I heard the original director wasn’t going to be nearly as pro American in the telling of the story. That would have been awful.
The craziest story i heard was of Germans and Americans playing soccer during a one day WWI truce.
Then went back to fighting the next day.
That WWI truce was Brits and Germans. When that Christmas truce happened we weren’t in the war yet. But fortunately the Generals were able to get the fighting to start again/
Germans and Brits. Happened in late 1914 during an impromptu enlisted men’s Christmas Day cease fire. The commands on both sides were appalled and it was never allowed to happen again. Very sad. Most if not all the men who participated were probably dead and moldering by the end of that brutal and pointless war.
It was the Brits and Germans. A British company made a commercial about that. SAINSBURY CHRISTMAS AD
The soccer games occurred during the “Christmas Truce” of 1914. Hundreds of British and German troops fraternized in no-man’s land as the guns fell silent during the holiday.
They shared food, sang carols, and of course, played soccer.
The generals (on both sides) made sure there was no repeat of the holiday truce during the rest of the war.
Another strange tale from the annals of World War I are the allied attacks on the morning of November 11, 1918. Commanders knew the armistice would go into effect at 11 am, so they launched final pushes to gain more territory and give the Allies a more advantageous negotiating position. By some accounts, 3,000 men died needlessly on that final morning of the war.