Description
Kolonie und Heimat
Die deutsche koloniale Rundschau
Dienstag, 19. Mai 1942 • 6. Jahrgang • Folge 11
Verlag des Reichskolonialbundes, München 2, Brienner Straße 10
16 pages scanned
Cover Page
Caption: “Sieben Wimpel = 53 000 BRT.” (“Seven pennants = 53,000 gross register tons”)
Subject: Ritterkreuzträger Kapitänleutnant Mohr returning his U-boat to base after his final successful war patrol off the American coast; conning tower flying seven pennants marking sunk-tonnage victories. Caption references the accompanying report “U-Boot-Front” on pages 154/155.
Location: Atlantic, home U-boat base
Photo credit: Kriegsberichter Dietrich (Atl.)
Major Headlines & Content
U-Boot-Front Karibisches Meer (U-boat Front: Caribbean Sea) — Report on German U-boat successes off the North American coast and in the Caribbean, describing extended operational range, sinkings of Allied freighters and tankers, and threats to Gulf and Caribbean oil supply routes. Includes a map of the operational area (sunk freighters/tankers and oil sources marked) and photographs of a sinking tanker and returning U-boat crew. Text: Wulf Siewert. Photo credits: Kriegsberichter Lysiak-Atl., Metzer-Atl., Essig-Sch., Prokop-Sch., Metzen-Sch., Buchheim-Sch. Map drawing: Meyle. Places: Karibisches Meer, Galveston, New Orleans, Tampico, Vera Cruz, Kuba, Haiti, Cartagena.
Königsstadt Mandalay (Royal City of Mandalay) — Feature on Mandalay and Burma following the Japanese advance, describing the former royal palace (built for King Mindon in 1856) and the town of Lashio at the start of the Burma Road. Places: Mandalay, Lashio, Salween river/Moulmein. Photo credit: Winkler.
Störche über Afrika (Storks over Africa) — Feature on the Fieseler Storch reconnaissance aircraft in North Africa, describing its designer Gerhard Fieseler and its use by Generalfeldmarschall Kesselring and Generaloberst Rommel for front-line inspection flights over the Via Balbo and Cyrenaica. Photo credit: Kriegsberichter Doege (PBZ).
Other Content
Serial feature — “Kolonialräuber am Werk” (Colonial Robbers at Work) by Franz Rose (3. Fortsetzung / 3rd instalment, continues on page 162). Propagandistic account attacking British and French colonial policy and the post-WWI “Blaubuch” mandate debate over Germany’s former colonies, framed through an antisemitic narrative involving named British and Jewish public figures (e.g. Philip Sassoon). Includes a caricature illustration.
News feature — “Den ersten Siegern gegen den Bolschewismus” (To the First Victors over Bolshevism) — Report on the unveiling in Munich of a memorial (sculptor: Ferdinand Liebermann) honouring the Freikorps who suppressed the 1919 Munich Räterepublik, with a dedication speech by Reichsstatthalter Reichsleiter General Ritter von Epp. Location: Munich (Giesinger Berg). Photo credit: Denzel.
Photo/travel feature — “Inseln am Rande der Welt” (Islands at the Edge of the World) — Multi-page feature on New Zealand covering Maori culture and tattooing traditions, cities, and the sheep- and dairy-based economy. Places: Neuseeland (New Zealand). Photos: Sammlung Seiler. Drawings: Schuberth-Goebel.
Science article — “Das Tier, das seinem Namen Ehre macht” (The Animal that Honours its Name) — Short natural-history piece on the sloth (Faultier). Photo credit: Bildarchiv Zoologischer Garten, Berlin.
Humour column — Short anecdotes: “Die Enkel” (a zoo-born lion named Exiguus sold to a travelling circus); “Was man nicht kennt…” (a Bavarian missionary in Togo and a milking stool, by E. Heinsick); “Unter dem Schutz Bonapartes” (a Napoleon anecdote); “Krausköpfige Logik” (anecdote about an African servant’s reasoning, signed Hennig; drawing Schuberth-Goebel).
Miscellany — “Afrikanische Kursnotiz” (African Exchange-Rate Note) — a humorous list of barter equivalences reprinted from an 1885 Deutsche Kolonial-Zeitung article.
Photo feature — “Eitelkeit im Busch” (Vanity in the Bush) — Ethnographic photo-essay on hairstyling and grooming customs among African women, including regional styles (e.g. a “cockscomb” hairstyle in North Cameroon) and grooming practices. Places: North Cameroon, Lake Chad region, “Pirateninsel” off the Cameroon coast. Text and photos: Eva Mac Lean.
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