CHRISTMAS GIFTS
PROBLEM IN GERMANY
DELICATE QUESTIONS
(Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Received Dec. 24, 3 p.m.) BERLIN, Dec. 23.
The problem of Christmas gilts in Nazi Germany is even more delicate than elsewhere.
The giver of an apparently harmless present may find himself branded a Marxist or reactionary by the recipient For instance, the works of Karl May, Germany's Fenimore Cooper, who died in 1912, which have long been popular children’s gifts, are now regarded as politically undesirable. His stories of adventures among Red Indians are alleged to show him to be a Marxist, pacifist, ami upholder uf racial intermarriage. Barents of youthful admirers of Herr Hitler, .therefore, prefer to be on the sale side and present their olf-spring wijth copies of “My Struggle.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18588, 24 December 1934, Page 13
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125CHRISTMAS GIFTS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18588, 24 December 1934, Page 13
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