War is fought by common man, but declared by cowards who sit comfortably in their offices, homes & congresses. We are all brothers, yet against each other we pick up the standard to the death. There is no glory in battles, only the cries of pain, lost loves, mothers. Send the deputies, the congresses, the presidents, the leaders to war. It is their war, they so declared; let us stay home. Silent night it would be, if we just didn't go, for surely the pontificators dare not venture to.
as much as i love this movie, and love the song in the movie, this version just falls completely flat compared to the version in the film with bagpipes and soldiers singing it..... this version isn't nearly as heartfelt sounding
Another song fills my Mind here, "From a distance You look like my friend Even though we are at war From a distance I just cannot comprehend What all this fightings for
Bless you all my European kin, if only we all had had the courage to "down weapons" and let the rulers of our Countries gone and done all their own dirty work!
hommage a tout ces soldats Français, Britaniques et Allemands qui ont fratèernisés lors de cette nuit du 24 décembre 1914... plus de différence entre eux, plus d'ennemis ou d'alliés, juste des hommes embarqués dans une guerre sanglante qui n'était pas la leur....
Whenever I listen to you playing this piece, I am reminded of the beautiful winter I spent in Berlin 2 years ago. I see the faces of my friends, my flat in Prenzlauer Berg and the wonderful lifestyle I had. I live in Vancouver now and can't wait to return to Berlin where I was so warmly welcomed.
Wow, saw this movie the first time at Christmas while snowed in for three days. Many will also like "It Could Happen Again" by Colin Raye with Johnny Cash, on youtube.
Do you know that the rulers of Russian and Germany were cousins and tried desperately to avoid the war? It was forced by internal politics. "Undoubtedly this is the most stupid, senseless and unnecessary war of modern times. It is a war not wanted by Germany."--German Crown Prince Wilhelm. See my website for more info
i where in war, 2 years staight in iraq, lost my two best comerades there, il say.... ive met taliban people who where good humans aswell, war is wrong, i love this mowie, and thinks that if we all really did try, all at once, we could create peace.... it is what i like to belive..., rip fallen comerades, and may we all see trueth someday, peace all,
I'm german and we watched this movie in our french lessons..i really think it's a great movie and i just had to look for this song..such a beutiful movie and a sad ending.. i really tried hard not to cry...i failed, but i wasn't the only one^^
I cried multiple times throughout this movie.. Especially at the end, despite the Officer destroying the Soldier's harmonica.. Did that stop those soldiers from singing? From remembering how they had found comradeship in men who were their so-called "Enemies"...? Never, they sang despite the scorn that Officer poured upon them, because no matter what that Officer did, he could never make those Soldiers inhuman.
Six years ago a young boy turned on his TV and watched a very strange movie called ,,Joyeux Noël". He cried and cried for several hours. Today I watched it again. I'm 17 and I''m not ashamed to admit that I cried and cried again like 6 years ago. This movie is amazing and I want to say to everyone who never watched it. Now is the time!
,,Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind."
@TheBranchez mate, i fought 2 years in iraq, and seen much shit, and lost my two best freinds there, i love this mowie, course of the fackt that we are not so difrent, and we can all make a difrence, and i agree, we must put an end to war and sacrifice, we must all be better people, we must learn to stop the pain, and stop the killing,
@TheBranchez You're not the only one. My favorite humorist make me cried in this movie. It's amazing.
I don't want any other war. I love both Germans, Scottish, French, Russians, the whole humanity. Our countries, families have so much suffered and its still suffering today. Our LAND is suffering. Please put an end on war, every wars. ( sorry for the english )
@TheBranchez A little over ago a Jewish man was shown this movie by his best friend, a Catholic. Both men were 32 at the time, both men cried several times, and both men now have this movie among their favorites :) "I'm dreaming of home I feel so alone, I'm dreaming of home..."
I cannot watch "Joyeux Noel" or hear this song without crying like a freakin' BABY. :')
This song, and "It Could Happen Again" by Colin Raye are dedicated to those soldiers who "franternized", and became gifts to each other, friends. :') To the soldiers on that cold night, and even to their descendants: Thank you.
Esta é a mais linda história de Natal de todos os tempos. Nunca haverá um Natal como o de 1914 em que inimigos colocaram de lado suas diferenças confraternizando uma paz efêmera. Que isso sirva de lição a todos os povos de todos os tempos e que guerras nunca mais manchem a nossa história. Vivam em PAZ.
My greatgrandfather fell 1916 somewhere at the western front, in France. I like to visit his grave some day. His brother fell one year later in Russia.
