TOPSHOT - The traditional 45 meter Dortmund Christmas tree, one of the world's largest, is illuminated at the Christmas market in Dortmund, western Germany, on November 28, 2024.

(Each city says it is the true home of the first Christmas tree.) In the 16th century, German Christians brought the trees inside their homes as a Christmas symbol of everlasting life. When news ...

He said: “There is lunch and tea, the children decorate part of the Christmas tree. “Presents are opened, a practice from Germany which never caught on nationally unlike decorating the tree ...

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An elephant grazes on a Christmas tree during the feeding of animals with unused Christmas trees at the Zoo, in Berlin, Germany, Jan 3, 2025. (Photo: AP/Ebrahim Noroozi) ...