Figure 1.--Here we see a German boy who seems to have done rather well for Easter. Note the large eggs and toy bunny. There also seems to be a toy or live duckling.

We notice children with very large eggs. I assume that they were chocolate eggs. We also notice chocolate Easter bunnies. The item here seem to be the standard items. There were, however, quite a range of Easter candy with attractive wraping. We notice another photograph showing a wide range of delectables made for Easter. I'm not sure if the children color eggs like American children. We do not see colored eggs in the photographs we have collected. A German reader writes, "Children usually do not paint the eggs (at least in former times). How could they believe that the eggs are from the rabbits if they have seen them before?" Good point, but children are not always the most logical little souls and it is so much fun coloring the eggs. Most of whart we see in the German photographs are chocolate and other candy eggs. I think chocolate eggs are especially popular in Germany. We also need large egg-shaped containers, such as in the photograph here (figure 1). I'm not sure what was inside. A German reader writes, "Today we had traditional German egg hunt and my nieces enjoyed chocolate eggs and rabbits and little presents."

Created: 12:15 AM 4/24/2006
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