Apples and bread in a Fröbel kindergarten, 1937
Small children lay the table on a terrace under a striped awning, unwrap their sandwiches and watch a young teacher cut up apples.
On a walled terrace under a striped awning, children in pinafores sit at low tables with plates and napkins; a fair girl hands round the plates, a small girl with a hair clip takes a wrapped sandwich from her leather bag, and a young woman with a bobbed haircut and a wristwatch peels and cuts an apple while a boy and a girl lean in close to watch. Then the whole group eats bread and apples in the shade of the brick wall.
The kindergarten was a German invention: Friedrich Fröbel opened the first in 1840 and gave it the name. By 1937 the regime's welfare organisation, the NSV, was taking over kindergartens run by churches and associations, and the teachers were expected to raise children for the national community.
