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Illustrierter Beobachter
Donnerstag, 27. Juli 1939 • 14. Jahrgang • Folge 30
Zentralverlag der NSDAP, Franz Eher Nachf. GmbH, München 22
36 pages scanned
Cover Page
Caption: “Gertrud Raub tanzt das ‘Lied an die Erde'” — “Gertrud Raub dances ‘Song to the Earth'”
Subject: Dancer Gertrud Raub performing a scene from the dance work “Domnus” by Jutta Klamt, staged at the Reichstag of the NS-Gemeinschaft Kraft durch Freude in Hamburg.
Location: Hamburg.
Photo credit: Rondoophot.
Major Headlines & Content
Betriebsausflug mit der Kanzlei des Führers (Staff outing with the Führer’s Chancellery) — Staff of the Führer’s Chancellery travel by special train from Lehrter Bahnhof, Berlin, to Hamburg as guests of Reichsstatthalter und Gauleiter Karl Kaufmann. Activities include a harbour tour, a visit to the KdF-Schiff “Wilhelm Gustloff” in port, and a boat trip on the Elbe to Blankenese and the Süllberg. Personalities pictured include Reichsleiter Bouhler and Reichsamtsleiter Bersenkamp. Photo report by Ludwig V. Kreil.
Der Generalfeldmarschall besichtigt die Reichswerke “Hermann Göring” (The Field Marshal inspects the Hermann Göring Reich Works) — Generalfeldmarschall Göring inspects construction at the Reichswerke Hermann Göring steelworks at Salzgitter (Hütte Braunschweig). He meets with section heads of the mining division, named as Brand and Wiener, during a tour of the Tagebau Haverlahwiese open-cast workings. Also present: Staatsrat Dr. Gritzbach, Generaldirektor Pleiger. Photos: Bildstelle HGW.
Vor 25 Jahren (25 Years Ago) — Photo feature recalling mobilisation scenes from 1 August 1914 in Berlin: a Guard officer reading out the mobilisation order on Unter den Linden; a Guard regiment marching to the field accompanied by relatives to the Bahnhof; the Landsturm departing in railway wagons. Photos by Otto Haeckel.
Teufel Alkohol am Steuer — Die motorisierte Gendarmerie sichert den Überlandverkehr (Devil Alcohol at the Wheel — The motorised gendarmerie secures rural road traffic) — Photo reportage accompanying a motorised traffic patrol of the Gendarmerie, Abteilung Potsdam, during a night-time roadside check. A drunk driver fails to stop, crashes into a tree, and his injured passenger is treated at the scene. Photos by Karl P. Platzek.
Das Gespensterschiff von Kobe: “Yashima Maru” (The Ghost Ship of Kobe: “Yashima Maru”) — Photo feature on the salvage near Kobe of the “Yashima Maru”, a vessel that sank six years earlier in a storm — originally an English destroyer, later converted by the Japanese. The ship’s compass was found intact on the seabed. Photo credit: Weltrundschau.
Im Lande des Dalailama (In the Land of the Dalai Lama) — Photo feature on Tibet based on the German SS-Tibet Expedition of Dr. Schäfer. The Regent and King of Tibet receives the expedition at his residence in Lhasa. Images show the Chotang (holiest Lamaist temple), the Regent travelling by golden palanquin to the state oracle, and the uncrowned King Tsarong. Expedition photos by Krause (SS-Tibet-Expedition Dr. Schäfer).
Der kleinste Motor der Welt (The World’s Smallest Motor) — Science feature on a microscopic electric motor — 5 mm tall — built without machine tools by ethnic-German student Erik Erdmann from Reval (Estonia). The motor’s propeller can lift a dandelion seed. Photos by Dr. Croy.
Nur für eiserne Nerven: Mit dem Schiff zwischen den Hörnern eines Eisberges (Only for nerves of steel: By ship between the horns of an iceberg) — Photo feature on the international ice-patrol steamer “Chelan” navigating between the twin peaks of a 110-foot iceberg in the North Atlantic while its crew surveys the hazard. Photo: Assoc. Press.
