"Christmas 1914: The day even WWI showed humanity " Topic
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| Tango01 | 25 Dec 2014 10:58 p.m. PST |
"With British and German forces separated only by a no-man's land littered with fallen comrades, sounds of a German Christmas carol suddenly drifted across the frigid air: "Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht" ("Silent Night, Holy Night"). Then, during that first Christmas Day in World War I, something magical happened. Soldiers who had been killing each other by the tens of thousands for months climbed out of their soggy, muddy trenches to seek a shred of humanity amid the horrors of war…"
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| Abwehrschlacht | 26 Dec 2014 3:32 a.m. PST |
'Truce in the trenches was real, but football tales are a shot in the dark
British and German soldiers did briefly stop killing, but there is little evidence to support story of a kickabout in no-man's land'
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| frostydog | 26 Dec 2014 2:56 p.m. PST |
And sadly it was very localized if you were opposite a Prussian regt chances are there was no truce. |
| Abwehrschlacht | 27 Dec 2014 3:54 a.m. PST |
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gets started with WWI British in 15mm.
