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Kolonie und Heimat
Die deutsche koloniale Bilderzeitung
Dienstag, 2. Februar 1943 • 7. Jahrgang • Folge 3
Verlag des Reichskolonialbundes, München

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Cover Page

Caption: „Heiß Flagge und Wimpel!“ (“Hoist Flag and Pennant!”), with subtitle noting that new U-boats are continually being commissioned to strike the enemy still more effectively.
Subject: Two German naval officers on the conning tower of a U-boat, one hoisting the naval war ensign.
Location: Atlantic (U-boat at sea).
Photo credit: PK-Aufnahme: Kriegsberichter Kratochwil-Atl.

Major Headlines & Content

10 Jahre (10 Years) — by Ds. Propaganda retrospective marking the tenth anniversary of the Nazi seizure of power on 30 January 1933, framed around Adolf Hitler’s ten-point ideological legacy, illustrated with maps showing German territorial expansion from 1 January 1933 to 1 January 1943.

Heimkehr von erster Feindfahrt (Homecoming from First War Patrol) — Reichsleiter General Ritter von Epp inspects a U-boat base on the Atlantic and welcomes home the crew of a U-boat that sank eleven ships totalling 57,000 BRT on its first patrol; von Epp boards the vessel and greets the commander. Photo credits: Dietrich.

Sprit und Munition für Nordafrika (Fuel and Ammunition for North Africa) — Report on dockworkers loading fuel canisters and ammunition crates onto Africa transport ships, describing the sinking of an Allied tanker fleet bound from Trinidad to Gibraltar with over 174,000 tons of fuel. Photo credits: Kriegsberichter Pietzsch.

Souveränes Nationalchina (Sovereign National China) — On Nationalist China’s declaration of war against Britain and the USA and Japan’s renunciation of extraterritorial rights in China, discussing the legacy of revolutionary Sunwen (Sun Yat-sen) and the government of Wangtschingwei. Named individuals: Wangtschingwei (President), Sunwen/Dr. Sunjatsen, General Tschiangkaischek. Locations: Nanking, Peking, Canton, Hongkong. Photo credits: Atlantic, W. Cohnitz.

Die Schüsse in Algier (The Shots in Algiers) — Account of the assassination of Admiral Darlan in Algiers, recounting his wartime record of betrayal — including his 1940 troop-transit plan through Belgium and his dealings with Laval, Pétain and the Allies — and speculating on the British Secret Service’s role. Named individuals: Admiral Darlan, Pierre Laval, Marshal Pétain, General de Gaulle, Admiral Leahy, Anthony Eden, Cordell Hull, General Giraud. Locations: Algier, Vichy, Paris, Casablanca. Continues on page 34.

Other Content

Science feature — „Entdeckungsreise auf dem Globus“ (Voyage of Discovery on the Globe) — explains the distortions of map projections versus a true globe, with historical notes on Gerhard Mercator and Martin Behaim, the maker of the first terrestrial globe (1492). Illustrations by Schuberth-Goebel.
Curiosities feature — „Streifzug nach Seltsamkeiten“ (Excursion into Curiosities) — two items: a roadrunner’s fight against a rattlesnake in Texas and Mexico, and a piece on the statue-adorned ruins and cave dwellings of Médenine and Matmata in Tunisia.
Medical column — „Aus der Praxis des Tropenarztes: Vom Wolf und Roten Hund“ (From a Tropical Doctor’s Practice: Of Chafing and Prickly Heat) by Dr. H. Gr. — on skin ailments caused by sweating in the tropics.
Anecdote — „Der unsterbliche Moutopoulos“ (The Immortal Moutopoulos) by Egon A. Humann — a humorous colonial anecdote about a Greek overseer named Moutopoulos in Bagamojo, East Africa, believed by local workers to be immortal.
Cartoon spread — „Das Experiment“ — short comic strip; drawings by Dondo.
Feature — „Hokus Pokus: Hohe Politik, höhere Magie“ — on the history of stage magic and its brushes with politics and famous figures, including Kant, Goethe, Kaiser Wilhelm I, the magician Robert Houdin’s mission to Algiers, and Frederick the Great’s magician Philadelphia.
Humour column — „Es flüstert die Wildnis“ (The Wilderness Whispers) — short animal cartoon jokes; drawings by Dondo.
Puzzles — „Raten und Denken“ — word puzzles and a chess problem composed by the late Berlin master Curt Moll. Solutions to the previous issue’s puzzles (Folge 2) also printed.
Photo feature — „Schlangenfang in Kamerun“ (Snake-Catching in Cameroon) — the Baia people of the Djerem river in central Cameroon trap and catch giant pythons using woven liana baskets. Photo credits: Ernst A. Zeißling.

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