World War 1 Christmas Truce in the Trenches WW1
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A Christmas Truce
The year is 1914 and World war 1 has been going on for 4 months,soldiers from Germany and Britain, living in mud filled trenches suffering from the cold weather,the chill of the icy rain pouring down on them, with the rain comes the constant shell bombardment from both sides,snipers picking off their targets death is everywhere hope is nowhere.
Suddenly around 10pm after the guns had fallen silent,singing could be heard from the German trenches,
Stille Nacht! Heil'ge Nacht!
Alles schläft; einsam wacht
Nur das traute hoch heilige Paar.
Holder Knab' im lockigen Haar,
Schlafe in himmlischer Ruh!.
Christmas eve and the German soldiers were singing Carols,and after a while the Brittish joined in singing in English, for the first time in four months there was hope in the air.
Day light came on Christmas morning, the soldiers from both trenches lay aside their arms got out of the trenches and walked into no man's land, about half way between the trenches, they shook hands and exchanged cigarettes and chocolate whilst wishing each other a merry Christmas,
a soccer ball was produced and both sides played soccer this went on for a while,slowly both sides dispersed back to their own respective trenches.
the next day the shelling started again and the war was back on. The miracle of peace and goodwill to all men never meant so much as it did on Christmas day 1914.
merry christmas everyone.....jimmy
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thanks alison,i know i bore you with it sometimes lol....jimmy
p.s love you
I love old war stories, Jimmy. This is a great one.
Great Hub as usual, Jimmy. I saw the movie "Joyeux Noel" on DVD and it was quite a movie. Actually, according to a couple of accounts that I have read the truce was rather widespread along the front and lasted for a few days. According to one account, Chanceries all over Europe were working overtime that Christmas trying to figure out how to get the war going again. Chuck
Incredible.
Good work but reallly short. You didnt mention they also buried their dead. Would you also write "moral of the lesson"?
One of the best stories from WWI.
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I am certainly not gay just ask my wife and kids, but anyway if I was gay what difference would it make?, please grow up and get a life.....jimmy
man i would have never thought that would have happened i Guss its a true Christmas marical
wowwww....thanks...this is good for my history project....
its good my english
Thanks. This and your other page about a day in the trenches have really helped me with my history project! Thank you again so much!
this will help a lot with my report
Yes i heard something like that a while ago
Its kind of shows that everyone has their limits of hatred and that there might even be a santa clause yet
Thankyou verymuch jimmy this will help me a lot on my exit project, maybe without this site iwouldnt be able to pass my s.s. class.
-keep up the good work
I'm very pleased with the stories on this ssite, otherwhise I wasn't been able to make my report about the World War one. Thank you very much!
It is not clearly explained man. I need this !!!!!!!
thanks, this helped alot for my history project too :D
i have a prject to it sux :0
WOW!! TYhe info here is soo reliable!! I don't have a history assignment... yet>.>, but we are studying WWI in history at the moment. After reading this, I think I may get a better mark this time. (crosses fingers). THANX!!
i enjoy history and this reali helped me a lot i hve a test and this was the best site hopefully i'll pass it,wish me luck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I read about this many years ago. The way the story was told, the next day the soldiers on both sides refused to fire on each other . New troops had to be brought in to resume fighting.
that is such a sweet storie and really interesting this will help alot with my english project
Although this is true,there was more to the tale than this.The germans were first to leave the trenches.one was shot as he did so by the british.but the germans persisted.they did eet in no mans land,but a few generals got to know about it and werent best pleased.thier fears were founded to be right,cause even though the fighting went on the next day,soldiers on both sides were actually aiming high,and shelling out of range.see they had put a face to the enemey,and no longer thought of each other as faceless monsters.they were moved to another front.and an order was goven this sort of thing is punishable by death.
great page
nice...I want to post on Facebook ..r u ok with it?
u r coolio thanks. best web so far if wasnt 4 u i will get a detention 4 not doing my homework
Nice
I'm currently writing a play about the Christmas Truce.
Here is a spoken word piece and a video I made on youtube about it!
Hope you like it. Inspiring story. It should be taught in schools.
Wow amazing story peace for a little bit. I have to make a ww1 journal and I will now include Christmas.
this helped me with my extra homework
thank u so much jimmy.
it was a mirical cuz my teacher said "a mirical that u wont see every day in the war" and many Ppl said they was going to do the football match they did. and the song was great for the translation. my teacher said that i might go up to another table for my extra work if i keep up the good work :)
Thanks- very useful!
Merry Christmas?
thnx
scotslass 5 years ago
always knew you liked the war jimmy and listening and reading your knowledge about it is amazing