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DHP Ep. 89 Reissue: The Christmas Truce

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(This is a Christmas-season reissue of a vintage DHP episode made all the way back in 2015.)

In the cold, damp, muddy ditches of the Western Front in December, 1914, the rank-and-file of the Allied and German armies spontaneously set aside their hatreds to take a break from mass-murdering each other, much to the dismay of their so-called ‘leaders.’

Join CJ as he discusses:

  • The context of the Christmas Truce
  • How it happened
  • The aftermath, legacy, and lessons to be learned from it

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    • John McCutcheon’s “Christmas in the Trenches”
    • The King’s Singers perform “Stille Nacht”
    • A 1981 BBC Documentary about the Christmas Truce that features firsthand accounts from Great War veterans who were still alive at that time
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