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Kolonie und Heimat
Dienstag, 25. August 1942 • 6. Jahrgang • Folge 18
Reichskolonialbund e.V., Berlin — Verlag des Reichskolonialbundes, München 2, Brienner Straße 10
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Cover Page
Caption: „Radfahrabteilung auf dem Vormarsch im großen Donbogen“ (“Bicycle unit advancing in the great bend of the Don”)
Subject: Portrait of a young, smiling German soldier of a bicycle unit, with cycling gear and pack visible.
Location: Der große Donbogen (great bend of the River Don), Eastern Front.
Photo credit: Kriegsberichter Gehrmann (PK-Aufnahme, Wb.).
Major Headlines & Content
Kaukasus (Caucasus) — Illustrated geographic and historical feature on the Caucasus as the border between Asia and Europe, covering Georgian history under Russian rule, the Heerstraße (military road) from Wladikawkas to Tiflis, the Darjal gorge, and the Kasbek massif. Named: König Georg XIII. von Georgien. Places: Kaukasus, Wladikawkas (Ordschonikidse), Batum, Tiflis, Kasbek, Krestowyj-Paß, Aragwatal. Photo credits: Dr. Albert Herrlich.
Ferien im Süden (Holidays in the South) — Photo feature on German boys and girls spending their summer holidays at Adriatic and Tyrrhenian seaside resorts under the supervision of the Auslandsorganisation (AO) on behalf of the Hauptamt für Volkswohlfahrt, showing swimming, games, and palm-lined parks. Photo credits: Atlantic.
Erschütterte Bastionen (Shaken Bastions) — Illustrated propaganda essay arguing that the British Empire’s colonial power — in Egypt, India, and the Mediterranean — is crumbling under wartime pressure on multiple fronts, illustrated with historical British and satirical caricatures on colonial exploitation (including a Punch cartoon and works referencing John Gillray and Napoleon). Named: Churchill, Amery, Halifax, Rommel, Bastico. Places: Ägypten, Indien, Malta, Alexandria, Sudan. Art/photo credits: Sammlung Karger-Decker, Archiv „Kolonie und Heimat“.
Unser Rommel (Our Rommel) — „Deutsches Soldatentum in Afrika“: biographical feature tracing Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel’s career from a decorated lieutenant in the First World War Argonnen and Romanian campaigns, through his interwar service and role as Hitlerjugend liaison officer, to his command of the Deutsches Afrikakorps and the capture of Tobruk. Named: Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel, General Nehring. Places: Heidenheim an der Brenz, Argonnen, Dolomiten, Goslar, Tschechei, Polen, Nordafrika. Author: Mac Lean; photo credits: Kriegsberichter Moosmüller.
Der Oberst vom „verkauften Regiment“ (The Colonel of the ‘Sold Regiment’) — Historical feature on the Württembergisches Kapregiment, a body of Württemberg soldiers sold by Herzog Karl Eugen von Württemberg to the Dutch East India Company, who fought and were captured by the English on Ceylon some 150 years earlier; centres on their commander Obrist Theobald von Hügel, who died in English captivity and is buried at Point de Galle. Named: Herzog Karl Eugen von Württemberg, Obrist Theobald von Hügel. Places: Ceylon, Galle, Java, Amboina, Kap der Guten Hoffnung, Coromandelküste. Photo credits: Werner Cohnitz.
Other Content
Fiction serial — „Liebe auf Elefantenpfaden“ by Josef Viera (4. Fortsetzung; continues on page 258). Continuation of the light novel set among coffee planters in Deutsch-Ostafrika, following Hensing, Gottewinter, Eva Lachner and the old guide Kidole on the mountain safari.
Cartoon spread — „Unsere Afrikaner zeichnen“ — three short gag cartoons on desert/African themes drawn by a soldier-artist. Artist: Obergefreiter Henze.
Reader letters column — „Was unsere Leser sagen“ — readers’ corrections and additions to the earlier „Es irrt der Mensch“ trivia items (on Schiller’s historical inaccuracies in Faust and Wallenstein), and „Zweimal Topftempel“, a reader-submitted photo of German soldiers using a shattered tree by the Don to dry cooking gear, echoing an earlier feature on India’s pot-temple near Agra. Places: Agra, Don. Photo credit: Kriegsberichter Gerspach.
Trivia feature — „Haarige Sachen“ — three questions about hair: rococo wigs, hair standing on end, and the woman with the longest recorded hair, Anna Czillag.
Cartoon column — „Sowas kommt vor“ — captioned gag cartoons („Mein Freund hat mich zur Filmaufnahme eingeladen“, „Garantiert feuerfest“, „Wenn die Schleier fallen“, „Perspektive täuscht“). Artist: Walter Fuchs.
Puzzles — „Raten und Denken“ — a Sinnspruch nach Punkten and a Kryptogramm, plus a „Schach“ chess column analysing a game (White: Dr. O. Nigg) from a correspondence tournament. Solutions to the previous issue’s (Folge 17) Silbenversteck, Rösselsprung, and Magisches Quadrat are also printed.
Anecdote — „Das viele Wasser!“ — two short historical anecdotes about Marshal Mac Mahon.
Photo feature — „Wenn’s dem Neger zu heiß wird —“ — on how Africans cool off and bathe in the heat, with photos from the Ägyptischer Sudan, Deutsch-Ostafrika (Wanyakyusa children), Liberia, and Ceylon. Photo credits: Archiv „Kolonie und Heimat“, Lindt, Cohnitz, Bernatzik.
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