The 1914 Christmas Truce (Part 2)
Dan Snow's History Hit
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Who Starts the Christmas Truce?
Peter hart points out that when it did come to trucing, language wasn't quite the barrier that we might now. Many of them had worked as waiters or in butchers shops in london and manchester,. There were lots of germans who'd lived in england, and therefore they could shout out across nomans land. The british, in a cheery, chirpy cockney style, would shout back. And this sort of banter goes across, no one sir. It's going on on the night of the 20 fourth christmas eve. That's the sort of thing that's happening. So who starts the christmas truce? Wthat's interested
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