Good Will Toward Men: The Great War's Christmas Truce
“An Historic Group: British and German Soldiers Photographed Together,” Daily Mirror (London, England), January 8, 1915. The fighting in Europe had been growing for almost five months when Pope Benedict tried to arrange a truce between nations in early December 1914 for Christmas. But his efforts failed when Russia declined the truce. The notorious trenches of World War I were filled with weary, cold soldiers. But along the British and German lines, a sudden rise of the Christmas Spirit among the soldiers created a phenomenon that wasn’t seen for the rest of the war—the soldiers deci...
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