When his brother left his family after holiday, to go back to Russia, he should have said to them: "Oh, could I still live longer with you together!" And he said, that the death is not so bad as to leave his family. They never saw him again.
R.I.P all the French,Irish,Scottish,English,British,German,Hollanders,Austrians,Canadians,Italian and all other people who died it was the leaders who should have fought each other not the soldiers!
The prince at the end was clearly worried about the ordinary German soldiers seeing they had more in common with their British and French brothers than with their rulers.
I wouldn't say he was worried. But rather, personally defeated in an unspoken challenge. He had tried to crush their spirits by loading them on a train and shipping them off to a grim front. He wanted them to whimper. But instead, the soldiers sang the song they had learned from the Scottish.
The Prince, seeing that he could not take away their humanity, was out of weapons to use against them. In a frustrated "Bah, why should I care anyway?" manner, he walked away in defeat.
Aujourd'hui, je suis fier de voir que la France et l'Allemagne sont non seulement en paix, mais probablement les deux nations d'Europe qui s'entendent le mieux.
W.Churchill avait raison, la priorité pour que plus jamais l'Europe ne connaisse de guerre, était bien de réconcilier ces deux nations, ou plutôt ces ceux peuples, si différents, et en même temps si similaire. (regardez arte, chaîne franco-allemande d'ailleurs, en particulier l'émission karambolage, ça en donne un parfait exemple)
God bless the sons of Europe. Too long, too much have our fathers suffered, my brothers. My deepest respect and much love to my German, French, British, Dutch and Belgian brothers. Let us never again been send to slay one another by Generals, Presidents, Chancellors and politicians. If they want war, let them fight themselves! God bless you all
Presidents decide the war. But they themselves go not die in the war to the pointless one. If they themselves are too cowardly. For it they abuse her people.No soldier should have to shoot at another. Nevertheless, they all are most even fathers. No child should have to grow up without father.No child, no father, no mother should have to die only because it presidents or religious leaders so want!
Den Krieg beschliessen Präsidenten. Aber sie selbst gehen nicht in den Krieg zum sinnlosen sterben. Sind sie selbst zu feige. Dafür missbrauchen sie ihre Völker.Kein Soldat sollte auf einen anderen schießen müssen. Sie alle sind doch meist selbst Väter. Kein Kind sollte ohne Vater aufwachsen müssen.Kein Kind, kein Vater, keine Mutter soll sterben müssen nur weil es Präsidenten oder Religionsführer so wollen!
"Undoubtedly this is the most stupid, senseless and unnecessary war of modern times. It is a war not wanted by Germany...
—German Crown Prince Wilhelm
You can read about the truce and letters concerning it by those soldiers who were there in Oh Holy Night: The Peace of 1914. It really should have ended right then.
This movie is truely beautiful, as is the song. It is incredible and inspirational. If the world could watch this they might learn a thing or two. We are all just one human race, and dispite our nationalities, colors, or religion, we aren't as different as we think. It's so sad to think that things were only like this for a day.
Le 25 Décembre 1914, des hommes passent Noël dehors, dans des tranchées ou des ruines loin de leur famille avec comme seuls compagnons de guerre, leurs camarades de section et d'autres hommes en face, de l'autre coté de la tranchée, que l'on a déja vu oui..Mais du bout d'un viseur pendu à la gachette seulement...
Craciun fericit, tuturor! Am vazut acest film aseara si am ramas impresionat de poveste si mesajul trimis. Craciunul este un miracol, mai presus de cuvinte si orgolii. Joyeux Noel! Merry Christmas! Frohe Weinachten!...
It should be noted that during the war, Adolf Hitler, then a soldier fighting for Germany, spoke with disgust to this event: "Such a thing should not happen in wartime. Have you no German sense of honour left at all?"
Disgusting.
May Hitler's memory continue to rot in the blackest pages of history.
"Undoubtedly this is the most stupid, senseless and unnecessary war of modern times. It is a war not wanted by Germany..."--Crown Prince Wilhelm
The great tagedies of this war are described in Oh Holy Night: The Peace of 1914, focusing on letters written home by these soldiers who made the truce.
@specialkate00 ...It’s carried in the air The breeze of early morning I see the land so fair My heart opens wide There’s sadness inside I stand where I am And forever I’m dreaming of home I feel so alone, I’m dreaming of home This is no foreign sky I see no foreign light But far away am I From some peaceful land I’m longing to stand A hand in my hand … forever I’m dreaming of home I feel so alone, I’m dreaming of home.
the most hideous of all is how a nation raise the children thinking that all the others are the enemies that have to be exterminated and the church supports it!
