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We have acquired several portraits of 1930s weddings. Boys would ear tyheir best outfirs for weddings abd this often were sailor suits. We see a 1930 wedding with a flower girl and two boys wearing fancy sailor outfits and natty caps. The boy seem to be flower attendants rather than ring boys. The NAZIs seized power (1933). They dominated Germany in the 1930s and began to target traditional religion. We are not sure just how this affected German weddings. The NAZIs were hostile to Christianity, but did not move openly against the country's Christian churches. The Hitler Youth program was structured to compete with church services and activities. The NAZIs were very interested in increasing the birth rate in Germany. And in the conservative German society that the NAZIs inherites this required promoting marrige and the family. We are not yet sure, however, how wedding ceremonies were affected, if at all. We also see a German 1932 wedding. It looks rather like a modest income, working-class family family. Notice the boys here are not wearing sailor suits. We suspect that it represents a good idea of how many Germans married in the 1930s. We see a more elaborate wedding of a naval officer, probably in the mid-1930s. The boy, however, does not seem especially dressed up. We note a SS wedding about 1935.
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