The Pro-Christkind group will withhold its seal of approval from any shops displaying reindeer, sleighs or any of Father Christmas’s associates.
“Shopkeepers ask us what they should have instead of a Santa? We recommend they have angels or shepherds. We prefer shepherds to angels,” says Christoph Tschaikner, leader of the Pro-Christkind movement…
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“It’s not against Santa. He is good for the British and Americans but he is not good for us,” said Walter Kriwetz, organiser of the candle-lit procession in Austria’s second city.
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