The famous Christmas Truce in a advertisement

[Pops1967GTX]

It’s a good advertisement....questions & answers arise......
[video=youtube;NWF2JBb1bvM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWF2JBb1bvM[/video]

 

[mightymopar]

WOW, if only......... God Bless everyone.

 

[patrick66]

Amazing that. Might as well be the first to wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving and a Merry Christmas!

 

[wahya]

I had to look that one up. Apparently things like that actually happened in WW-I.

 

[satman72]

Nice advert!

 

[Budnicks]

great advert.

unfortunately in the days & months latter,
millions {100's of thousands anyway} died
in poison & mustard gas/chemical & trench warfare

nasty war, like all are,
we were at-least fighting an army in a uniform,
not like todays conflicts/wars

 

[J-Mart]

This did actually happen. As a former History major in college, I did a thesis on Obedience to Authority. The so called Christmas Truce of 1914 took place during the dog days of WWI and started exactly as the advert showed it. Soldiers in the trenches began to sing Christmas carols. Eventually, both the British and German soldiers climbed out if the trenches and began to cut pine trees down from the nearby forest and decorate them as if Christmas trees. They put these Christmas trees in "No Mans Land" and a soccer game broke out between the British and German soldiers. Once daylight broke in Christmas Day, the soldiers exchanged gifts, and had a small feast. After the feast, the soldiers shook hands and retreated out of the front lines, and both regiments turned back and went on home.

It truly is amazing what can happen just because of the Christmas Spirit. Bitter rivals, both human, can set aside differences for one night and come together as a race, and enjoy the similarities between the two groups: simply being alive during a tremendously hateful time in Europe.