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This Agfa snapshot shows an unidentified German family in 1960. Ir shows mom and dad and their five children. They look to be about 6-16 years old. We are not sure about the circumstces of th photograoh. We might have guessed they were about to go on a vacation trip. You can see their car behind them. We are not sure what kind it was. Dad wears a suit without a tie. The children are dressed casually. This may not look like anything sepcial, but it is really quite spectacular. German before World War II was a country where few people except for the well-to-do had cars. Ad during the War, German cities were leveled and the country largely de-industrialized. Yet here only 15 years later, average Germans were better off than ever before as a result of the German Economic Miracle. The girl wears a dress. The boys all wear collared shirts, ticked into their pants. The younger boy wears Lederhosen and knee socks. The other boys wear casual short pants. We do not see any belts. The boy in back also is wearing shorts, but we can't tell what kind.
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