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Kolonie und Heimat
Dienstag, 10. März 1942 • 6. Jahrgang • Folge 6
Reichskolonialbund e. V., Berlin — Verlag des Reichskolonialbundes, München
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Cover Page
Caption: „Kurze Waffenpause in der Cyrenaika. Soldaten des Deutschen Afrika-Korps bei der Reinigung ihrer Waffen, die doppelt sorgfältig vorgenommen werden muß, da der feine Wüstenstaub in alle Teile dringt.” (“A brief lull in the fighting in Cyrenaica. Soldiers of the German Afrika Korps cleaning their weapons, a task requiring double care since fine desert dust penetrates every part.”)
Subject: Two Afrikakorps soldiers seated among desert grass, cleaning their rifles.
Location: Cyrenaica, North Africa.
Photo credit: PK-Aufn.: Kriegsberichter Schönberg (Atl.)
Major Headlines & Content
Winterfront unerschüttert (Winter Front Unshaken) — Report claiming the German front on the central Eastern Front held firm against a major Soviet winter offensive near the Waldai Heights and Ilmensee, with heavy Soviet losses cited (56,806 prisoners over seven weeks) against exaggerated Moscow radio claims of a breakthrough toward Berlin; also covers the Finnish front, Crimea, and Sevastopol. Subsections on supply sledges, ski-equipped aircrews, a tank attack in a snowstorm, and Finnish medics. Photo credits: Kriegsberichter Lachmann (Atl.), Speck (Atl.), Veaskamen (Atl.).
Vom Nordkap bis zum Äquator (From the North Cape to the Equator) — Overview of the naval war: German U-boats extending operations to the US coast and Caribbean (Aruba, Port of Spain, Trinidad), tables of sunk British merchant tonnage and Royal Navy warship losses (including Royal Oak, Hood, Prince of Wales, Courageous, Glorious), and the successful 12 February 1942 daylight Channel Dash of German battleships. Photo credits: Scherl, Atlantic; drawing by Treuschert; PK-drawing by Kriegsberichter Sommer (Sch.).
In Ruhestellung (At Rest) — Photo feature on rest periods for German troops in North Africa: a desert oasis water stop, mail call, swimming in the Mediterranean, an aircraft engine change, and soldiers playing Skat. Photo credits: Kriegsberichter Oppitz (Sch.), Schönberg (Atl.), Zwilling (Atl.), Krempl-Presse-Hoffmann.
Other Content
Feature article — Sumatra — Insel der Kontraste (Sumatra — Island of Contrasts) — Overview of Dutch-colonial Sumatra, contrasting modern port cities, the Palembang oil refinery region, and tobacco plantations at Deli with untouched jungle interior; mentions the first Japanese landing attempt near Palembang and the Pankalan oil refinery on the east coast. Photo credits: Dr. Herrlich, Atlantic.
Science feature — Der Golfstrom heizt Europa (The Gulf Stream Heats Europe) — Article on the Gulf Stream’s warming effect on Europe’s climate, contrasted with Alaska at similar latitude, and the migration of eels to the Sargasso Sea to spawn. By S. Photo credits: Tschira, Scherl, Seiler; drawing by Schuberth-Goebel.
Fiction serial — Im Banne Kameruns by Richard Küas (Schluß / concluding instalment). Colonial novel concludes with Kling and characters Yerima, Bature, Toinje, Sultan Omar von Mandara, and Zuberu; ends with Kling’s departure for the Kamerun mountains and his return voyage home. Marked “Ende.”
Nature feature — Wehrhaftes Wild (Animals That Defend Themselves) — Article on dangerous defensive game animals of East Africa — buffalo, rhinoceros, elephant, lion — with a photo of Massai warriors watching game. By Dr. U. Photo credit: Haase-Halver.
Feature article — Die Uhr der Primitiven (The Clock of Primitive Peoples) — On native sun-based timekeeping among the people of Flores in the Netherlands East Indies, illustrated with a “sun-clock” diagram; includes a short anecdote about Blücher in Paris after 1815.
Trivia column — Verrückt! (Crazy!) — Seven geography trivia questions exposing common misconceptions of map scale and distance, covering Italy’s width, the length of the Nile, London, Chile, the Brazilian jungle, and Tibet versus the Pyrenees.
Photo feature — Affentanz auf Bali (Monkey Dance on Bali) — Sequence of photographs of the Balinese Kedjak (Kecak) dance, performed by men re-enacting the mythic battle between the followers of Hanuman and Ravana. Photo credit: Dr. Herrlich.
Public notices — War-savings appeal (“Aber eisern…”) featuring a metalworker urging readers to save money during the war; a potato-conservation appeal featuring the cartoon figure “Pelle” as a “potato detective.”
No commercial product advertisements appear in this issue.