Christmas Day Truce

On christmas day 2019 the next epic war movie titled 1917 is scheduled for release.

Christmas day truce. Those who lived through the first world war experienced christmas in a variety of ways. The christmas truce was a series of individual and unofficial truces that took place on the western front during the first winter of the war. Christmas truce december 24 25 1914 impromptu cease fire that occurred along the western front during world war i. This iconic moment of history tells the tale of soldiers on opposite sides coming together in a moment of peace during christmas day 1914.

Contrary to popular belief first hand sources reported that the christmas truce was not a large scale event. Peace at the war front on christmas day during world war i. The christmas truce also allowed both sides to finally bury their dead comrades whose bodies had lain for weeks on no man s land the ground between opposing trenches. A christmas truce memorial was unveiled in frelinghien france on 11 november 2008.

At the spot where their regimental ancestors came out from their trenches to play football on christmas day 1914 men from the 1st battalion the royal welch fusiliers played a football match with the german. After months of fighting each other soldiers began to exchange greetings and songs between their trenches in the days leading up to christmas eve. Because most of the fighting on the front lines had already stopped due to the christmas truce of 1914. The pause in fighting was not universally observed nor had it been sanctioned by commanders on either side but along some two thirds of the anglo german front the guns fell silent.

Christmas is for sharing. The phenomenon took. After the start of the truce on christmas eve in 1914 about 100 000 soldiers from both german and english armies have started celebrating christmas together.