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Monday, March 5, 2012

World War I - Podcast - The Christmas Truce

The Christmas Truce 


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Wed, Dec 21, 2011



During the first Christmas of World War I, British and German soldiers laid down their weapons and celebrated the holiday together. They sang carols, traded insignia and buried their dead. How did the truce start, and why didn't it happen again?


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