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The Christmas Truce

Witness: Archive 2011 by BBC

Dec 23, 20119:14Society & Culture

On Christmas Eve 1914, during World War I, British and German soldiers stopped fighting. Many of them left their trenches and started to talk and exchange gifts. But after a few hours of peace they were ordered back to t...

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The Christmas Truce is an episode from Witness: Archive 2011 by BBC. On Christmas Eve 1914, during World War I, British and German soldiers stopped fighting. Many of them left their trenches and started to talk and exchange gifts. But after...

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Published Dec 23, 2011, 9:14 long, audio available.