2nd December 2003, 4:43 PM
Christmas trees... not sure, but midwinter festivals is a very good guess. After all, it's early Germany... cold, dark, in December you don't have much sun... you don't know if the sun will return. So in the shortest days you have some kind of festival of light... to pray for the sun to return, I guess. Seems logical that the christmas tree, bedecked in candles, comes from that...