How English and German soldiers bonded during WWI Christmas Day Truce by telling jokes about the

UK Daily Mail ^ | December 17, 2014 | Sam Webb

[dfwgator]

Lot nicer than Adolf, the true legacy of WWI!

Adolf and Lenin.

[dfwgator]

So the worst possible outcome is that perhaps England and Germany sit down and divy up the spoils between them. Beat the alternative.

[C19fan]

http://www.amazon.com/Pity-War-Explaining-World/dp/0465057128/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1418847364&sr=8-5&keywords=niall+ferguson

http://www.amazon.com/What-If-Foremost-Military-Historians/dp/0425176428/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1418847469&sr=8-6&keywords=alternative+history+what

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

Like I said. No Empire to speak of. Just a few sausage factories scattered here and there. Nothing that would justify building a huge navy to protect. Britain had a huge navy but a tiny army. The fleet was the cornerstone of Britain’s national security in both a physical and a psychological sense, and building up a baby to match ours was always going to set US on a collision course, and the Germans knew it, but pursued their plan anyway.

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from the FRchives and probably years past. Adding to the GGG catalog.

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