Figure 1.--Here we see a presumsably family group in 1931. All but the younges child wears strap shoes. They were the srtandard shoe type for giels, but many boys also wore them. |
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Up until the start of World War II we see quite a number of German boys wearing single-strap or "Mary Jane" style strap shoes. They appear to be a popular style for children. We see both both boys and irls wearing them. They were more popular with girls, but we see msny boys wearing them as well. We see boys wearing both dress shoes and casual shoes in the single strap shoe. We saw these casual stap shoes in the 1920s and the 30s as well, but with slightly younger boys. They were never the predominant shoe worn by German boys, but the photographic record duggests that they were widely worn. By the 1930s we see a variety of other sandal styles and this continuued after the War. We notice the Krupp children in the 1920s wearing strap shoes. http://histclo.com/Bio/k/krupp/bk-gustav.html
A 1931 portrai of the Krupp family shows Eckbert Krup in a little boys outfit with a large collar, short pamts, white socks, and strap shoes. [William Manchester, The Arms of Krupp (Little Brown: Boston, 1968), opposite page 468.]
The 1977 documentary, "Hitler, The Whole Story," shown in 1990 on [the Discovery Channel?] has scenes of a Nazi camp like the US CCC camps of the Depression years. Everyone is wearing army style uniforms of a shirt with knee length shorts. One boy in the background of a scene some way into the film is wearing one strap shoes.
The American Look Magazine (May 24, 1938, p. 14) shows a similar situation. The
picture shows three lines of boys dressed in dark (brown?) uniforms of long pants and long-sleeved shirts. The two boys in the front of the leftmost line are wearing black one-strap shoes. The text accompanying the picture says, "Semi-military labor camps [are] compulsory for all boys of 18. There they work 6 months without pay on military highways, swamp clearance and the like. Above are law students in a labor camp."
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