WW1 Christmas Truce: Silent Night - Extra History - #1
Added 2017-12-17 16:00:59 +0000 UTCThe Christmas Truce is one of the most poignant events of the First World War: a time when men rose above the madness of the conflict and (for just a moment) saw each other as fellow humans. How did it happen?
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What makes me love this Ladies and Gentlemen, is that the Monday before it was youtube and I had to prior knowledge of the subject, I wrote a heartfelt piece about the 1914 Truce, and I was grateful to see this pop up the following Sat and learn more about what I feel is one of the greatest showings of Humanity coming through in the most inhumane of times
Breck Starr
2018-01-10 08:47:35 +0000 UTCAnd I have finally joined World of Tanks. It's downloading and installing, now. I don't know how much I'll play, as generally I avoid PVP. But if I can raise charity funds through live-streaming, I'm willing to get squished, over and over. :)
Bill Lemmond
2017-12-23 00:00:35 +0000 UTCI'm hoping, some day, with my web comic, to show an episode of Dr. Luther's alternate reality viewer, in which the Christmas truce was adopted by the various army leaders, then their governments, and the war ended. To roughly quote Terry Pratchett, "There's no better present than a future."
Bill Lemmond
2017-12-22 23:09:04 +0000 UTCThat is the cutest bed-time story I've ever heard of. :} Props to your dad, and I hope we did justice to this tale you grew up on!
Extra History
2017-12-22 19:37:47 +0000 UTCI've heard so many recommendations for this movie, I think I have to check it out!
Extra History
2017-12-22 19:37:17 +0000 UTCThe photo of them playing football together always gets me.
Extra History
2017-12-22 19:37:04 +0000 UTCCan we declare every day of the year a holiday and have our soldiers trade cigars and booze every holiday forever?
Extra History
2017-12-22 19:36:48 +0000 UTCHuh, that's an interesting take! I could see it.
Extra History
2017-12-22 19:36:11 +0000 UTCHonestly I'm pleased we got to go back to WW1 as well. Rob Rath (the writer for this series) did a wonderful job dispelling common myths about the Truce while still showing how many amazing acts of courage and humanity brought it into being.
Extra History
2017-12-22 19:35:53 +0000 UTCI know! I really like this series, but it made our editor cry.
Extra History
2017-12-22 19:31:27 +0000 UTCWell, gear up for Sunday then because there's one more episode coming!
Extra History
2017-12-22 19:29:32 +0000 UTCThis was one of my favorite bed-time stories that my dad told me growing up. My dad loves history (particularly WWI and WWII); so I got some rather unconventional bed-time stories as a child.
Tabitha Hooper
2017-12-22 00:11:28 +0000 UTCIf you are intrested, there is a French movie about the christmas truce in WW1. It's called "Joyeux Noël". I dont know how the title was translated in english, but a litteral translation would be "Merry Christmas".
Iforgotmyname
2017-12-18 12:14:06 +0000 UTCAgreed, Christina.
Martin Verran
2017-12-18 09:10:01 +0000 UTCI always get teary eyed when people talk about the Christmas truce. It's one of those rare, beautiful moments where, just for a second, everyone was human. No vanity, no anger, just peace in the middle of war.
Ryan Wojciechowski
2017-12-17 19:32:39 +0000 UTCKnowing that people used this to spy and prepare for war doesn't change how I feel. It's a miracle made by people. People who rose above the hate of war, if only for a little while. I hope one day we can do that again.
Jason Youngberg
2017-12-17 17:18:07 +0000 UTCI recently read that the truce was essentially the product of trench warfare - unmoving and for long times facing the same enemy, it's essentially a repeated prisoner's dilemma that allowed for the building of trust, which would be far harder in mobile wars where one would rapidly switch enemies.
Cifer
2017-12-17 16:37:04 +0000 UTCThis story really does show both the human capacity for empathy and bonding and the intrinsic brutality of states at war. I do appreciate that the First World War seems to be less forgotten than it was just a decade or so ago. It was so important and, yet, for most of my life, most of what people had to say about it was that it must have existed since there was a second one.
Christina Maria Jessen
2017-12-17 16:22:01 +0000 UTCthis video is so sweet, but also so tragic
Heath Dionne
2017-12-17 16:11:06 +0000 UTCYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYY!!! I've been Longing for Extra History to Return to the First World War and it Finally has! This is definately One of the best Early Christmas Presents I have received.
Martin Verran
2017-12-17 16:09:58 +0000 UTC
