Description
Kolonie und Heimat
Die Deutsche koloniale Bilderzeitung
Dienstag, 1. Dezember 1942 · 6. Jahrgang · Folge 25
Verlag des Reichskolonialbundes, München 2, Brienner Straße 10
12 pages scanned
Preis 20 Pfennig (Frei Haus 22 Pfennig)
Cover Page
Caption: “Scharfe Wache” (“Sharp Watch”) — accompanying text credits German naval forces and their torpedoes (“dangerous eels”) with sinking 20 million tons of enemy shipping.
Subject: Silhouette of a German sailor scanning the sea with binoculars aboard a ship at dusk.
Location: Atlantic (aboard a naval vessel).
Photo credit: PK-Aufnahme Kröncke-Atlantik.
Major Headlines & Content
Raub und Gegenschlag (Robbery and Counterblow) — Account of the Allied landings in French North Africa (Operation Torch), framed as an Anglo-American plot against Rommel’s forces and French colonial territory. Names General Anderson (British 1st Army) and Rommel; references the Darlan-Giraud affair. Locations: Marseille, Korsika (Corsica), Gibraltar, Tunis.
Marokko – Algerien (Morocco – Algeria) — Survey of France’s North African colonies and their strategic and economic significance following the Allied landings. Locations: Fort Agadir, Casablanca, Oran, Algier (Algiers).
Gefährliche Aale (Dangerous Eels) — History of the torpedo, from its invention by Fregattenkapitän Luppius to its use in the First and current World War. Names: Kaleun Hersing (U 21), Weddigen (U 9). Photo credits: Kriegsberichter Stephan-Atl., Dr. Frank-Atl., Atlantik.
Nippons Soldaten (Japan’s Soldiers) — Feature on the training and Bushido-derived martial spirit of the Japanese army, covering infantry, cavalry, and Kendo drill. Photo credit: Aufnahmen Cohnitz.
300 Jahre Kampf um Madagaskar (300 Years of Struggle for Madagascar) — Multi-page history of Anglo-French rivalry over Madagascar since 1642, following the British occupation of the island in 1942. Named individuals: Diego Suarez, Kardinal Richelieu, Benyowsky, Radama II, Rasoherina, Ranavalona I–III, Jean Laborde, Rainilairovony, General Galliéni. Locations: Diego-Suarez, Fort Dauphin, Tananarive (Tananarive/Antananarivo).
Other Content
Fiction serial — Der Stachelschweinzauber (“The Porcupine Magic”) by Dr. A. Baron v. Pölnitz. A hunting and sorcery tale set on a cotton plantation in colonial Africa near the Serengeti, involving the narrator, an Englishman named Brew Milford, and a native named Kelélé Nungu accused of porcupine-hunting sorcery. Continues across two pages. Illustration by Schuberth-Goebel.
Science/medical article — Aus der Praxis des Tropenarztes: Der kühle Labetrunk — on the dangers and hygiene of drinking water in the tropics, by Dr. H. G.
Curiosities feature — Streifzug nach Seltsamkeiten: Die Königin mit den Elefantenbeinen — brief items on water-carrying customs in Assam and the Kalahari, and an ornamented Ruanda queen. Photo credits: Führer-Haimendorf, Sammlung Seiler.
Cartoon spread — Bilder ohne Worte — a wordless four-panel comic strip.
Cartoon spread — Männer auf Urlaub — humorous drawings of soldiers on leave, by Schuberth-Goebel.
Humour column — Geschichten am Rand der Geschichte — short historical trivia anecdotes (Spanish queen’s stockings, the ransom of Emperor Pertinax, Napoleon crossing the Red Sea).
Photo feature — Mädchen wirbeln durch die Luft — photo feature on a ceremonial girl-tossing ritual among Yaouba people near the Liberian border. Photo credit: Sammlung Seiler.
Puzzles — Raten und Denken — crossword-style word puzzles, a cryptogram, and a chess problem. Solutions to the previous issue’s (Folge 24) puzzles also printed.
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