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Remember holidays too. In addition to Christmas, New Year's, Twelfth Night, Ascension, Pentecost, Easter, May Day and All Saints' Day, predominantly Catholic Bavaria, for example, celebrates Maria Himmelfahrt (Assumption), Fronleichnam (Corpus Christi) and, in a bow to ecumenism, the Protestants' Buss-und Bettag (Day of Prayer and Repentance). All this and June 17 (German Unity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Germany: Shopping Hell | 7/9/1990 | See Source »

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