Making the claim that ice cold water is good for their health, a group of about 30 naked Germans jumped together into a Berlin lake for their annual Christmas swim Sunday.
As reported by the Associated Press, the men where wearing nothing but red Santa Claus caps, and the naked men and women aged between 25 and 73 went cheerfully en masse into the Oranke Lake in northern Berlin, which had temperatures of 2 degrees Celsius (36 degrees Fahrenheit).
"It feels great even if it's not quite as cold this year as in the past," said Kathrin Hornack after her five-minute swim. Last year the lake was colder and in previous years it was sometimes filled with chunks of ice.
Some stayed in the water just a minute or so while others swam for 10 to... MORE
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