I used to think that Saving Private Ryan was the best war movie ever made. When I saw this one (about a year ago) I changed my opinion. this was the greast movie I had ever seen. Because It shows not only the horrors of war but also that we are all human, and it shows human compassion and that no matter what country you are from we are one. I have never cried so much during a movie.
Well, if the current wars were folks who celebrate christmas (for whatever reasons) against those who celebrate christmas (for whatever reasons), possibly...but only possibly. Right now, a majority of violent or potentially violent combat zones are between enemies who do and don't celebrate the holiday, or (in the current case of korea) don't celebrate Christmas in the traditional sense at all. Back then, these men weren't that different at all, except for where they came from.
To think that we have come so far. I wonder what these soldiers would have thought of the European Union and the peace and friendship we enjoy today as European brethren.
For some time, starting in the 19th Century, people feared that the machine, the rifle, the factory, and so forth would destroy the human spirit. As the drums of war grew, it did indeed begin to look like the very science that had brought us so many gifts would then slaughter millions and take away our human souls.
However, this moment proved that no machine or mechanization could kill our inner humanity. Even in the darkest times of machine war, the embers of compassion could reignite.
You can't help but think about the foreshadowing of the men's future, particularly Audebert's and Horstmayer's. Horstmayer is a Jew and even if he survived the Eastern Front, he may not survive Hitler. Audebert, being transfered to Verdun, may not even survive the war.
Such a beautiful film, it really highlights that you can find beauty and happiness even in the worst of times, and that regardless of what army these soldiers are from, they are really all good people just trying to survive and make it home. They all love and hate, they all breathe and think... these young men are just like each other, forced into a war by old men. Fighting to survive and return to their families.
Letters of the soldiers: "The truce of God had been called, and the rest of Christmas Day was filled with peace and goodwill.” "We had a short service over the graves, conducted by our minister and the German one...Psalm and had a short prayer. I don't think I will ever forget the Christmas Day I spent in the trenches." "one German said 'But you are of the same religion as us and today is the day of peace! It is really a great triumph for the church.'"
The "best" nature of humanity--sentiment one day, for Roman Holiday, then back to murdering each other senselessly for a few square centimeters of mucky ground the next. Dead husbands, sons, fathers, brothers all the same for a good sing and a hug. Seeing the light for a few hours, but denying its superior ways, and higher moral authority, and going back to chauvinism & patriotism and brutality as if the moment of sanity never existed. So what exactly was set aside? Postponed for a moment.
You fail to realize that a majority of those who actually participated in the unofficial Christmas Truce of 1914 were expediently shipped out to other parts of the front for their respective countries, because their commanding officers were alarmed at such fratnernization keeping their soldiers from "fighting the good fight." Most (not ALL, but most) soldiers who took part in the Christmas Truce were moved to other front lines to kill men they DIDN'T franternize with. AKA you fail
I remember reading about the christmas truce in my history class. It was so beautiful and wonderful that I couldn't believe something like this ever took place.
I just saw this movie: one of the most inspiring films i ever saw. A must see for everyone: time to unite, time to recognize your brothers and sisters, regardles their race, sex, color or religion. Dont fight the conflict of the rich elite, dont destroy your habitat for money...
This is the kind of movie everyone needs to see. Cut this silly notion of superficial differences. We are all one on the soul level. But that is not what the elite wants. They want the population control and at the same time profit from our death through creating superficial crisis and wage wars. They have done it throughout known history. This disgusting pattern has to end.
Todays NWO crisis can serve as a great opportunity for all of us to break this vicious Cycle. Simply recognize how we are used and refuse to cooperate. Their fake money and weapons can not wage wars by themselves. They need someone to execute their dirty conspiracy theory plans.
I'm french and I've seen this movie which has touched me so much, it's so wonderful.. I've cried, yes I've cried, because of the music, the story. Thanks to this kind of movie, we can undertand that war is bullshits !!
@djeanakin i share your sentiment my freind. im scotish and it was this film that showed me no matter language, race or creed, we are all just human beings and we would do well to remember that.
@albertjester (My djeanakin count has bugged so I removed it, and created a new one (dje6429)) Thanks dear friend ! You're asolutely right, fucking wars making all of us devils, guilties are only countries governors, using us (citizens) as sheeps !!
