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Children appear from time to time in the film and are meticulously costumed
according to the styles of the period with great historical accuracy. The
emphasis is on regional and rural dress, but a range of social types and
classes is treated. One of the most revealing sections of the film from the
point of view of children's clothing shows life in Schabbach during 1943
during the height of World War II. Many of Schabbach's young men have gone
off to defend Germany, but Maria remains at home with her youngest boy Hermann
who is shown at the age of about 6 years. Already he does chores for his mother
such as taking care of the chickens. One sequence shows him wearing
Lederhosen with long tan stockings and hightop shoes. He is only vaguely
aware of his older brothers' experience in the military. Near the end of the
war, one of the Simon boys who flies a plane in the German army, flies over
the village in winter to drop some flowers upon the town as his contribution
to a family celebration. We see the children gathering up the dropped flowers
in one episode. One of the older boys picking up the scattered blossoms is
shown wearing Lederhosen shorts with long brown stockings. A third episode
deals with the return to his home town of Paul Simon after the war. Paul, one
of the Simon sons who has made his fortune in America and returns to Schabbach
with a fancy car and chaufeur, is greeted with some surprise by the
townsfolk. The third shot shows a local teenager running to see the
stranger's new car. He wears a white cardigan sweater that buttons down the
front, short pants, and long brown stockings.
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