German Vintage Christmas Greeting Card – Santa with Decorated Tree

This Father Christmas, dressed head-to-toe in an aggressively blue ensemble — coat, hat, and all — has his back to us as he peers through a window at a little girl in a red dress admiring a candle-lit Christmas tree, which raises some questions about whose holiday this actually is. The sack slung over his shoulder contains what appear to be fruits and a toy house, because nothing says 'I've been watching you' like showing up with produce. The 'Fröhliche Weihnachten' greeting floats cheerfully above the scene, gamely trying to distract from the fact that this is essentially a card celebrating a large robed man conducting surveillance on a child through glass.