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On Christmas Eve 1914, in the dank, muddy trenches on the Western Front of the first world war, a remarkable thing happened. It came to be called the Christmas Truce. And it remains one of...
O n a crisp, clear morning 100 years ago, thousands of British, Belgian and French soldiers put down their rifles, stepped out of their trenches and spent Christmas mingling with their German...
December 24, 1914 - December 25, 1914. Participants: Germany. United Kingdom. Context: World War I. Key People: Benedict XV. Christmas Truce, (December 24–25, 1914), unofficial and impromptu cease-fire that occurred along the Western Front during World War I.
Late on Christmas Eve 1914, men of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) heard German troops in the trenches opposite them singing carols and patriotic songs and saw lanterns and small fir trees along their trenches.
The Christmas truce (German: Weihnachtsfrieden; French: Trêve de Noël; Dutch: Kerstbestand) was a series of widespread unofficial ceasefires along the Western Front of the First World War around Christmas 1914. The truce occurred five months after hostilities had begun.
A German trench in December 1914. Workmanship was far less sophisticated than it became later in the war, and the muddy conditions were terrible. Several factors combined to produce the...
The spontaneous truces that arose along the western front, especially those between British and German forces, are among the most famous events of December 1914. On Christmas Eve, German...