Description
Nachrichten aus dem Wehrkreis XI für Feld und Heimat – Number (November/Dezember-Heft), 1939
Scanned pages: 16 | Instant PDF download
Historical German Wehrmacht regional magazine (Wehrkreis XI, Hannover) for field and home front, digitized.
Cover
“Die Fahnen und Standarten unseres Korps” – troops parading with regimental flags and standards past cheering crowds in Berlin, 1939. Photo credit: Aufn. W. Haulschild. No war correspondent credited on the cover.
Main Articles
“Von der Warthe bis Warschau” – Das hannoversche Infanterie-Regiment im polnischen Feldzug
A detailed campaign narrative tracing a Hanoverian infantry regiment’s advance through Poland in September 1939, from the crossing of the Warthe River through the Bzura battles to the fall of Warsaw.
No single named author; photo credits: Aufn. Atlantic, Aufn. Scherl-Bilderdienst, Aufn. PK-Stempka (Scherl-Bilderdienst). Officers named killed in action: Oberstleutnant Hoehne, Hauptmann Haupt. Also named: Hauptmann v. Schmeling-Dieringshofen (fell later), Leutnant Dr. Simons, Lt. Kreusler (killed), Oblt. Grün (wounded).
“Die Schlacht bei Kock”
Account of the battle near Kock in early October 1939, the encirclement of Polish General Kleeberg’s forces at Serokomla, and the negotiated capitulation of the last major Polish field army.
No author named; photo credit: Aufn. PK-Pohle-Presse-Bild-Zentrale.
“Frühmorgens auf Feldwache” (poem)
A short poem describing a soldier standing watch at dawn on hostile ground in Poland.
Author: Wilhelm Kaune-Ahstedt.
“Vergessen in allen Berichten” – Der kleine, tapfere Sani (Sanitätssoldat)
A tribute to an unassuming medical soldier (“Sani”) who tirelessly helped and cared for his comrades throughout the Polish campaign, and was fatally wounded rescuing another soldier under fire.
Author: Gefreiter Karl Heinz Rage.
“Ein Lazarettzug traf ein” – Kranke und Verwundete fanden Aufnahme in unseren Reservelazaretten
Describes the arrival of hospital trains in Hannover carrying sick and wounded soldiers from the front, and their care by DRK nurses and BDM/Hitlerjugend volunteers in the reserve hospitals.
Photo credit: Aufn. W. Haulschild.
“Generalfeldmarschall von Mackensen 90 Jahre”
A biographical tribute marking Field Marshal August von Mackensen’s 90th birthday, reviewing his career from the VII Army Corps through his World War I command of the Ninth Army and postwar internment in Salonika.
Author credited only by initials: Kri. Photo credit: Aufn. Scherl-Bilderdienst.
“Wir erlebten Polen!” – Zwei Tage Augustow
A first-person account of a two-day engagement near Augustów during the Polish campaign, describing a night-time advance, encirclement of retreating Polish forces, and the eventual capture of prisoners and equipment.
Author: Oberleutnant Grob. Photo credit: Aufn. Scherl-Bilderdienst.
“An alle Kameraden!”
An editorial note explaining the magazine’s purpose as a spiritual link between soldiers at the front and their families at home, and inviting reader contributions.
No author named.
“Zu Leutnanten d. L. a. D. ernannt”
A roster listing veterans awarded the honorary rank of Leutnant der Landwehr a. D. on the 25th anniversary of the Battle of Tannenberg, for holders of the Prussian Gold Military Merit Cross.
“Vier Wochen Gefangenschaft in Polen!”
A first-person account by a German soldier describing four weeks as a prisoner of the Poles in Łódź and Warsaw before being freed as German forces closed in on Warsaw.
Author: Schütze Petri.
Artists Mentioned
No illustrators, engravers, or woodcut artists are credited in this issue; all illustrated content consists of photographs, credited to photo agencies (Atlantic, Scherl-Bilderdienst, PK-Stempka, PK-Pohle-Presse-Bild-Zentrale, W. Haulschild).
War Correspondents (Kriegsberichter) Named
No contributor is explicitly credited with the title “Kriegsberichter” in this issue, though several photographs are credited to Propagandakompanie (PK) photographers (PK-Stempka, PK-Pohle) via the Presse-Bild-Zentrale and Scherl-Bilderdienst agencies.