Christmas in Nazi Germany was a Christian reinvention of the Germanic god Odin. Accordingly, holiday posters were made to depict Odin as the "Christmas or Solstice man", riding a white charger, sporting a thick grey beard and wearing a slouch hat, carrying a sack full of gifts. Other changes were made to the manger, which was replaced by a Christmas garden containing wooden toy deer and rabbits; Mary and Jesus were also depicted as a blonde mother and child. The Christmas tree was also changed. The traditional names of the tree, "Christbaum" or "Weihnachtsbaum", was renamed in the press as fir tree, light tree
Samuel A. Tannenbaum work of Sir Edward Maunde Thompson and his collaborators. Tannenbaum also was deeply involved on the question of the forgeries of John Payne Collier. He believed the entire account book of the Office of the Master of the Revels was a Collier forgery—a view that has found no other defenders, though several other scholars, such as Charlotte Stopes, argued that the Revels accounts book was a partial forgery. He was also convinced that Simon Forman's "Book of Plays" was a Collier forgery, a position that only a minority of commentators support. Samuel A. Tannenbaum Samuel Aaron Tannenbaum (1874–1948) was a