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Kolonie und Heimat
Dienstag, 11. August 1942 • 6. Jahrgang • Folge 17
Reichskolonialbund e.V., Berlin — Verlag des Reichskolonialbundes, München 2, Brienner Straße 10
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Cover Page
Caption: „Deutsche Minensuchboote auf hoher Fahrt im Nördlichen Eismeer“ (“German minesweepers at high speed in the Northern Arctic Ocean”)
Subject: A German minesweeper cutting through heavy seas, with snow-covered mountains in the background.
Location: Nördliches Eismeer (Arctic Ocean).
Photo credit: Kriegsberichter Lehr (PK-Aufnahme, Atl.).
Major Headlines & Content
Atlantik-Front vom Eismeer zur Biskaya (Atlantic Front from the Arctic Ocean to Biscay) — Article on the German offensive in the East reaching toward the Caucasus and the Volga, Allied talk of a „second front“, and the strength of Atlantic Wall fortifications from the North Cape to the Bay of Biscay, including U-boat pens and coastal gun emplacements. Named: Churchill, Roosevelt. Places: Charkow, Donez, Don, Wolga, Kaukasus, Nordkap, Biskaya, Nordfrankreich. Photo credits: PK-Kriegsberichter Gentsch, Dr. Ost.
Japanische Puppen für unsere Verwundeten (Japanese Dolls for Our Wounded) — Feature on German–Japanese wartime friendship, describing handcrafted dolls made by the Puppenverein „Ningyo Kumiai“ in Yokohama and gifts and care packages assembled by German women in Tokio for wounded German soldiers. Named: Fräulein Inagaki Mizuuko. Places: Tokio, Yokohama. Photo credit: Werner Cohnitz.
Farbige Hilfsvölker (Colored Auxiliary Peoples) — Photo-portrait spread on colonial and colored troops serving with British forces against Feldmarschall Rommel in North Africa, with captions on Melanesier, Annamit, Chinese, Malaie, Inder, Zulukaffer, a „Schwarzer Gaullist“, and Syrier. Named: Feldmarschall Rommel, Lettow-Vorbeck (historical comparison). Photo credits: Atlantic, Hoffmann, Presse-Bild-Zentrale.
Kriegs-Safari in Deutsch-Ost (War Safari in German East Africa) — „Deutsches Soldatentum in Afrika“: historical account of the Schutztruppe in Deutsch-Ostafrika under Oberstleutnant von Lettow-Vorbeck during the First World War, from its founding by Hauptmann von Wissmann under Fürst Bismarck to Lettow-Vorbeck’s prolonged defensive campaign against superior British, Belgian and Portuguese forces. Named: Fürst Bismarck, Hauptmann von Wissmann, Oberstleutnant von Lettow-Vorbeck, Generalfeldmarschall Rommel (comparison). Places: Deutsch-Ostafrika, Tanga, Mosambik. Text: Erich Student; photos: Archiv „Kolonie und Heimat“.
Ein neuer Erdteil ist entdeckt (A New Continent Is Discovered) — Illustrated feature on the exploration of Antarctica, including the German Antarctic Expedition’s ship „Schwabenland“, the Ritscher-Expedition of 1938/39, the naming of Neu-Schwabenland, and a sector map of international Antarctic claims. Named: Amundsen, Dallmann, Sachse, Drygalski, Filchner. Places: Antarktis, Neu-Schwabenland, Südpol.
Other Content
Fiction serial — „Liebe auf Elefantenpfaden“ by Josef Viera (3. Fortsetzung; continues on next page). Continuation of the light novel set among coffee planters in Deutsch-Ostafrika, following Hensing, Gottewinter, Eva Lachner, Marele, Häuptling Kosende, and the rival Kidole.
Anecdote — „Das Auge des Herrn“ — humorous anecdote about a planter, referred to only as „L.“, who tricks his plantation workers by leaving his glass eye watching them.
Feature — „Der Topftempel bei Agra“ — on a curious shrine covered in painted pots near Agra, India, marking the grave of a Muslim holy man venerated by local pilgrims. Places: Agra. Photo credit: Vendia v. Langen (Mauritius).
Cartoon — „Der „Sklavenjäger“ Smuts“ — political cartoon depicting Jan Smuts recruiting colonial troops in Egypt for the fight against Rommel. Artist: Liungfeldt.
Puzzle feature — „Bilder-Rätsel“ — four illustrated questions on the fates of famous paintings and their models/subjects: Dürer’s self-portrait, the theft of the Mona Lisa, Rubens’s Helene Fourment, and Dorothea von Offenburg.
Cartoon spread — „Junge Mädchen“ — a set of captioned gag cartoons about young women („Lili Marlen“, „Sie konnten beinander nicht kommen …“, „Mein Schatz ist bei der Marine“, „Schau mal an!“). Artist: Schuberth-Goebel.
Puzzles — „Raten und Denken“ — a Silbenversteck, a Rösselsprung (knight’s-move puzzle), and a Magisches Quadrat. Solutions to the previous issue’s (Folge 16) Kryptogramm, Rösselsprung, and Verschieberätsel are also printed.
Photo feature — „Alles einsteigen! Mit der Eisenbahn durch den Kameruner Urwald“ — on a train journey aboard the Mittellandbahn from Duala to Jaunde through the rainforest of southern Kamerun. Places: Duala, Jaunde, Kamerun. Photo credit: E. Andres (Tschira).
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