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Kolonie und Heimat
Die deutsche koloniale Bilderzeitung
Dienstag, 2. Juni 1942 • 6. Jahrgang • Folge 12
Verlag des Reichskolonialbundes, München 2, Brienner Straße 10
16 pages scanned

Cover Page

Caption: “Immer auf dem Posten!” (“Always on watch!”) — subtitle: “Auf der Brücke eines Flugsicherungsbootes der Luftwaffe im Mittelmeer” (“On the bridge of a Luftwaffe air-safety boat in the Mediterranean”)
Subject: Two crewmen on the bridge of a Luftwaffe air-sea rescue/safety boat, one scanning the horizon with binoculars.
Location: Mediterranean Sea
Photo credit: Kriegsberichter Dr. Rümmler (Atl.)

Major Headlines & Content

“Zum Angriff angetreten…” (“Advanced to the Attack…”) — Report on the Battle of Kerch, the opening battle of the German 1942 spring offensive on the Eastern Front, describing the encirclement and defeat of three Soviet armies (the 44th, 47th and 51st Armies) with over 170,000 prisoners taken. Place: Kertsch, Crimea. Photo credits: Kriegsberichter Horter-Atl., Wetterau-Atl., Hackl-Atl.; Aufnahme: Atlantic.

Glückhafte Heimkehr (Fortunate Homecoming) — Feature on a German U-boat’s return to its Atlantic coast bunker base after a successful war patrol, with Kapitänleutnant Suhren welcomed home by his crew and station comrades. Places: Atlantic coast (France). Photo credits: Kriegsberichter Stöptgeshoff (Sch.).

Tausend Kilometer zwischen Tod und Gefangenschaft (A Thousand Kilometres Between Death and Captivity) — Account by war correspondent Heinrich Brüßler of two German Afrika Korps soldiers, including Gefreite H. from Heidelberg, who evaded encirclement and crossed roughly a thousand kilometres of the Libyan desert to reach German lines. Places: Libyan desert, Agedabia. Photo credit: PK.-Aufnahme Moosmüller.
Ceylon — Historical and geographic feature on Ceylon, covering Portuguese, Dutch and British colonial rule, the island’s tea, rubber, and gem industries, and criticism of British colonial exploitation. Places: Ceylon, Colombo, Adam’s Peak. Photo credits: P. Kunhenn, Sammlung Seiler.

Other Content

Serial feature — “Kolonialräuber am Werk” (Colonial Robbers at Work) by Franz Rose (4. Fortsetzung / 4th instalment, continues on page 178). Propagandistic dialogue-style piece continuing the attack on the British “Blaubuch” and British/French colonial record, featuring named figures including Philip Sassoon, James Brown Scott, and Vernon Bartlett.
Feature — “Neuer Kolonialraub: Madagaskar” (New Colonial Robbery: Madagascar) — Propaganda piece condemning the British occupation of Vichy French Madagascar, with historical background on British interest in the island since the 19th century. Places: Madagascar, Tananarive (Tannanarive), Diego-Suarez. Photo credits: Tschira, Archiv “Kolonie und Heimat”.
Science feature — “Mensch und Meer” (Man and the Sea) — Two-page illustrated feature on oceanography: the Pacific Ocean, wave heights, shipwrecks, and undersea treasure/salvage, including the wrecks of the Titanic, Laurentic, and Spanish Armada vessels. Photo credits: Sammlung Seiler. Drawings: Meyle.
Feature — “Du hast so schöne schwarze Zähne!” (“You Have Such Beautiful Black Teeth!”) — Illustrated article on betel-chewing and tooth-blackening customs in South and Southeast Asia, including a photograph of a Naga princess from Assam. Photo credit: Archiv “Kolonie und Heimat”. Drawing: Schuberth-Goebel.
Feature — “Doktor Eisenbart in Afrika” (Doctor Eisenbart in Africa) — Photo-feature on traditional African medicine men (witch doctors) and the medicine market of Lagos on the “Slave Coast”. Photo credits: Witzleben, Mauritius.
Zoological fable — “Der überlistete Kasuar” (The Outwitted Cassowary), a zoological fairy tale by Adolf Oberlaender, illustrated with cartoon drawings (images used by permission of Verlag Braun & Schneider, Munich).

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