Another old custom is that of hiding coloured eggs, in which rite the ancients saw symbolically represented, life not yet awake and nature its most mysterious.
In various provinces, this year, artisans decorated eggs with ingenu-"us designs of flowers or the sun, which illustrates, "the force that unites members of the German *ommunity."
The recent historic events im Austria were not forgotten in the midst of these fetes. Many of the coloured eggs bore inscriptions in the "arinthian dialect lauding the victory National Socialism.
In one Reich news organ, a Nazi taunting the beauty of these ed isages concludes, "Churches gav* aew names to Germanic rites. They us "modified their aspect super jolly, but could never suppress their inner meaning. That remains an essentially G This year. Easter fo a fete marking vital force found again by al Germans on this earth."- Havas.
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