Description
Kolonie und Heimat
Die deutsche koloniale Bilderzeitung
Dienstag, 16. Juni 1942 • 6. Jahrgang • Folge 13
Verlag des Reichskolonialbundes, München 2, Brienner Straße 10
16 pages scanned
Cover Page
Caption: “Ein Madagasse vom Stamme der kriegerischen Bara” (“A Madagascan of the warlike Bara tribe”) — subtitle: “Zu unserem Bildbericht: Ein Volk sucht seine Ahnen” (“Referring to our photo report: A People Search for their Ancestors”)
Subject: Close portrait of a young Madagascan man of the Bara tribe with an elaborate crested hairstyle.
Location: Madagascar
Photo credit: Aufnahme: Pasi
Major Headlines & Content
“Der gefürchtete Name Rommel”: Neue Offensive in der Marmarica (“The Feared Name Rommel”: New Offensive in the Marmarica) — Report on Generaloberst Rommel’s renewed North African offensive, describing German-Italian gains after the earlier drive from El Agheila and the fighting around El Ghazala, Bir Hacheim and Derna. Includes a photograph of Rommel conferring with the Italian General Navarini. Places: Marmarica, Tripoli, El Agheila, El Ghazala, Bir Hacheim, Derna, Tobruk, Malta. Photo credits: Kriegsberichter Moosmüller-Atl., Sturm-H.; Archiv “Kolonie und Heimat”. Accompanying feature: “Die Einkreisung Südamerikas” (The Encirclement of South America), on growing US military and economic influence across Central and South America, with a map by Meyle.
Ein Volk sucht seine Ahnen (A People Search for their Ancestors) — Ethnographic feature on the peoples of Madagascar and the unresolved question of their origins, covering the Betsimisaraka, Sakalave, Mahafaly, Betsileo, Antandroy and Hova tribes. Place: Madagascar (Tananarive). Photo credit: Aufnahmen: Pas.
Zwischen den Kämpfen: Frühlingsfest in Assam (Between the Battles: Spring Festival in Assam) — Feature on the Naga people of Assam and their spring festival dance, set against the British retreat from Burma before the Japanese advance. Places: Assam, Shillong, Burma. Photo credits: Dr. von Fürer.
Other Content
Serial feature (concluding instalment) — “Kolonialräuber am Werk” (Colonial Robbers at Work) by Franz Rose — final part (“Schluß!”), titled “Lloyd George überrumpelt die Konferenz mit der Kolonialfrage” (Lloyd George Takes the Conference by Surprise over the Colonial Question), a dramatised account of the 1919 Paris peace conference debate over Germany’s former colonies, naming David Lloyd George, Georges Clemenceau, Woodrow Wilson, Jan Smuts, and other delegates. Continues on page 194.
Feature — “Arbeitstag eines deutschen Pflanzers” (A Working Day of a German Planter) — Photo-feature on German-run tobacco, palm oil and cocoa plantations in Cameroon. Place: Kamerun (Cameroon), near the Kamerunberg. Photo credits: Tschira.
Science feature — “Der Mensch und das Weltall” / “Welten über der Welt” (Man and the Universe / Worlds Above the World) — Two-page astronomy spread on the scale of the cosmos, the moon, Mars, and the meteoric origin of the Kaaba stone in Mecca. Photo credits: Scherl. Drawings: Schuberth-Goebel.
Fiction/adventure story — “Die Rache der Papuas” (The Revenge of the Papuans) by Fritz Faust — a dramatised account of a colonial uprising on Viti Levu in Fiji and a shipboard snake attack aboard the steamer “König Lear”, framed as having taken place on 12 June 1941. Places: Viti Levu, Fiji, Singapore. Drawing: Schuberth-Goebel.
Nature/hunting account — “Jagd auf Stachelschweine” (Hunting Porcupines) — First-person hunting account of tracking porcupines in East Africa, with a photograph of an Abyssinian porcupine. Photo credit: Bildarchiv Zoologischer Garten, Berlin.
Cartoon/humour spread — “Frag nicht so dumm!” (Don’t Ask Such Silly Questions!) — short humorous parent-child dialogues, and “… und neues Leben blüht aus den Ruinen” (…and New Life Blossoms from the Ruins) — a cartoon strip. Drawings: Kossatz, Schuberth-Goebel.
Photo feature — “Unverhülltes Afrika” (Unveiled Africa) — Ethnographic photo-essay on unclothed peoples of the Lake Chad marshland and steppe region, describing lip ornamentation and thatched dwellings. Places: Tschadsee (Lake Chad), Lago Tikem. Photo credits: Tschira, Wolff.
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