Christmas Day Truce Of 1914

There are many accounts of christmas day from 1914 on the front lines.

Christmas day truce of 1914. After five months of bloody fighting on the western front peace descended over the trenches during the christmas season of 1914. Here are two accounts of the astonishing events that occured on 25th december 1914. The pause in fighting was not universally observed nor had it been sanctioned by commanders on either side but along some two thirds of the anglo german front the guns fell silent. But what actually happened on christmas eve and christmas day of 1914 and did they really play soccer on the battlefield.

This day in history. Christmas becomes a holiday. Hostilities had lulled as leadership on both sides reconsidered their strategies following the stalemate of the race to the sea and the indecisive result. Christmas truce december 24 25 1914 impromptu cease fire that occurred along the western front during world war i.

The truce occurred only five months into the war. The 1914 christmas truce occurred december 24 to 25 in some places december 24 through january 1 1914 during the first year of world war i 1914 to 1918. Trêve de noël was a series of widespread unofficial ceasefires along the western front of the first world war around christmas 1914. Christmas truce of 1914.

The christmas truce german.