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71) Christmas (2)

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... and here, as promised by Smiley ...
the second part of Christmas time .. and .. although for the last hundred years

Christmas was celebrated in most families still happily Around 1900. could
The city had developed from a farming town to a small industrial city next to the affluent middle class emerged a self-conscious working class, which also have a degree of prosperity.
of the census of 12.01.1900 Mühlhausen had 33 428 inhabitants. The population had thus almost tripled over 1850.

was now in many families the advent calendar mode, however, was initially provided only with colorful pictures behind the festivals.
lyrics .. ".. .. Tomorrow's children will give you something" ever voted one for Christmas.
The severe winter and the abundant snowfall affected, according to the Chronicle of forest operations, but there were still Christmas trees to buy.

done in the following years a further improvement of economic conditions and the new shops at the Steinweg now has the most varied goods offered.

Christmas was usually celebrated with the whole family, but in 1914, it was only then once over .. with the family idyll, the First World War began and many fathers were recovered.
The soldiers of the new turn of military barracks came to the Western Front. By the end of the year reached 350 then came back wounded.
In the following years were conscripted thousands Mühlhäuser and hundreds wounded were then placed in the various auxiliary military hospitals of the city, where they received for Christmas from home small gifts Women's Federation.

on the front lines in the East and West was indeed Christmas "celebrated", but "peace on earth .." looked somewhat another way ..
Even in the First World War there have been post-box packages, but many families had little that they could send to the front. was

the popular gingerbread man Christmas then it will soon no longer and in the last years of the war had many mothers with their children starve.
the Christmas cake could not afford hardly anyone had yet been the bread and potatoes are stretched.
All food was rationed and were also potatoes and turnips only on allotment.
came in last year's war in Mühlhausen demonstrations, in which the women demanded more bread for their starving children. With

the war were not yet solved the problems of course. For Christmas, the gas company ceased production by year end. The returning veterans were used in part for relief work.

The twenties were again marked by ups and downs.

inflation and recession could impoverish many families.
Many businesses went bankrupt, so that many war veterans had no more work.
But the Christmas season was celebrated even in the poorest families.
Well .. that Black Peter was probably only get the addresses of the wealthy families .., but a small Christmas tree stood still in each house.

The offer had improved gradually, but often, the children could only look at the new toy in the window and the name was not always fulfilled.
But it could finally be celebrated with the Famlie.

The thirties brought to a large extent the end of unemployment .., .. but at what price

were created for us in new barracks and arms factories and the new "national community" now there was the Nazi ideology .. While it was
Christmas even Karl May books for the boys and "Ranger Puck" for the girls, but also books like ".. .. for a light and flag" or "people without space" it was soon.

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Just as in these pictures, we went soon not in all families.

From the age of ten boys and girls wore the uniforms of the young people and the young girl aged 14 years, the federal government and the Hitler Youth and BDM-uniform.

".. High night, the bright stars ..." was now sung, and recalled the solstice fire of the Germans ..
Then came the Reich Labor Service (RAD) and the Armed Forces and who was very active, had the uniform of the SA and NSDAP.

were from 1939, then again, many mothers with their children alone.

During World War II, the fathers and sons marched through half of Europe.
From France came the post box at Christmas packages often with French specialties.

in 1941 but then warm socks and gloves for the soldiers in the Russian winter knitted and sent to the front.

The film "Request Concert" with Karl Raddatz and Ilse Werner was just like "Stukas" to the Nazi propaganda films were shown at Christmas time.

again "allowed" to the soldiers "Christmas war" far "celebration" of the home and the families.

Here are the soldiers of the Infanterieregimantes 86, which was stationed in the General Fuchs barracks and then as the 65th from the Görmarkaserne in Poland, France, was used in the Balkans and the Soviet Union and North Africa.

Many soldiers did not survive to the end Kries.

The bells of the radio transmitted "Christmas war" for the encirclement of Stalingrad 6.Armee trapped soldiers, were the death knell for many.

1945 .. the war ended, but misery and destruction and millions of deaths,

brought only a few, the real joy of Christmas.

Many had to flee from their homes, had no home and fought to survive.

And yet this time Christmas had special meaning ...

"peace on earth and goodwill toward men ...", was all a message that went on.

But the new peace was again disturbed. Mulhouse was from 1.7.45 to the Soviet Occupation Zone and the East and West became more and more distant from each other

In the GDR, then, socialism .. built as planned, but Christmas was celebrated still .., when were always empty and the churches over the years ..
.. Well, the Christmas trees were not always grade A ... and oranges, there were - if at all - just four weeks before Christmas ..

.. and raisins, etc. had on the Christmas cake to send the West relationship ..

.. but otherwise there was - almost - everything .. when it is time worried ..

In the fifties and sixties, then the first Christmas photos of family, Siegmar, Michael, Manuel, Andrew and Susan ...

First there was home-made tractor and trailer and a farm with a windmill ..

Then sometimes even a tractor with a homemade crane ..

.. and then .. a PIKO railway system, went on the three trains independently.

.. and of course, sweets, gingerbread, etc., etc. ...

.. Andreas always knew where it was to get what ..

The Arches was then a rarity, the in the Christmas package for relatives in the West went. In return, there was the popular "West Package" with .. we still rareren Articles

But if there was something wrong in the package then, grabbed the package hard to control and confiscated goods are either not allowed or even the whole package.

addition to the various model railways in recent years at the end was still a mini-Christmas-plant (60 x 60 cm) with the N-gauge by pico on the two trains automatically in the exchange went ..

After the turn then everything was more colorful ..