Figure 1.-- Like many proper middle-class boys wore sailor suits. We see Heinrich at the age of 12 wearing his short pants sailor suit and student peaked cap. He wears tan knee socks. We know that he also wore tan long stockings at the same period during the cooler months but there are no photographs to illustrate the long stockings.

Heinrich was born in Cologne and deeply attached to the region, having been brought up in a liberal Catholic family. We do not know a lot about his childhood, but he seems to have grown up in a loving middle-class family. Give his father was a sculptor, the family must have had an artstic bent--presumably playing a role in Heinrich interest in writing. we see Heinrich at the age of 9 in a Cologne park (1926). He is wearing a button-on knee pants suit with large white buttons. The suit seems to be made out of velvet. Note the white open collar, the ankle striped socks, and the strap shoes. And like many proper middle-class boys wore sailor suits. We see Heinrich at the age of 12 wearing his short pants sailor suit and student peaked cap (figure 1). He wears tan knee socks. We know that he also wore tan long stockings at the same period during the cooler months but there are no photographs to illustrate the long stockings.

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