And finally a fourth point: nobody wore a bathing cap at that time and swimming goggles were also extremely rare, e.g. I was the only one with swimming goggles in the school class in Illinois, in Wisconsin we were two. Likewise, no one wore flip-flops, we were always barefoot in the pool Hall , in both schools flip-flops or any kind of bathing shoes were even expressly forbidden, naked always meant barefoot there. And even if I went otherwise somewhere with the boys for swimming, so not naked but with swim briefs, I have never seen anyone other than barefoot. Again, there are often huge discrepancies in the fake pictures: you see whole swimming teams of guys naked, but everyone and even the girls around have flipflops on without exception….
In Germany in particular naked swimming for both sexes was allowed on beaches. It is said that in the former German Democratic Republic (Communist East Germany) nudity on beaches and in public parks was a form of freedom of expression in a society where freedom was generally suppressed. Germany has more nude swimming than any other country in the world. After 1968 the sexual revolution brought more open public nudity in the rest of Europe and the establishment of designated clothing option beaches along the Mediterranean and Baltic Seas .
