Germans Hanging Out

 

There's a stamp on the back, mostly faded, but I can make out Eichwalde which is a suburb of Berlin in the Brandenburg area.  There's also a date, "3-21/71."  At least I assume it's a date and the man's haircut looks like it's from the right period.  They must have lived near the wall.  Of course, I guess everyone in the Berlin area lived near the wall.  

Germans Enjoying Themselves

My mother was an English war bride who hated Germans.  I was going to write some of the things she used to say about Germany and Germans, but then I got to thinking, that was along time ago, and as there are fewer and fewer living World War 2 vets, there are also fewer and fewer living Nazis in the world.  I think I'm going to spend my time worrying about the alt-right in the United States instead.

Anyway, this one's a real photo postcard from, I assume, West Berlin.  There's a printer's credit on the back, "Foto-Dienst LEPPIN-Berlin 1 Berlin 30, Moizstr. 68, Ruf 246192."  Also, written on the back, "Bune."  I'm guessing that's a name.

The Gothic Horror Hair Bow

I don't know about anyone else, but I associate that hair bow with twelve year old girls, not adult women.  That alone makes this image kind of odd, throw in the leafless trees and shadows, and it all seems rather creepy.  I don't know why, but it reminds me of Nosferatu.  The silent version directed by F.W. Murnau, not the surprisingly good Werner Herzog remake.

Stamped on the back, "H. POGADE, NEUKOLLN 50"  Neukollon, with two dots above the "O" is a neighborhood in Berlin.  It took a bit of web surfing, but I was able to find a reference to a Pogade Camera Store, in Berlin,  that dates back to, at least, the mid thirties.  There's a watermark on the back, "Agfa Lupex" that wasn't used before the mid forties, so 50 might be a year.