Originally posted by All Creatures Great And Small

This is fun to hear about Christmas in other countries - in the US, most people put their trees up WAY before Xmas, sometimes as early as the end of November. By the time Christmas comes, a real tree is looking mighty limp and you're ready to chuck it out on the 26th!
in Germany you put it up the 24th of December and you keep it until January 6th (or even longer).
Most people have the Nativity scene there too and you add the camels and the Holy Kings the 6th of January. From the beginning of December you have a wreath with 4 candles, for each week until Christmas.