A christmas ceasefire (WWI account)

[SPKmes]

Just thought I would share this... it is in the national paper this morning (being Christmas morning here)
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11378857

[Ack-Ack]

Some historians are claiming it really didn't happen like it's been described. 

[SPKmes]

You are probably right ackack.... I did think about refraining from posting as I don't have much faith in journalism these days...but it is a feel good story as it stands in that article...

[Golfer]

Some historians are claiming it really didn't happen like it's been described. 

Enough from both sides wrote about it that *something* along those lines happened across numerous sectors of the Western front that Christmas. Not necessarily soccer games but the soldiers most certainly had cause to have had enough of that war which had only just begun. In some areas the cease fire persisted for days.

[Bodhi]

Some historians are claiming it really didn't happen like it's been described. 

The number of historians that are incorrect with regards to actual events is actually quite high.  Add to that the more time that goes on between the events and the actual historian talking and it seems to get more into opinion.

[Hap]

Just thought I would share this... it is in the national paper this morning (being Christmas morning here)
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11378857

Great story; thanks for sharing.

Merry Christmas to all.

[guncrasher]

I remember reading about this back in the 70s reader's digest,  I believe.


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[mbailey]

Podcast Voices of the First WW, has actual WW1 vets discussing this and it appears it did happen(maybe not word for word, but there was an informal Christmas truce with soldiers of both sides getting out of the trenches and exchanging items.