GERMAN CHRISTMAS CARDS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 November 1939, Page 6

GERMAN CHRISTMAS CARDS

DUMPED INTO ENGLAND ON EVE OF WAR. Many English soldiers at the Front will receive from home this Christmas, greeting cards that were made in Germany. More than three million of them—none marked “Made in Germany” are now- being sold in England. Beautifully printed, with perfect English Christmas scenes and little snatches of verse, the cards, indistinguishable from home manufactured ones, have been distributed to firms all over the country. Mr Karl Giesen, of Holborn, London, a publisher, who has distributed millions of the cards, said recently:— “They were brought before the war started and there is no reason why anybody should bother where they were made. They are not marked “Made in Germany,” so they will not hurt anybody’s feelings. Even if the customer asked where the cards were made, it is doubtful, if the shop assistant would know.” Mi’ Giesen was a German, is now a naturalised British subject, with a son in the British fighting forces. Another Christmas card official said: “There must be more than 3,000.000 German cards in this country. “The last ship-load was not able to be fully unloaded and had to make a quick getaway. Evidently they had been warned to return to Germany immediately.”