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Kolonie und Heimat
Dienstag, 8. September 1942 • 6. Jahrgang • Folge 19
Reichskolonialbund e.V., Berlin — Verlag des Reichskolonialbundes, München 2, Brienner Straße 10
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Cover Page
Caption: „Alarm!“ — „Der großangelegte Versuch der Errichtung einer ‘Zweiten Front’ bei Dieppe scheiterte kläglich an der Wachsamkeit und Schlagkraft der deutschen Abwehr.“ (“Alarm! — The large-scale attempt to establish a ‘second front’ at Dieppe failed miserably against the vigilance and striking power of the German defence.”)
Subject: A German soldier sounding a hand-cranked air-raid/alarm siren mounted on a wooden post, looking upward alertly.
Location: Coastal defence position near Dieppe, France.
Photo credit: Kriegsberichter Kreutzer (PK-Aufnahme, Atl.).
Major Headlines & Content
Die Wolga von Gorki bis Stalingrad (The Volga from Gorki to Stalingrad) — Illustrated geographic feature on the Volga as Russia’s principal river and trade artery, covering oil transport from Baku, timber rafting, and the growth of Stalingrad as the centre of Soviet armaments industry (Traktorenwerk Traktorsawod, Barrikade, „Roter Oktober“). Places: Wolga, Nischnij-Nowgorod (Gorki), Astrachan, Baku, Batum, Rybinsk, Perm, Samara, Saratow, Stalingrad. Photo and text credit: Dr. Herrlich.
Deutsche Jugend im Lande der aufgehenden Sonne (German Youth in the Land of the Rising Sun) — Photo feature on the German colony’s youth in Yokohama, Japan, showing Easter egg hunts, a Turnfest (gymnastics festival) at the Deutsches Haus, and flag ceremonies marking German victories, framed as an expression of German–Japanese cultural friendship. Places: Yokohama, Japan. Photo credits: W. Cohnitz.
„Germanin“ (‘Germanin’) — Feature on the Ufa film „Germanin“, dramatizing the German discovery of a cure for African sleeping sickness (trypanosomiasis), with background on the disease, its parasite (Trypanosoma gambiense) and its vector (Glossina palpalis), and the 1913/14 discovery of „Bayer 205“ / Germanin by Bayer & Co. in Leverkusen. Named: Professor Achenbach (played by Peter Petersen), Anna Meinhardt (played by Lotte Koch), director M. W. Kimmich, Negerkönig Wapunga; the Oxford biologist Huxley is quoted praising the discovery. Photo credits: Foto Ufa — Krahnert.
„Schwarze Diamanten“ (‘Black Diamonds’) — Feature on karakul-sheep („Persianer“) pelt farming in Deutsch-Südwestafrika, marking the 80th birthday of former colonial governor Dr. h. c. Friedrich von Lindequist, who introduced the karakul sheep in 1905, and describing the industry’s growth to over a million pelts exported by 1938. Named: Dr. h. c. Friedrich von Lindequist, Adam and Eva Riesser (settlers at Osona). Places: Deutsch-Südwestafrika, Windhuk, Osona, Buchara. Text: Eva MacLean; photo credits: Ilse Steinhoff, Eva MacLean, Bildstelle RKB.
Über der Nahtstelle Zweier Kontinente (Over the Seam of Two Continents) — Aerial-photography feature over the Sinai peninsula and the Palestinian coast, showing the Suez Canal, ancient caravan routes, Nubian encampments, Gaza, Jerusalem, and the strategic ports of Suez and Akaba where the borders of Egypt, Palästina, Transjordanien and Saudi-Arabien meet. Places: Sinai, Suezkanal, Port Said, El Arisch, Gaza, Jerusalem, Jaffa, Haifa, Alexandria, El Alamein, Kairo, Akaba, Medina, Damaskus. Photo credits: Petschow.
Other Content
Fiction serial — „Liebe auf Elefantenpfaden“ by Josef Viera (Schluß; conclusion). Final instalment of the light novel set among coffee planters in Deutsch-Ostafrika, resolving the romance between Hensing and Eva, and between the servant boy Marele and Yarima.
Cartoon spread — „Italien lacht“ — three short gag cartoons on wartime Italian humour, referencing captured Allied tanks and bombing raids on the pyramids.
Nature feature — „Das größte Gras der Welt“ — on giant bamboo of Malaya and Ceylon and its many traditional uses. Photo credit: Techno-Photographisches Archiv, Herzberg.
Nature feature — „Fallschirmspringer in den Tropen“ — on the colugo („Flattermaki“ or „Pelzflatterer“), a gliding mammal of the tropics. Author: Dr. J. B.; photo credit: Techno-Photographisches Archiv, Herzberg.
Trivia feature — „Mir stockt der Atem —!“ — four illustrated trivia questions on breath and breathing-related topics: why Schiller liked the smell of apples, whether anger can kill, whether fish can walk on land, and whether trees can sing.
Cartoon column — „… heiter ist die Kunst!“ — captioned gag cartoons about artists and models („Katalog Nr. 1260: Weiblicher Akt“, „Was dem einen sin Uhl …“, „Rücksicht“, „Marmorbilder sehn Dich an“). Artist: Schuberth-Goebel.
Puzzles — „Raten und Denken“ — a Zahlenrätsel and a Silbenversteck, plus a „Schach“ chess problem (Aufgabe by L. Gabler, Veitsbuch). Solutions to the previous issue’s (Folge 18) Sinnspruch nach Punkten and Kryptogramm are also printed.
Photo feature — „Streichholz-Ernte“ — on match manufacturing at a large factory near Colombo, Ceylon, and the primitive working conditions of its Singhalese workforce. Photo credits: Werner Cohnitz.
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