Posted on 12/24/2023 7:35:05 PM PST by Tench_Coxe
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 the most storied and strangest moments of the Great War—or of any war in history.
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What happened next would, in the years to come, stun the world and make history. Enemy soldiers began to climb nervously out of their trenches, and to meet in the barbed-wire-filled “No Man’s Land” that separated the armies. Normally, the British and Germans communicated across No Man’s Land with streaking bullets, with only occasional gentlemanly allowances to collect the dead unmolested. But now, there were handshakes and words of kindness. The soldiers traded songs, tobacco and wine, joining in a spontaneous holiday party in the cold night.
Bairnsfather could not believe his eyes. “Here they were—the actual, practical soldiers of the German army. There was not an atom of hate on either side.”
And it wasn’t confined to that one battlefield. Starting on Christmas Eve, small pockets of French, German, Belgian and British troops held impromptu cease-fires across the Western Front, with reports of some on the Eastern Front as well. Some accounts suggest a few of these unofficial truces remained in effect for days.
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They should have all flipped their commamders off and went home, dashing the globalists first world war to kill off millions of european men.
If no one shows up for a globalist war, will the officers and political leaders fight instead? Hell no they won’t. They won’t willingly go imto the grinder.
WW I started in August 1914. The First Battle of the Marne took place 6–12 September, 1914. French and British troops forced a German retreat by exploiting a gap which appeared between the 1st and 2nd Armies, ending the German advance into France. The German Army then retreated north of the Aisne and dug in there, establishing the beginnings of a static western front that was to last for the next three years.
The Christmas Truce occurred just three months after the start of the trench warfare. The men were already so fed up with fighting, cold, miserable, wet, muddy and diseased conditions that they essentially told their officers “Forget it” and held the impromptu truce. Little did they know that the war would slog on another four years.
Is this One Step Beyond about the same thing?
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0507851/plotsummary/?ref_=tt_ov_pl
Celtic Thunder sings a song about it……. Beautiful video,
https://youtu.be/JG3l-OBdcPI?si=PP0v5bQzTUc3fbNB
For it’s time; a good series mostly.
One of the better episodes.
That is very good. Thank you for posting.
Sadly, even if there was no big war...we would be starting to fight in smaller groupings. Happens every day.
Within families, between families, between extended families, neighborhoods, sectors, cities, counties, states, nations.
...and the brave keep falling to honor the names, of the ones who have gone before...
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