Figure 1.-- We have no information on this school except that the class portrait was taken in 1955. The children do not wear very trendy clothes. We would guess this maeans that their school was located in a small town. Presumably the building in the background is their school. It doesn't look like a school, but the building seems o have a Bavarian look. The children look about 11-12 years old. I'm not sure just what kind of school this would have been. Click on the image to see the rest of the class.

We do not have much information on this school. We do have some photographs from the 940s and 50s. We do not know the name of the school. We do know it was a Catholic school. We are not sure what kind of school it was. We note children from beginning children to about 12-13 years. There may have been older children, but we do not see them in availavke photographs. We think the school may have been in Bavaria.

First Communion (1941)

Here we see a First Communion event at a Catholic school during World War II. We think the school is in Bavaria. The boys are rather simply dressed, white shirts and dark short pants. The girls wear white dresses, but not the fancy junior bridal dressess that girls often wear for First Communion. Perhaps the War meant that First Communion outfits were more basic than usual. The War in 1941, however, had not yet begun to impinge significantly on the home front. Only after the disaster before Moscow at the end of the year (December 1941) did German begin to experience military reverses requiring mosre sacrifices by German civilians. This is ome of several photographs available fron this school. While we do not know the name of the school, as the building is in the background, it may be possible to identify it. Also note the school crest which is being used in the ceremony.

Class Portrait (1945)

Class Portrait (1955)

The class portrait here was taken in 1955 (figure 1). The children do not wear very trendy clothes. We would guess this maeans that their school was located in a small town. Presumably the building in the background is their school. It doesn't look like a school, but the building seems o have a Bavarian look. The children look about 11-12 years old. I'm not sure just what kind of school this would have been. Note that the boys no longer wear suit jackets that were still common before World War II. The boys wear sweaters with short pants, knickers, and long pants. Only one boy eaes knickers, the others boys wear either short or long pants. Several of the boys wear long stockings. Here I am not sure about the coloes. The girls wear dresses, most of them with pinafores.

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