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Illustrierter Beobachter
Donnerstag, 6. Juni 1940 • 15. Jahrgang • Folge 23
Zentralverlag der NSDAP, Franz Eher Nachf. GmbH, München 22

24 pages scanned. PDFdownload.

Cover Page

Caption: “Deutsche Panzer immer am Feind.” (“German tanks always at the enemy.”) Note refers to the interior photo spread “Panzer erobern eine Stadt.”
Subject: Tank commander scanning the horizon with binoculars from an open turret hatch, wearing headset.
Photo credit: PK-Kriegsberichter Erik Borchert, PBZ

Major Headlines & Content

Der Krieg, den sie wollten / Englische Propaganda (The War They Wanted / English Propaganda) — Propaganda counter-spread reproducing content from English and French press. Includes a reproduction of the Daily Express article “Last-War Men to Watch Sky” and images of Mrs Anthony Eden (wife of the British Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs) from People magazine. Accuses the Allies of spreading lies about German paratroopers and of using the 1918 “Altmark” film as propaganda. References Chamberlain, Göring. Mentions Calais.

Panzer erobern eine Stadt (Tanks Conquer a City) — Major photo spread documenting armoured assault on a heavily defended town. Shows tank formations deploying for attack, burning enemy tanks, a Panzer advancing through rubble-strewn streets, and the commander congratulating his crews after a successful advance. Photo credits: PK-Kriegsberichter Erik Borchert (PBZ).

Durchbruch durch die Dyle-Stellung / Vormarsch im Westen (Breakthrough of the Dyle Line / Advance in the West) — Combat images from the breakthrough of the Dyle defensive line. Includes a fiercely contested railway embankment near Löwen, enemy fortifications cleared, and road barriers destroyed by demolition. Photo credits: KP Kipper-Weltbild; PK Jäger-Atl.; KP Utecht-Atl.

Ein Fort wird niedergekämpft — Belgisches Fort Boncelles (A Fort is Fought Down — Belgian Fort Boncelles) — Six-image numbered sequence documenting the storming of Fort Boncelles by German Stoßtrupp under Stuka support. Images show: approach under bombing; Stuka-shattered concrete walls; assault troops advancing; Belgian garrison surrendering and being led away; French prisoners marching to POW camp. Photo credit: PK-Kriegsberichter Gutjahr (Hr. Hoffmann).

Vormarsch — Maubeuge / Französische Zerstörungen (Advance — Maubeuge / French Devastation) — Images of the continuing advance: French refugees returning to their home town now occupied by German troops; German infantry taking possession of Maubeuge; evening advance; remains of a destroyed French supply column hit from the air; French-burned civilian dwellings. Photo credits: PK Scheunemann; PK Premke; PK Brenne; PK v.d. Becke (4 PBZ); PK Jäger-Atl.

Otto Nippold / Kriegsberichter werden ausgezeichnet / Junkers-Werke (Otto Nippold / War Correspondents Decorated / Junkers Works) — Obituary portrait of Jäger Otto Nippold, stellvertretender Gauleiter of Gau München-Oberbayern, killed breaking through the Maginot Line. Major Cranz (stellvertretender Hauptschriftleiter, Völkischer Beobachter, Berlin) decorating a PK-Mann with the Iron Cross at the front. Photo feature on women workers at the Junkers-Werke. Photo credits: Legrand; PK Obschonka-Atl.; L. Adelmeier.

Trenck der Pandur (Trenck the Pandur) — Film feature on the new Tobis production. Hans Albers plays three roles: Baron von der Trenck (elderly landowner), his son Franz (adventurer and favourite of Kaiserin Maria Theresia), and Friedrich von der Trenck (in service of Friedrich der Große). Also pictured: Käthe Dorsch as Kaiserin Maria Theresia; Sybille Schmitz as Prinzessin Deinartstein. Photo credit: Tobis.

Other Content

Fiction serial — “Die Truhe aus Peking” by Hanns Marschall (9th instalment).
Short story — “Der Familienschirm” by Gerda Wesenberg.
Short story — “Das weiße Kaninchen” by Franz Hammer.
Humour
Humour column
Cartoon spread
Puzzles

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