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Paperback Christmas in Germany: A Cultural History Book

ISBN: 1469622130

ISBN13: 9781469622132

Christmas in Germany: A Cultural History

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For poets, priests, and politicians--and especially ordinary Germans--in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the image of the loving nuclear family gathered around the Christmas tree symbolized the unity of the nation at large. German Christmas was supposedly organic, a product of the winter solstice rituals of pagan "Teutonic" tribes, the celebration of the birth of Jesus, and the age-old customs that defined German character. Yet, as Joe Perry...

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