We suspect that the popularity of berets may have varied regionally in Germany. We believe that they were most popular in the Rhineland, close to France. We have noted, however, snapshots of Germany boys wearing beret throughout the coutry. Here we see boys from Stuttgart wearing berets after World War II. Stutgart is in the middle of southern Grmany. Formal portraits are less common. The NAZIs when they seized Alsace-Loraine in World War II baned the beret as part of a campaign to wipe out French influence. This included banning the French language. Interestingly, the NAZIs did not ban the beret in the Reich proper, only in Alsace-Loraine. We do not yet, however, have any detailed regional information on the wearing of berets in Germany. Hopefully our German readers will provide us some insight. A HBC reader tell us as a boy in Stuttgart during the early 1940s that he also wore berets.
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