The 1914 Christmas Truce (Part 2)
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Christmas Truce
By christmas eve, both sides were hunkered down in shallow, flooded trenches. Taf gillingham is a historian and an expert der of uniforms, props and extras to big t v and film productions. He's the master mind behind our new christmas truce t v show on history hit t v. I asked him about how the british were feeling towards their german adversaries,. In terms of how the average british soldier thought about the germans. War was purely business to them. There was nothing personal about it in those early days - i think plays a crucial part later in the truce.
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