Germany

=﻿The Christmas season begins on the first day of Advent and lasts until Epiphany on January 6th. =

In my family, gifts were exchanged on the first of Advent, each Sunday of Advent, many gifts on Christmas Eve, and one gift each day thereafter until the morning of January 6th, when the last gift was given.

The German Christmas season officially begins with the first Sunday of Advent. Among the Christmas treats are Stollen, Marzipan, and Lebkuchen.

Trees, called Tannenbaum, are decorated with real candles. As a child, it was my job to light the tree, keep an eye on the candles as they burned, and to extinguish the candles each night.

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