Description
Kolonie und Heimat
Die deutsche koloniale Bilderzeitung
Dienstag, 2. März 1943 • 7. Jahrgang • Folge 5
Verlag des Reichskolonialbundes, München 2, Brienner Straße 10
12 pages scanned
Preis 20 Pfennig, frei Haus 22 Pfennig
Cover Page
Caption: “Nach geschlagener Schlacht im Mittelmeer” (“After a battle won in the Mediterranean”)
Subject: A wounded German U-boat sailor on deck, head bandaged, smoking a cigarette, standing beside a deck gun with binoculars slung around his neck; other crew members visible behind him. Caption text notes German U-boats again dealt heavy blows to an enemy transport fleet and successfully repelled enemy air attacks.
Location: Mittelmeer (Mediterranean Sea)
Photo credit: PK-Aufnahme: Kriegsberichter Mehl (OKW-Archiv)
Major Headlines & Content
U-Boote vor Afrika (U-boats off Africa) — Article on the year-long U-boat campaign along the African coast, describing the shift of Allied supply routes around the Cape of Good Hope after Mediterranean losses, and rising sinking totals off West and South Africa. Includes a map of sinking locations and supply bases around the African continent and a satirical cartoon of Churchill inspecting a ship launch. Named individual: J. Weitmann, Oberleutnant, M.A. (author). Places: Gibraltar, Alexandrien, Kapstadt, Westafrika, Karibische See, Indischer Ozean, Mosambik, Nadelkap (Kap Agulhas).
Treibgut im Atlantik (Flotsam in the Atlantic) — Photo feature on wreckage and survivors from Allied transports sunk by German U-boats in the Caribbean Sea, showing rescued American sailors being taken aboard a U-boat and salvaged crates recovered as flotsam. Place: Karibisches Meer. Photo credits: PK Weiß (2), W. Schwarz (1), Archiv OKW.
Frische Kräfte für die Ostfront (Fresh forces for the Eastern Front) — Photo spread of German troops disembarking from transport aircraft as reinforcements rushed to threatened points on the Eastern Front against Soviet assaults, paired with a photo of a bunker village hidden in the winter steppe near the front. Photo credits: Kriegsberichter Sperling (Atl.); Kriegsberichter Hermann (Atl.).
„Alaska“ Europas (Europe’s “Alaska”) — Feature on the Arctic colonisation of northern Scandinavia, covering iron-ore mining at Kiruna and Malmberget, fishing at the Lofoten islands, and pioneer farming settlement in the Troms-Inland region near Narvik. Named individual: V. Pantenburg (author). Places: Narvik, Kiruna, Malmberget, Gällivare, Kirkenes, Lofoten, Troms-Inland, Hammerfest, Tromsø.
Tunis-Riegel — Yankeenöte (Tunis barrier — Yankee troubles) — Propaganda article mocking the Allied campaign in Tunisia and American conduct in North Africa, with caricatures of Allied commanders. Named individuals with rank/role: General Dwight D. Eisenhower (Allied Commander-in-Chief), Generalleutnant Clark, General Anderson, General Giraud, General Juin (referred to as “der Verräter von Algier”). Places: Tunis, Biserta, Casablanca, Marokko, Algier, Schott-el-Scherib, Sfax. Illustrations: Burgfeldt.
Other Content
Column — “Streifzug nach Seltsamkeiten” — short items on curiosities of colonial life, including a piece on North African greeting customs and a natural-history note on the aye-aye (Fingertier) of Madagascar. Named individual: Dr. Bg. (author). Places: Tunis, Marokko, Madagaskar.
Medical column — “Aus der Praxis des Tropenarztes” — piece explaining the difference between true scabies (Krätze) and mite infestations mistaken for it (Trugkrätze), aimed at colonial/tropical settings. Named individual: Dr. H. Gr. (author).
Cartoon spread — “Feine Herren!” — satirical cartoon strip mocking the manners of American soldiers stationed in North Africa. Artist: Burgfeldt.
Feature — “Männer in der Einsamkeit” — short prose pieces on men in isolation: a deep-sea diver’s account of pressure at extreme depth, the story of a Spaniard marooned alone on a Peruvian guano island, and an anecdote about a released prisoner from before the French Revolution. Mentions Marie Antoinette, Ludwig XVI, Ludwig XVIII, Napoleon, Karl X, Louis Philippe.
Photo feature — “Safari” — photo spread on African porter caravans carrying goods on foot through the interior, illustrating scenes from the forthcoming Ufa film “Germanin” (production group M. W. Kimmich) about German colonial medical work. Photo credit: Ufa-Krahnert.
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