Individual Swiss School: Glattfelden Secondary School

Figure 1.-- This is the Glattfelden Secondary School in Glattfelden, Switzerland, a village in the Zurich canton. The photo was taken November 19, 1942, in the middle of World War II. There are two teachers, Herr Jean Thalmann (in the bow tie) and Herr Leuthold (in the four-in-hand tie). The class seems to be of mixed ages, which may account for the fact that two teachers appear in the same photo. Some of the children are at least 12 and maybe even 13, while others look younger, perhaps 11. The students were not photographed with their school in the background, but instead an interesting view of the village.

This is the Glattfelden Secondary School in Glattfelden, Switzerland, a village in the Zurich canton. A view of the village provides the back drop for portrait. The photo was taken on November 19, 1942, in the middle of World War II. It is amazing to think that while this photograph was taken in a quiet Swiss village, that their future was being decided on battelfields along the Volga and in North Africa. There are two teachers, Herr Jean Thalmann (in the bow tie) and Herr Leuthold (in the four-in-hand tie). The class seems to be of mixed ages, which may account for the fact that two teachers appear in the same photo. Some of the children are at least 12 and maybe even 13 years old, while others look younger, perhaps 11 years. Two girls in the second row look as though they could be as young as 10 years olds. Most of the boys wear long stockings with short trousers, but at least two of the boys wear knee socks. One boy (front row) seems to have on baggy knickers or plus fours. Many of the girls wear pinafores, but not all of them. We see a few suit jackets among the boys, but most of them wear sweaters with shirts underneath. Some of the boys wear boots (like the boy with bare knees sitting at the extreme right), while others wear low cut dress leather shoes (like the two boys with long stockings sitting or kneeling at the extreme left in front). Most of the children, both boys and girls, seem to wear brown long stockings rather than black or tan. Notice the zipper sweaters that open to half way down the chest. The boy kneeling on one knee at the left illustrates how long stockings had to be to cover the leg when the style was for rather brief short trousers. Notice that the shorts no longer seem to have the ornamental buttons that were common in the 1920s and 1930s.

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