The military brass took care of this on subsequent Christmas’s to make sure it didn’t happen again. If I was a General in 1914, in quite sure I would have opposed my soldiers playing games and consorting with the enemy.
“If I was a General in 1914, in quite sure I would have opposed my soldiers playing games and consorting with the enemy.”
And if the soldiers on both sides continued the 1914 Christmas Truce beyond Christmas, the war would have ended early in 1915.
The way the war was going in the trenches, the few days of a truce probably didn’t make a huge difference - although probably on the men’s will to fight. (”Wait - those other guys aren’t monsters...”)
I’m sure glad that George Washington didn’t cross the Delaware just to share a pint with the Hessians though!
Hmm - maybe the Allies should have rolled barrels of beer over to the German trenches.