Figure 1.-- This Christmas snapshot was taken in Hettensen, Germany during 1958. Notice the small Christmas tree. Christmas in Russia had been converted into a kind of secular New Years celebration. We are not sure just what kind of effort was made in Germany to change German Christmas traditions. The 7-year-old boy in the center is Gero Storre, who later became a photographer. He is sitting with his parents Karl and Gertrude Storre.

This Christmas snapshot was taken in Hettensen, Germany during 1958. Notice the small Christmas tree. Christmas in the Soviet Union had been converted into a kind of secular New Years celebration. We are not sure just what kind of effort was made in Germany to change German Christmas traditions. Supressing Chrisdtmas was much more difficult in Germany, bith because it is the single most important German holiday and because East Germans were constantly iunundated by West German radio and television. The 7-year-old boy in the center is Gero Storre. He is sitting with his parents Karl and Gertrude Storre. Hettensen is a town in lower Saxony which at the time was part of the DDR (East Germany). Gero wears a dark jacket over a sweater with zip-up opening in front. These zip sweaters were popular in both East and West Germany in the 1950s. He also wears short trousers and long tan cotton stockings with a Strapsleibchen. You can see the supporter clasps on his upper leg. At this time, long stockings were rapidly disappearing in West Germany where tights had appeared. Long stockings continued to be worn in East Germany into the 1960s. Gero went on to become a photographer as an adult. We know nothing about his photography at this time.

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