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Kolonie und Heimat
Dienstag, 30. Juni 1942 • 6. Jahrgang • Folge 14
Reichskolonialbund e. V., Berlin — Verlag des Reichskolonialbundes, München
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Cover Page
Caption: „Generaloberst Rommel im Kampfgelände der nordafrikanischen Front.” (“Generaloberst Rommel in the combat zone of the North African front.”)
Subject: Generaloberst Erwin Rommel, Commander of the Afrikakorps, pointing while consulting a map with fellow officers.
Location: North African front.
Photo credit: PK-Aufnahme: Kriegsberichter Moosmüller (Atl.)
Major Headlines & Content
Sewastopol — Feature on the German assault on the heavily fortified Soviet naval base of Sevastopol in the Crimea, with a history of the port from Potemkin’s founding through the Crimean War, the 1905 Potemkin mutiny, and the 1918 German capture, followed by an account of the storming of Fort Stalin, Fort Sibirien, and the “Maxim Gorki” gun battery. Photo credits: Kriegsberichter Wetterau (Atl.); Aufn. Scherl.
Briten-Katastrophe im Mittelmeer-Raum (British Catastrophe in the Mediterranean) — Report on coordinated Axis army, navy, and air victories in the Marmarica and the Mediterranean, including the destruction of two British convoys bound for Gibraltar and Alexandria, the air and sea battle off Pantelleria, and 110,000 tons of Allied shipping sunk. Profiles Oberleutnant Hans-Joachim Marseille, credited with 101 aerial victories on the African front. Photo credits: Kriegsberichter Dreßer (Atl.), Köth (PBZ); map: Archiv „Kolonie und Heimat”.
Das Deutsche Rote Kreuz in Libyen (The German Red Cross in Libya) — Feature on German Red Cross nurses serving at a Luftwaffe field hospital in the Libyan desert between Derna and Tobruk, describing their care for wounded soldiers and daily life under front-line conditions. By Kriegsberichter H. Herlyn. Photo credits: Kriegsberichter Doege (Sch.), Billhardt (Atl.).
Other Content
Feature article — Gioventù Araba del Littorio (Arab Youth of the Littorio) — On Arab youth in Italian-ruled Libya organized under the Fascist “Littorio” youth movement, including paramilitary training and schools set up by the Italian colonial administration. Photo credit: Mauritius.
Feature article — Tierpark der Seltsamkeiten (Zoo of Curiosities) — Two-page illustrated feature on rare and little-seen animals: the giant panda, Goliath frog, white rhinoceros, pygmy hippopotamus, echidna, platypus, moa, okapi, quetzal, lyrebird, great auk, and Komodo dragon. Photo credits: Kerschner (Haus der Natur, Salzburg), Archiv „Kolonie und Heimat”, Bildarchiv Zoologischer Garten Berlin, Paul Lieberenz, Engel, Naturmuseum Senckenberg (Frankfurt); drawings by Schuberth-Goebel.
Fiction serial — Liebe auf Elefantenpfaden (Love on Elephant Paths) by Josef Viera, a new colonial novel (“ein heiterer Roman aus Deutsch-Ostafrika”) beginning in this issue, set in 1938 in the Kilimanjaro region of German East Africa. Introduces coffee planters Hanno Gotteswinter and Rainer Hensing, the young widow Eva Lachner, planter Zill Gabler, and other characters. First instalment.
Feature article — Rätsel in Eisen (Riddle in Iron) by Bernhard Graf Matuschka — On the ancient Iron Pillar of Delhi (Kutab), a 16-metre, 10,000-kg wrought-iron column from the 4th century AD that remains rust-free, and the unsolved question of the metallurgical technique used to make it. Includes short anecdotes „Askaritreue” (a WWI loyalty story) and „Der Halbidiot” (an anecdote about French Marshal Mac Mahon), and a cartoon, „Auch der Schwarze Erdteil verdunkelt jetzt,” joking about African blackout regulations.
Trivia column — So ein Zufall! (What a Coincidence!) — Four questions on probability and coincidence: betting on red or black at roulette, the odds of meeting a man versus a woman, a story of two brothers reunited by chance, and a puzzle about drawing black or white beans.
Cartoon spread — Tropen-Zauber (Tropical Magic) — Cartoons about jungle sorcery and magic. Drawings by Schuberth-Goebel.
Puzzles — Raten und Denken (Guess and Think) page: Kryptogramm, Zahlenrätsel, Verschieberätsel, and Zauberviert in Silben. Solutions to the puzzles from Folge 13 also printed.
Feature article — Hol über! (Ferry Across!) — On river-crossing methods on the Sanaga, the largest of Cameroon’s coastal rivers, using lashed-together dugout canoes paddled by 12–15 men to ferry vehicles and passengers. Photo credits: Erich Andres-Tschira.
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