Cover illustration: (from left to right, from top to bottom): 1. Advertisement for hormone preparations Obahorumon and Enarumon in Manchuria Graph February 1940, 29; 2. Photo of ‘future mothers’ in the article ‘Physical training in wartime’, in NIPPON 33, 1943, 34 (also included as Fig. 7.8); 3. Front cover of Die junge Dame (The young lady). DjD 23 February 1943(11.4), 1. Photos: SS-PK van Immerseel, Else Nied (also included as Fig. 6.7); 4. Countess Natalia Mola and Museum Director Gabriel Engberg in the Exhibition of Italian Women Artists at the Tampere Art Museum, in October 1937. Photo: Tamminen. Source: Vapriikki Photo Archive, Tampere (also included as Fig. 12.1); 5. Ruth Williams Ricci in front of a newly constructed Casa del Fascio in Italian East Africa (1939). Source: HILA, RERp, b. 7, f. 7, sf. 5 (also included as Fig. 13.4); 6. Photo from Nishimura's photo line up to prove his ‘mixed-race’ theory, published in NIPPON 27, 1941, 40-41 (also included as Fig. 7.7); 7. Ruth Williams Ricci on the road in Ethiopia with Badoglio's column (1936). Source: HILA, RERp, Env. G. (also included as Fig. 13.2); 8. Two soldiers during a cigarette break. BIZ 19 September 1940 (49.38), 942. Photo: PK Grimm-Deutscher Verlag (also included as Fig. 6.6).
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