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Christmas Armistice in World War I

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At the beginning of World War I, in 1914, the participating countries expected the war to end within a few months at most, but

Powerful new weapons abounded, leading to trench warfare, making the war miserable and boring.

As a result, the soldiers began to tire physically and mentally.

As the war continued, it was already Christmas, and the soldiers of the two countries, Britain and Germany,

To celebrate Christmas, we had a small event in the trenches singing Christmas carols.

The sound of the carols passed over the no-man’s land and flowed into the opposing side’s trenches, and the soldiers in the trenches

They find out that the soldiers on the other side are also celebrating Christmas like them.

Then the German soldiers placed small Christmas trees decorated with candles and lights on top of the trenches.

He started putting it up, and then a German soldier gathered his courage and held something up.

Out of the trenches.

What the German soldier was carrying was neither a gun nor a grenade.

It was a small Christmas tree. The surprised British troops took a fighting stance, but

No one shot him.

Soldiers from both countries, seeing this, came out of the trenches and met each other in the armed zone.

We shared friendship by shaking hands and exchanging favorite items such as cigarettes, alcohol, and food.

At this time, the corpses of soldiers from both sides abandoned in the no-man’s land were also properly recovered.

In one unit, the soldiers cleared the plain where corpses were strewn about and played soccer with each other.

The result was Germany winning 3-2.

However, the aftermath of the Christmas blackout was not good.

When the military leaders of both sides heard this news, they were furious and arrested the instigator and punished him.

Monitoring was conducted to ensure that something like this would not happen again.

However, the soldiers on both sides, who had already tasted the truce, said that when their inspection team showed up,

He fired blank bullets or missed bullets at the opposing soldiers, and the soldiers

I faked it by pretending to get hit and disappearing. This method is said to have worked surprisingly well.

The Christmas Blackout occurred only in 1914.

Afterwards, if you show any signs of doing so, a cannonball will fly, so sneak away.

By stopping the shooting, they ended up tacitly ending the fighting.

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