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During Christmas 1914, German and British soldiers made a truce to exchange gifts and food on the Western Front.

During Christmas 1914, German and British soldiers made a truce to exchange gifts and food on the Western Front. They even played a football match between the trenches. Christmas 1914 was the first Christmas of World War One. The British had been told that that the Germans fighting against them were blood lusting psychopaths. Propaganda like this widened the trench, as it were, between those fighting against each other in trenches. As a result, any sort of friendship or peace didn’t seem like an option.  But when Christmas came, things...

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Published By: OMGFacts - Saturday, 28 July, 2012