As most countries, Germany also has a Thanksgiving. The Harvest Thanksgiving Festival, so called Erntedankfest, is an early October, German Christian festival. The festival has a significant religious component to it, but also, like its North American counterpart, includes large harvest dinners (consisting mostly of autumn crops). However, it is not a national holiday and therefore people don't celebrate it as in the past.
The Bavarian beer festival Oktoberfest generally takes place within the vicinity of Erntedankfest. It became a large event with visitors from all over the world.
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