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Kolonie und Heimat
Die deutsche koloniale Bilderzeitung
Dienstag, 3. November 1942 • 6. Jahrgang • Folge 23
Verlag des Reichskolonialbundes, München 2, Brienner Straße 10
12 pages scanned
Cover Page
Caption: “U-Bootsmänner in Khaki” (“U-boat Men in Khaki”) — subtitle: “werden von ihrem Stützpunktleiter verabschiedet, ehe sie zu neuer Feindfahrt ins Mittelmeer auslaufen” (“bid farewell by their base commander before setting out on a new war patrol into the Mediterranean”)
Subject: U-boat crewmen in tropical khaki uniform shaking hands and being sent off by their base commander before departure.
Location: Mediterranean (U-boat base)
Photo credit: PK.-Aufnahme: Kriegsberichter W. Essig (BP.)
Major Headlines & Content
Dakar — Feature on Dakar as the capital of French West Africa and its strategic importance for Atlantic sea routes and U-boat operations, framed as a target of American imperial ambition following the occupation of Liberia; includes a companion piece on “Liberia” describing US military build-up there. Places: Dakar, Natal (Brazil), Bathurst, Freetown, Monrovia, Casablanca, Kapstadt. Photo credits: Archiv RKB.
Götter und Girls… (Gods and Girls…), subtitled “Zwei Nationen — Zwei Welten” (Two Nations — Two Worlds) — Propaganda contrast piece comparing solemn Shinto send-off ceremonies for Japanese soldiers at the Kasuga shrine near Nara with a beauty-pageant crowning of a “Queen of National Defense” in the United States. Named individual: Leutnant Kawasaki. Places: Nara, Japan; Southern California, USA. Photo credits: Werner Cohnitz, Scherl.
Bomben auf Kufra (Bombs on Kufra) and “Der ‘Löwe von Capuzzo'” (“The Lion of Capuzzo”) — Report on a German air raid on the Kufra oasis forts, paired with a profile of Hauptmann Johannes Kümmel, a panzer battalion commander awarded the Oak Leaves (Eichenlaub) to the Knight’s Cross on 11 October 1942 for actions at Capuzzo, Tobruk and El Alamein; born 21 July 1909 in Coswig, Saxony. Text: Oberfeldwebel Becker. Places: Kufra, Capuzzo, Tobruk, El Alamein. Photo credits: Kriegsberichter Laubenthal, Herlort (EP).
Hochzeit in der Ukraine (Wedding in Ukraine) — Photo-feature on a traditional village wedding ceremony in German-occupied Ukraine, framed in the context of a speech by Hitler opening the 1942/43 Kriegswinterhilfswerk. Place: Ukraine. Photo credits: Hartmann (Mauritius).
Entschleierter Nil (The Unveiled Nile) — Two-page feature on the geography and history of the Nile, covering the search for its sources, the Aswan dam, seasonal flooding, and the temple island of Philae. Places: Nile, Aswan, Philae, Lake Victoria, Uganda. Photo credits: Scherl, Weltbild, Seiler.
Other Content
Serial feature (concluding instalment) — “In den Klauen der Gaullisten: Meuterer — Abenteurer — Postenjäger” (In the Claws of the Gaullists: Mutineers — Adventurers — Post-Hunters), presented as “Aus dem Tagebuch des Sergeanten Patrick de Spens” (From the Diary of Sergeant Patrick de Spens) — anti-Gaullist propaganda diary set in French Equatorial Africa, naming Larminat, General de Gaulle, Governor M. Carlos Roca del Vale, the novelist Georges Simenon, and writer Jean Damase. Places: Gabon, Brazzaville, Libreville, Batchenga, Spanish Guinea, Rio Benito.
Miscellany — “Streifzug nach Seltsamkeiten” (A Ramble Through Curiosities): a short note on the tailorbird (by J. Bergner), and “Eine alte Kultur in Westafrika” on the Benin bronzes seized during the 1897 British punitive expedition.
Medical column — “Aus der Praxis des Tropenarztes: Täglich Früchte und Salat?” (From a Tropical Doctor’s Practice: Fruit and Salad Every Day?) by Dr. H. G. — advice on fruit and vegetable hygiene in the tropics.
Cartoon strip — “Flieger unter sich” (Airmen Among Themselves), a four-panel gag strip about pilots and birds. Drawing signed “Dorn”.
News miscellany — “Die Welt unterm Brennglas” (The World Under the Magnifying Glass): short items on Liberia and Sierra Leone, and on a 1822 free-Black colonization society in Württemberg (“Ein Pfeffersack”).
Teaser — announcement of a forthcoming feature, “Im Britenhauptquartier in Kairo” (At British Headquarters in Cairo), to appear in the next issue.
Illustrated feature — “Saftiger Aufschnitt” (Juicy Cold Cuts), a selection of sketches from the 1895 Africa travel sketchbook of painter S. Ch. Windelmeier, reprinted courtesy of Verlag Braun & Schneider.
Feature — “Nomaden des Ozeans” (Nomads of the Ocean) — Feature on Arab, Persian, Indian and Goan dhow sailors and the monsoon trade along the East African coast. Places: Zanzibar, Mombasa, Dar es Salaam, Mozambique, Goa. Photo credits: Pasi.
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