Fernando and Josefina were married on April 29 in Tlaxcala, in central Mexico. They chose that date because Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun celebrated their wedding on that day. She was wearing a white dress. He, an SS uniform. The local press documented the ceremony in detail. The wedding carriage, an old Volkswagen, was decorated with camouflage, a swastika on the hood and a black cross on the driver's door, the emblem of the Luftwaffe and from various German military vehicles during World War II. In the images, it can be seen that some guests wore Mexican boots . . .
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