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 Greetings----
 
Martin Knepper wrote:
 
> You seem to have misinterpreted your mother's story, or she did when she was a child.
> 'Christmas trees' (german: Weihnachtsbaeume) was a popular term among germans in those
> years, being a descriptive term for illuminating bombs, let down on parachutes to
> enlight the darkened cities for the bombers to come. So in the end these xmas trees
> killed people too...
 
hmmm....that is quite possibly what happened !  Thank you for pointing this out to me---
 
 
 
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