Description
Kolonie und Heimat
Dienstag, 21. April 1942 • 6. Jahrgang • Folge 9
Reichskolonialbund e. V., Berlin — Verlag des Reichskolonialbundes, München
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Cover Page
Caption: „Der Führer leitet als Oberster Befehlshaber der Wehrmacht die Operationen seiner Armeen.” (“The Führer, as Supreme Commander of the Wehrmacht, directs the operations of his armies.”)
Subject: Adolf Hitler, in military uniform, holding papers, with an adjutant standing behind him.
Photo credit: Aufnahme: Hoffmann.
Major Headlines & Content
Männer um Rommel (Men Around Rommel) — Feature profiling German colonial-tradition officers serving under Generaloberst Rommel’s Afrikakorps, framed as heirs to earlier colonial soldiers like Hermann von Wißmann, Hans Dominik, and General Lettow-Vorbeck. Named officers include Generalmajor von Vaerst, Ritterkreuzträger General der Panzertruppen Crüwell, Ritterkreuzträger Hauptmann Fromm, Oberstleutnant Grasemann, Oberstleutnant i. G. Harlinghausen, Oberstleutnant i. G. Baierlein, Hauptmann Bach, Oberstleutnant von Barby, Oberst Kramer, Oberleutnant Schwabach, Wachtmeister Melzer, and Ritterkreuzträger Oberleutnant Kümmel (“the lion of Fort Capuzzo”). Photo credits: Kriegsberichter Zwilling (Atl.), Valtingojer (Atl.), Dreßler (Sch.), Boecker (Sch.), Borchert (Atl.), Atlantik.
Westwall am Atlantik (West Wall on the Atlantic) — Report on German U-boat successes (16.7 million tons of enemy shipping sunk by German action alone) and the fortified 4,000-km Atlantic coastal defense line, including heavy naval artillery, barbed-wire beach defenses, and reinforced-concrete U-boat bunkers. Quotes a resigned New York Times assessment of the difficulty of any Allied invasion of Europe. Photo credits: Kriegsberichter Andres (Sch.), Busch (Sch.), Kramer (Atl.), Schlemmer (Sch.).
Kolonialräuber am Werk (Colonial Robbers at Work) — First continuation (I. Fortsetzung) of the series begun in Folge 8 on the loss of Germany’s colonies at Versailles, edited by Franz Rose. Covers Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points and the Paris Peace Conference negotiations among Wilson, Lloyd George, and Clemenceau, with satirical character sketches of Lloyd George (“Der Fuchs”/The Fox) and Clemenceau (“Der Tiger”/The Tiger), based on the memoirs of journalist Vernon Bartlett and Sir Maurice Hankey. Continues in the next issue (“Fortsetzung folgt”).
Other Content
Feature article — Wettfahrt der Java-Fischer (Race of the Java Fishermen) — On Malay fishermen of Sumatra and Java, their lantern-net night fishing technique, and the morning fish auction at the Pasar Ikan market in Batavia. Photo credit: Dr. Herrlich.
Science feature — Inseln und Kontinente (Islands and Continents) — Article on the geology and geography of islands versus continents, covering guano-building sea birds, sunken landmasses of the Atlantic and Pacific, and the geological puzzle of New Zealand’s isolation. Photo credits: Seiler, Tschira; drawing by Schubert-Goebel (after Gheyselinck).
Anecdote column — Short items: “Das Krokodil und der schlaue Neger” (a trickster story about a fake crocodile sale in Africa), “Eigene Orthographie” (a Bismarck-era anecdote about General von Roon and King Wilhelm), “Wort und Tat” (an anecdote about the cavalry general Seydlitz), “Beruhigende Auskunft” (a soldier and a garrison chaplain), and “Was sie ausrichteten” (Danes versus Hamburg, 1670).
Photo feature — Affen-Komödie (Monkey Comedy) — Illustrated verses accompanying photographs of the trained chimpanzees Mieze and Maxi from the Budapest Zoo’s chimpanzee school. Photo credit: Mauritius.
Trivia column — 4 Fragen aus dem „Volksmund” (Four Questions from Folk Sayings) — Etymology explainers on the origins of the words “Kaffer,” “Tiger,” and “Pflaumbaum,” and the saying “um des Kaisers Bart streiten.” Accompanied by Frühlings-Spruch-Wörter, illustrated spring-themed verses by Walter Fuchs.
Feature article — Urwald-Delikatessen (Jungle Delicacies) — Illustrated feature on exotic foods eaten around the world: palm-weevil grubs and agave caterpillars (gusano) from Cameroon and Mexico, palm fruit, coconut, roasted locusts, iguana, monkey meat, and crocodile eggs from Brazil. Photo credits: Edith Boeck-Bavaria.
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