Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Christmas Truce?
The idea of 2 opposing enemies getting together to have a cease fire on Christmas and to adventure across the no man's land to exchange gifts and greetings is something that seems to only be in books and movies. But during WWI on the western front, German and French-British soldiers had a truce for Christmas. This really shows how these soldiers were fighting more for their countries cause instead of their own. These soldiers had more in common with each other then they did with most people from their own country. I even heard that German officials invited British officials to a holiday feast in a barn miles behind German lines. How could this happen today? Would it ever happen in modern times? I really dont think it could but who knows?
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Those are ssome very interesting questions that you propose. The Christmas truce refers to multiple instances of successions of hostilities that occurred on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day between German and British or French troops in World War I, particularly that between British and German troops stationed along the Western Front during Christmas 1914. What many people dont know about is that not only did the Germans and French/British have a truce on Christmas Day, but on the Eastern front as well containing Russia.
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