Description
Kolonie und Heimat
Dienstag, 6. Oktober 1942 · 6. Jahrgang · Folge 21
Reichskolonialbund e.V., Berlin; Verlag des Reichskolonialbundes, München
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Cover Page
Caption: “Ein deutscher Kradmelder erfrischt sich an den köstlichen kaukasischen Trauben” (“A German motorcycle despatch rider refreshes himself with delicious Caucasian grapes”)
Subject: A German army motorcycle courier eating a bunch of grapes, wearing goggles and a field cap.
Location: Caucasus region (implied by caption).
Photo credit: Atlantic.
Major Headlines & Content
Strategie der Katastrophen (Strategy of Catastrophes) — Commentary on the war situation as the German advance nears Stalingrad, mocking Allied setbacks at Dieppe, Tobruk, and in Arctic and Coral Sea convoy battles, and Churchill and Roosevelt’s unmet promises to Stalin. Named: Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, Harriman, Rommel; British Navy Minister Knox mentioned regarding the Coral Sea. Places: Stalingrad, Moskau, Salomoninseln, Dieppe, Tobruk, Ägypten, Nordafrika, Kaukasus, Polarmeer, Korallenmeer. Photo credits: PK-Aufnahmen Luftwaffe, Bauer, Krempl, Grimm-Kastein (sämtl. Atlantic); Taurog-Atl.
Italiener erschließen Libyen (Italians Open Up Libya) — Article by Ernst Kienitz on the history of Italian exploration and colonisation of Libya, from early missionaries through to Marschall Italo Balbo’s aerial surveys of Cyrenaica. Named: Antonio Maltane, Benedetto di Domenico Dei, Carlo Maria (Genua), Severino und Agostino Cervelli, Dr. Paolo della Cella, Hauptmann Camperio, Dr. Giuseppe Haimann, Marschall Italo Balbo. Places: Tripolitanien, Cyrenaika, Apollonia, Oase Kufra, Tibesti. Photo credits: Seiler, Scherl, Weltbild, Holzapfel.
Der Urwald wird vermessen (The Jungle Is Being Surveyed) — Feature on land surveyors mapping dense African rainforest to open the way for roads, bridges and railways, working through heat, insects and swamp. Photo credit: Tschira.
Schatzkammern der Erde (Treasure Chambers of the Earth) — Two-page feature on the world’s gold, diamonds and gemstones, from Pizarro’s conquest of the Inca gold to modern mining in South Africa, Brazil and Burma. Named: Francisco Pizarro, Atahualpa (the Inca). Places: Peru, Cuzco, Guatavita, Südafrika, Katanga, Kimberley, Pretoria, Brasilien, Indien, Neuguinea, Australien, Alaska, Kalifornien, Ophir, Jemen, Birma, Ceylon. Photo credits: Scherl, Seiler; Zeichnung: Schuberth-Goebel.
In den Klauen der Gaullisten (In the Claws of the Gaullists) — Subtitled “Meuterer – Abenteurer – Postenjäger,” a first-instalment serialised diary account attributed to Sergeant Patrick de Spens, a French sergeant held by Gaullist forces in Gabun, describing interrogation, propaganda and life under Free French administration in French Equatorial Africa. Named: General de Gaulle, Marschall Pétain, Churchill, Roosevelt, Delange (interrogating officer), Weill, Louis-Charles Royer. Places: Gabun, Brazzaville, Libreville, Lambarene, Point-Noire, Duala, Kamerun. Continues across further instalments (“Fortsetzung folgt”).
Other Content
Cartoon strip — “Landungsnot in Swakopmund” — four-panel humorous strip about a shipwreck landing at Swakopmund. Artist signature partly illegible (Steingrübel or similar).
Humour column — “Das ist mir in die Nase gestiegen” — four trivia questions and answers about scents and smell, including perfume, musk and the animal with the keenest sense of smell.
Cartoon spread — “Wenn ich nur wüßte…” — single-panel gag cartoons on everyday mishaps. Artist: Walter Fuchs.
Science/curiosities feature — “Streifzug nach Seltsamkeiten” — short pieces on the aardvark’s resemblance to an anteater and on the Venus’ flower basket sponge (Euplectella aspergillum). Photo credit: Techno-Photographisches Archiv (Herzberg); text by Dr. Bg.
Advice column — “Aus der Praxis des Tropenarztes: Leibbinde oder nicht?” — a tropical-medicine doctor discusses whether colonial travellers should wear an abdominal binder. By Dr. H.G.
Photo feature — “Auf den Terrassen des Erdbeerkönigs” — feature on a Japanese farmer near Sizuoka who pioneered terraced, heated strawberry beds allowing winter harvests. Photo credit: Werner Cohnitz.
Puzzles — “Raten und Denken” — a syllable puzzle (Silbenrätsel) and a chess problem (Zweizüger von Hauptm. A. Knauer) with an annotated master game (Potemkin vs. Dr. Aljechin, Sizilianische Verteidigung). Solutions to previous issue’s puzzles also printed.
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