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Apenrade was a good sized town located along a river. There is a church spire rising picturesquely over the village. It would have been a Protestant village. One interesting observation in the village scenes is that there are virtually no cars. This is probably a good representation of small towns located throughout Denmark and Germany. Germany at the time was one of the most industrialized countries in Europe, but large areas of the country were still rural and automobile productuion was relatively small compared to the United States. This was to have a huge impact on World War II. While Germany was to launch World War II spearheaded by its Panzer force, in fact large sections of the Wehrmacht was not mechanized. Scenes of Germany like this show how rural much of Germany was in the 1930s.
The hand-writing on the dedication page is kind of vague and not easy to read. What puzzles us is the village name
Apenrade is a small town in Denmark close to the German border.
It used to be German until 1919 and there still is a German-speaking minority. The official Danish name is Abenra. What confuses us a bit is that Inge wears a Hitler Youth uniform.
A German reader tells us, "Apenrade is a town just to the north of the Danish/German border in Schleswig-Holstein, see the Wikipedia listing.
Apenrade in 1934 was and is still Danish. There is, however, a large German population in this town and area. Probably, Inge's family was German (or the young family with the girl lived in Germany, the grandmother and the aunt living in Danish Apenrade speaking Danish and German). The Christian names give no indication as the names were and are popular both in Danemark and Germany at this time.
Note the windows in the town street photograph. The windows go out to the street. This is typical for the very north of Germany, Danemark and The Netherlands. In southern Germany, Switzerland and Austria the windows open into the room (with some problems in case of a strong rain!).
While Apenrade waa a Danish town in the 1930s, it had a German World War I war memorial. This of course was because Apenrade was during the War
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