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Is it true that on Christmas in ww1 and or ww2 that both sides in the trenches exchanged gifts and celebrated together?

Asked by RedDeerGuy1 (24484

) October 13th, 2019
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WW I
“Christmas Truce” of 1914
A little over romanticized
It didn’t get better after that

josie (30934

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I heard that they held a cease-fire to play a soccer match.
Germans V Brits.

rebbel (35550

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The soccer match truce was a spontaneous truce between British and German forces, and was not condoned by the officers of either side.

The 1914 ceasefire was partly because the British heard the Germans singing “Silent Nacht” and joined in. And then at dawn some soldiers up and down the trenches raised white flags to greet the enemy.

There were no such exchanges later in the war and nothing close in WWII?

zenvelo (39430

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The football match that broke out in WWI was portrayed in the video for Paul McCartney’s Pipes of Peace single.
Shame that war, death & violence got in the way.

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