Frau Roosevelt reizt die weißen Amerikaner weiter / Paralyse — zu spät erkannt! / Die Revolutionsfeiern in Paris (Mrs Roosevelt continues to antagonise white Americans / Paralysis — recognised too late! / The Revolution celebrations in Paris) — International news spread. Eleanor Roosevelt, as First Lady, is shown honouring Black singer Marion Anderson with the “Medal of the most popular Negro.” Separately, former US Ambassador to Berlin Dr. William Dodd, fined for a traffic offence and now suffering from paralysis, is pictured with daughter Martha Dodd, born Stern. Paris Bastille Day parade photographs show (from left) British War Minister Hore-Belisha, French Foreign Minister Bonnet, Admiral Sir Evans, General Viscount Gort, and General Gamelin. English Jewry’s War Minister is shown visiting conscripted militiamen at Guildford Barracks. Photos: Assoc. Press.
Vom Rübenacker ins Olympia-Stadion (From the turnip field to the Olympic Stadium) — Profile of farm labourer Willi Trapp from Züllichau who trained alone and placed fourth in the 35-kilometre race at the German Athletics Championships on 9 July 1939 at the Olympia-Stadion, Berlin-Pankow. Photos: Atlantik.
Luftreise im Bademantel (Air journey in a bathrobe) — Photo feature on Swedes flying in beachwear from Stockholm by motorboat and seaplane to the bathing beach at Visby on the island of Gotland. Photos by Hr. Hoffmann.
König Peter hat Schulferien (King Peter has school holidays) — Photo feature on King Peter of Yugoslavia spending his summer holidays at the royal residence Bled, accompanied by Prinzessin Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen. The young king is shown on the Veldeser See and at camp activities with schoolfriends. Photo report by Helmuth Kurth.
Other Content
Fiction serial — Roman eines deutschen Mannes by Luis Trenker (5th instalment). Set during the Napoleonic wars in Carinthia and Austria; characters include the partisan Sturmegger, der schwarze Nikolaus (Kraiger from Sanft Martin), Major Eisensteden, and the French commander Oberstleutnant Berthold Lunte. Locations: Möll- und Drautal, Millbach, Villach, Gastein, Salzburg, Wien, Lugau, Sachsenborg. Continues across multiple pages. Copyright by Franz Eher Nachf. G.m.b.H., München 22.
Fiction serial — Verflucht ist für Zanzibar — Zwanzig Jahre Weltpolitik um eine Frau by Albert Stenzel (3rd instalment). Account of German colonial diplomacy over Zanzibar in the 1880s; figures include Kolonialvater Dr. Carl Peters, Fürst Bismarck, Konsul Paschke (Commodore), Admiral Knorr, Sultan Said Bargasch, English Consul Holmwood, and Princess Salme (Emily Ruete, born Princess of Oman and Zanzibar). Locations: Zanzibar, Dar-es-Salam, Pangani, Pemba, Ritu, Daressalam, London, Port Said, Nafia, Lamu, Tanga. Continues.
History article — Wie das Dampfroß das Gebirge erkletterte — Profile of Nikolaus Riggenbach (born Gebweiler, 1817), inventor of the rack railway (Zahnradbahn), who built the first section of the Rigi railway in 1870 and demonstrated the system at the Ingenieurversammlung in Stuttgart. Ministerial director Weisbaupt is also mentioned.
Short fiction — Altes Herz in rauher Rinde by E. C. Christophé — A man named Hans Bolten returns to his home village in search of a linden tree carved with the initials of his parents. He meets the Försterin (forester’s daughter) Hanna.
Short fiction — Ludwig XI. und sein Astrolog — Brief anecdote about the French king Louis XI and his court astrologer Galeotti.
Humour column — Humor — Short jokes and illustrated cartoon by R. Fäcke.
Humour column — Humor der Anderen — Jokes sourced from Chicago Tribune, Houston Post, Aftonbladet, and Tit Bits.
Humour feature — Der Luftikus by Fritz Georg Dietrich — Comic short story set in a factory, featuring workers Schröder and Tönning.
Cartoon spread — Fs Horatu die “Herren-Gitz-Mode”! — Multi-panel cartoon by Erich Huber imagining men adopting women’s summer fashion. Published by Zentralverlag der NSDAP.
Chess column — Schach-Beobachter — Problem by Ludwig Schaab (Pirmasens); solution to previous issue’s problem by Theodor Süggel (Leverkusen-Schlebusch). Game analysis: Französische Verteidigung played in the Europa-Turnier, Stuttgart (Weiß: Richter; Schwarz: O’Kelly); Caro-Kann-Verteidigung from the GSB Wertungsturnier, Wien, June 1939 (Weiß: Fink, Graz; Schwarz: Dr. Weil, Wien).
Puzzles — Rätsel — Kreuzworträtsel, Füllerätsel, Kryptogramm. Solutions to Folge 29 puzzles printed on page 1184.
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