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KOLONIE UND HEIMAT
Die deutsche koloniale Bilderzeitung
6. Jahrgang • Folge 22 • München, 20. Oktober 1942
Verlag des Reichskolonialbundes, München — published for the Reichskolonialbund e.V., Berlin
12 pages scanned. Instant PDF download.
Preis 20 Pfennig (Frei Haus 22 Pfennig) — fortnightly illustrated magazine of the German colonial movement

Cover Page

Caption: “Bei unseren Gebirgsjägern — Eine B-Stelle im Schnee und Fels des Kaukasus auf 4200 Meter Höhe.” (“With our mountain troops — An observation post in the snow and rock of the Caucasus at 4200 metres.”)
Subject: Two German mountain infantrymen (Gebirgsjäger) at a forward observation post among snow-covered peaks.
Location: Caucasus mountains, Eastern Front.
Photo credit: PK-Aufnahme: Kriegsberichter Rieder (Wb.).

Major Headlines & Content

„Wir sind blockadefest“ (“We are blockade-proof”) — Propaganda piece built around Reichsmarschall Göring’s harvest-festival speech, illustrated with a map of European food and raw-material resources under German control, claiming self-sufficiency despite the Allied blockade. Names: Reichsmarschall Göring, Reichsaußenminister von Ribbentrop. Places: Ukraine, Krim, Kaukasus, Don, Wolga.

SS baut eine Brücke (SS builds a bridge) — Photo feature on Waffen-SS pioneers constructing a new bridge over a river just behind the Eastern Front, showing the felling and placement of iron girders. Photo credits: Melters, Mauritius.

Marseille (Marseille) — Tribute to Luftwaffe fighter ace Hauptmann Hans-Joachim Marseille, killed on 1 October after 158 victories in North Africa; recalls his record of 17 kills in one day over the desert and his burial at Derna. Photo credit: Weltbild.

Werkstatt in der Wüste (Workshop in the desert) — Report on a repair-company unit stationed near El Alamein rapidly restoring damaged vehicles for the fighting troops, with engine and bodywork repair shown. Photo credit: Linden (Presse-Bild-Zentrale).

Feuer und Vernichtung / Staub und Hitze (Fire and destruction / Dust and heat) — Two battle photographs from the Stalingrad front: burning city blocks under sustained artillery and Luftwaffe bombardment, and a horse-drawn supply column advancing through dust toward the Volga bend. Photo credits: Kriegsberichter Herber, Kriegsberichter Kipper.

Other Content

Feature — “Verbotene Städte” — illustrated feature on the world’s forbidden or closed cities: Mecca, Medina, Lhasa, and Peking, with photographs of the Kaaba and the Potala.
Serial — “In den Klauen der Gaullisten” (2nd instalment). Diary account, purportedly by Sergeant Patrick de Spens, of French Gaullist deserters and adventurers in Gabon and their recruitment schemes; continues on a later page.

Nature feature — “Streifzug nach Seltsamkeiten” — short piece on the springhare of South Africa, “the mouse that is faster than a horse.”

Column — “Aus der Praxis des Tropenarztes” — tropical-medicine column on the dangers of bathing outdoors in the tropics and the risk of bilharzia infection, by Dr. H. G.

Cartoon spread — “Märchen aus dem Morgenlande” — short cartoon strip with Middle Eastern-themed jokes about Rommel and the war in North Africa.
News column — “Die Welt unterm Brennglas” — short world items, including a note on Madagascar’s geography and colonial resources.

Feature — “Großfilm ‘Erde’” — popular-science piece framing the age of the Earth and evolution as a 24-hour film, tied to a documentary release.
Humour cartoons — “Mit Frauen fährt man gut” — short jokes and cartoon gags, drawings by Schuberth-Goebel.

Photo feature — “Schwarze Künstler” — photo essay on craft traditions in Fumban, Cameroon: embroidery, wood carving, and cast-brass figures. Photo credits: Erich Anders (Tschira).

Puzzles — “Raten und Denken” — letter-shift puzzle, cryptogram, and a chess problem (“Schach”).

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