Today I Found Out

Today I Found Out

The Amazing WWI Christmas Miracle (2015x13)


: 02, 2015

→Subscribe for new videos every day! http://bit.ly/todayifoundoutsubscribe →Why Do Superheroes Wear ’’s leaders than the soldiers on the field actually inherently feeling any real malice towards those they are asked to try to kill or otherwise defeat. Few events in history illustrate this as well as a remarkable episode that took place during WWI when, despite the orders of their commanding officers and leaders, the soldiers threw aside their weapons, got out of the trenches and had a make-shift Christmas party with those that just hours before they’d been trying to kill. This momentous event has become known as The Christmas Truce. Want the text version? http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2012/12/december-24-1914-the-christmas-truce/ Resources/Further Reading: Image Credit (thank you) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:British_WW1_Rifleman_(7528015992).jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_64th_regiment_celebrate_the_Armistice.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pope_Benedictus_XV.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Battle_of_the_Somme_film_image2.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-R01213,_Versailles,_deutsche_Verhandlungdelegation.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Romanian_Officers_WWI.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Royal_Irish_Rifles_ration_party_Somme_July_1916.jpg https://ettubrute15.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/friendly-soldiers.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Illustrated_London_News_-_Christmas_Truce_1914.jpg https://sjdahlman.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/trucedm2603_468x252.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stretcher_bearers_Passchendaele_August_1917.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WWI_Pen_Franked_%22Soldier_Mail%22_Cover.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Censored_mail_Spain_Australia_1943.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Big_four.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Massengrab_Fromelles_retus

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