The Christmas Truce

9:00 AM · December 25, 2024

Excerpt Natalie F Danielsohen x.com

110 years ago today was the Christmas Truce. It occurred primarily between the British and German soldiers along the Western Front during World War I. It is an event the official histories of the “Great War” leave out, and the Orwellian historians hide from the public. pic.twitter.com/fJbCAuTjGY
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Beege Welborn Dec 25, 2024 9:00 AM ET

The Christmas Truce of 1914 has photographs of some of the real get-togethers.

The Christmas Truce has become one of the most famous and mythologised events of the First World War. But what was the real story behind the truce? Why did it happen and did British and German soldiers really play football in no-man's land?
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. Messages began to be shouted between the trenches.
The following day, British and German soldiers met in no man's land and exchanged gifts, took photographs and some played impromptu games of football. They also buried casualties and repaired trenches and dugouts. After Boxing Day, meetings in no man's land dwindled out.
The truce was not observed everywhere along the Western Front. Elsewhere the fighting continued and casualties did occur on Christmas Day. Some officers were unhappy at the truce and worried that it would undermine fighting spirit.