The incredible true story of when WWI stopped for enemy armies to celebrate Christmas together

Dec 25 2022 by Business Insider

 
An artist's impression from The Illustrated London News of 9 January 1915 of what the Christmas truce looked like. It is titled "British and German Soldiers Arm-in-Arm Exchanging Headgear: A Christmas Truce between Opposing Trenches"

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Hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians died in the first months of World War I, which changed the way war was waged. The war was supposed to be over by Christmas of 1914, but by December the war was stuck in the gruesome trench warfare...
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