable puzzle, crossword and proverb puzzles, plus solutions to No. 38.
No author credited.
„Um ein paar ölfarbene Flecken”
Two humorous collector anecdotes, one about a sketch possibly by Marées and one about a valuable Austrian stamp hidden behind a cheap picture.
Author: Eugen Roth.
„Wer wird Sieger?”
Six-photo sequence of a hedgehog fighting and eating an adder, taken from the Bavaria cultural film „Vorsicht, Kreuzotter!”.
Photos: Bavaria-Schuhmacher.
„Ruinen klagen an!”
Feature on the Tobis film „Die Degenhardts”, shot amid a bombed northern German city, starring Heinrich George, Renée Stobrawa, Ilse Petri and Gunnar Möller under director Werner Klingler.
Photos: Willi Ruge.
„Ohne Sie…”
Cartoon series of “male reflections on the male situation,” showing men coping at home without their wives.
Illustrated by Leo v. Malachowski.
Artists Mentioned
- Leo v. Malachowski – cartoon series „Ohne Sie…”
War Correspondents (Kriegsberichter) Named
- Kriegsberichter v. Kayser (Atlantic) – cover photo of Mussolini
- Kriegsberichter Rehor (H. H., Scherl) – „Gelandet auf Spitzbergen”