Episode 291 - The Christmas Truce

Once upon a time enemies put aside their differences to collectively ignore their officers orders.

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Sources:

https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/the-real-story-of-the-christmas-truce

https://www.history.com/news/christmas-truce-1914-world-war-i-soldier-accounts

https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/voices-of-the-first-world-war-the-christmas-truce

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-story-of-the-wwi-christmas-truce-11972213/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25206-2004Dec24.html

Max Hastings. Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes To War