Description
Münchner Illustrierte Presse – Number 40, 7 October 1943
Scanned pages: 12 | Instant PDF download
Historical German illustrated weekly magazine, digitized.
Cover
Two German Red Cross nurses bottle-feeding a fawn in the garden of a front-line field hospital in the East, captioned „Mütterliche Schwestern”. Photo: SS-Kriegsberichter Niquille.
Main Articles
„Der Staatsakt für Generalkommissar Kube”
Photo of the state funeral in the Mosaic Hall of the New Reich Chancellery for Wilhelm Kube, General Commissioner for White Ruthenia, with Reich Minister Rosenberg giving the eulogy.
Photos: Kriegsberichter Schilling (HH), Weltbild.
„An der dalmatinischen Küste”
Photos of German guns firing on a partisan-held island from the harbor of Zara and anti-aircraft guns manned by Italian Fascist volunteers.
Photos: Kriegsberichter Schilling (HH), Weltbild.
„Reichsminister Rust 60 Jahre alt”
Portrait marking the 60th birthday of Bernhard Rust, Reich Minister for Science, Education and National Culture, on 30 September.
Photos: Kriegsberichter Schilling (HH), Weltbild.
„Der Handstreich auf Spitzbergen”
Photo report on the German naval and grenadier raid on Spitsbergen, showing the shelling of Barentsburg, troops in the destroyed settlement and captured prisoners.
War correspondent: Kriegsberichter Rehor (Atl.).
„Aus der Abwehrschlacht”
Photo report from the Eastern Front defensive battles, showing Soviet prisoners, a captured Soviet assault gun examined by SS Panzergrenadiers and a straw-camouflaged Tiger tank.
War correspondent: SS-Kriegsberichter Adendorf.
„Deutsche Truppen in Tirana”
Photo report on German troops entering the Albanian capital Tirana after the Italian armistice, including scenes on Skanderbeg Square.
War correspondents: Kriegsberichter Groh (HH) and Gruber (HH).
„Torheit der Jugend”
9th installment of the serialized novel following young Hallo Bruhn and his father, the consul, as they set off by ship from Italy toward the Orient.
Author: Erich Ebermayer (all rights Karl H. Bischoff-Verlag, Vienna).
„Staatsschauspieldirektor Otto Falckenberg”
Portrait marking the 70th birthday on 5 October of Otto Falckenberg, director of the Munich Kammerspiele.
Photo: Hanns Holdt.
„Siegesflug des Sonnenbanners”
Serialized account of the 1942 Japanese campaign after the fall of Singapore, covering paratroop landings at Palembang on Sumatra and the minesweepers and student parliamentarians at Tarakan.
Prepared with the Military Office of the Imperial Japanese Embassy in Berlin with support from Oberstleutnant Hisashi Nishi (Copyright Duncker-Verlag, Berlin).
„Rätsel”
Puzzle page with fill-in, crossword, syllable and knight’s-move puzzles, plus solutions to the previous issue.
No author credited.
„Auf Gefechtsstationen!”
Final installment of a U-boat commander’s account of patrols against England and America, ending with the boat’s return to Kiel and Bremen.
Author: Kapitänleutnant Reinhard Hardegen.
„Immensee”
Photo feature on the Ufa color film based on Theodor Storm’s novella, directed by Veit Harlan and starring Kristina Söderbaum, Carl Raddatz and Käthe Dyckhoff.
Photos: Ufa.
„Mit Pinsel und Palette”
Page of humorous cartoons about painters and their models.
Drawings and text: Rudolf Schwarz.
Artists Mentioned
- Rudolf Schwarz – cartoon page „Mit Pinsel und Palette” (drawings and text)
War Correspondents (Kriegsberichter) Named
- SS-Kriegsberichter Niquille – cover photo
- Kriegsberichter Schilling (HH) – Kube state funeral, Dalmatian coast, Rust portrait page
- Kriegsberichter Rehor (Atl.) – „Der Handstreich auf Spitzbergen”
- SS-Kriegsberichter Adendorf – „Aus der Abwehrschlacht”
- Kriegsberichter Groh (HH) – „Deutsche Truppen in Tirana”
- Kriegsberichter Gruber (HH) – „Deutsche Truppen in Tirana”