Figure 1.-- Here we see the Bermini boys at the home of their friend David Hanf. All the boys wear long stockings with short trousers. We are unsure about their thecstatus of the Hanf famiily. David is singled out for nasty treatment in the gymnasium. I think he may also have had some family connection to Judaism, but his family like tge Bertinis are not Jewish in the religious sense. We see David in one scene with his father and his visiting friends, the Bertini boys, who shows the boys some of his interesting possessions. And at one point, he shows them a bit of film (I think) with the Nazis painting stars of David with the word Jud in the center of the star. David's father is obviously anti-Nazi.

The costuming is excellent and historically precise. The three boys as children during the 1930s wear sweaters, short trousers, and long stockings (brown or gray) obviously supported by garters attached to Leibchen. At night they sleep in long white night shirts. At the gymnasium they wear the same shorts and long stockings but also the peaked caps of their school. At an earlier point, before they enter the higher-level school, they wear stocking caps during the cold weather. When they grow older, Cesar and Roman wear long trousers with suspenders while Ludwig, who is still an older teenager (about 17) wears short trousers with knee socks. After the two older boys graduate from shorts and long stockings to long trousers, they wear long underwear to keep their legs warm. There is an interesting scene in the gymnasium where the two older Bertini boys are singled out for humiliation because of their Jewish mother, and they make friends with another boy in their class, David Hanf (played by Ulrich Hub), who is also in a similar situation. David is shown wearing short trousers and tan long stockings.

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