The 1914 Christmas Truce (Part 2)
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Germans Singing Silent Night
The christmas truce is a collection of individual incidents that happen spontaneously all along the front line, mostly between the british and germans. The fighting continued virtually everywhere, except for that section of the front, which was heldd by the British expeditionary force. In most of northern belgium and france, fighting continued as well. Brandy cigarettes and cigars had cross the lines in some tos of the franco german front line. But these were exceptions. For the french and belgians this was a much more concrete and personal war against te foreign occupier.
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