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<p>[QUOTE="Fid, post: 4409896, member: 7724"]problem a.o. is that he was obviously following the orders of Paris that forbade the use of the German language after 1945, especially in Alsace-Lorraine and by civil servants; and even schoolchildren were mistreated by "real" French (français de l'intérieur) teachers when they spoke dialect during recess. so it's questionable if he ever spoke Alsatian or German himself.</p><p>these collector boxes - or Sammelkästen - were well known during the Historismus era or in England the Victorian era.</p><p>then there's the second problem - the German occupation. these boxes were easily sent home to one's children because the inside descriptions were certainly in German.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Fid, post: 4409896, member: 7724"]problem a.o. is that he was obviously following the orders of Paris that forbade the use of the German language after 1945, especially in Alsace-Lorraine and by civil servants; and even schoolchildren were mistreated by "real" French (français de l'intérieur) teachers when they spoke dialect during recess. so it's questionable if he ever spoke Alsatian or German himself. these collector boxes - or Sammelkästen - were well known during the Historismus era or in England the Victorian era. then there's the second problem - the German occupation. these boxes were easily sent home to one's children because the inside descriptions were certainly in German.[/QUOTE]
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