PS : I love your country !! But still not visited =(
Since when does pitting tens of hundreds of innocents against each other considered to be the pinnacle of honor and love for thy kind ? Hell ! These men during Christmas did what hordes of diplomats couldn't be bothered to achieve : peace ! And when these poor souls proved peace was possible ... what do the rulers do ? Threaten them to go back to war ! Fighting for peace and liberty ... what a bunch of bull !
Beautiful action on all sides? But then.. next morn...back to mud slingin? Positions givin away? Hell at that point ppl should have wrapped it up said fuck u kaiser, fuck you king, im goin home to my fam,,but we're humans and in 20 years want war again, a rowdy bunch of shits we are...A good ass kickin to all of us would set it straight.
@Pealanor And, had WW1 ended at that time, it's entirely possible that WWII never would have happened either. Imagine what the world would have been...
@CaptainAardvaark So true and so sad. The hateful attitudes and the severe penalties imposed on the starving German people at the end of WWI laid a foundation upon which WWII could be built. See the book about it on amazon, Oh Holy Night: The Peace of 1914.
No, really. The cat did not understand such silly things as national divides and political squabbles. What it could comprehend was the common humanity that all soldiers had.
And is a german cat any different from a french cat? An Iranian Cat from an American Cat? The answer really is no. So, why should an Iranian Human be any different from an American Human?
So, in that sense, the cat really is the wisest character in the film.
I am not a German, French or Scottish, But I am a Human who loves peace and Humanity. It is by seeing such Great example of what Humanity really is and how much potential a human soul has to bring peace at times of war, I cry.
Tous que c'est gens au souffert ... & Personnellement ce n'est pas contre les Allemand mais c'est "eux" qui on voulu faire la guerre croyant qu'il allait gagné. Mais il on perdu ... C'est triste Tous ces gens morts ! Il faut honorer et ne pas oublier. Cette trêve.. MAGNIFIQUE ! On retrouve l'être humain. PEACE AND L0VE <3
There is a link on my website [link on my page here] "Christmas Truce" which will take you to a UK site where they have lots of letters that describe the truces, written by the soldiers.
To end my first message, French had 200.000 killed soldiers in the first battles and their countries Belgium and France invaded by germans. For sure no one french or belgian soldier could drink and play football with the enemy even for Christmas ! Did the British made Christmas truce on the Somme line in december 1916 ? Certainly not !!
@Biloutemag There were reports of different types of truces in many different places on the Western front. There were attempts the next years as well, but the reason they didn't happen is because higher officers on both sides obviously couldn't allow it so they tended to shell the crap out of each other (among many other measures taken to avoid another truce, including different rotation systems to avoid fraternising with the enemy) every Christmas after 1914.
To tell the truth, Christmas truce in 1914 concerned only British and German troops around the town of Ypres (Belg). In december 1914, British were "only" 70.000 to fight in France (professional soldiers). They came massively in France but later (1915-1916). 95% of the war front concerned only German and French troops (1.200.000 for the French)... and no truce there !
What this should show is not 'Aww stupid war bad mistake' but how insane the leaders of the world are, all propaganda about foreign countries is phony, with what little care for the human life or spirit the world is controlled by those who hide from our eyes.
This isn't testimony to the potential amongst just a few men, but humans and mankind overall, when the veil is lifted, and what you're really fighting against is shown (Think Iraq, Afghanistan).
This movie is so hard for me to watch. I'm an American with British (Scottish, Irish, Welsh, English), French, and German heritage. Watching my cousins go through this...it's horrifying.
Please, why do you bring argument to this area! To a time when the best of humanity was shown?
This was not about religion. nor was it against religion. It was about simple brotherhood and love. Is that such a hard thing to comprehend? That your neighbor can be your neighbor and not your enemy? Regardless of who that neighbor worships?
Being german and father of three french kids. Their grandfathers were enimies in the 2. war, their great-grandfathers in the 1. war. Who can understand that f...... world. It is so much better to make love instead of war.....
This movie affects me in a way that few have! This film, as only film seems able to do, helps me understand the courage required of each participant in the truce, each step of the way toward each other and toward nonviolence, in defiance of orders and expectations and in the face of real danger and possible betrayal. "Joyeux Noel" celebrates humanity, and shows that we can overcome our most primal fears and trust our best instincts. Monsieur Rombi and confreres, I salute you!
The very ending is very poignant in that it juxtaposes the harsh military Prussian style martinent cold heart with the men's simple basic human instinct for feelings as expressed in their singing the fraternization tune.
A stupid, senseless and bloddy war how killed a improbably number of french men, destroyed the german empire and brought Germany to hate and destruction... never forget WW one.
I mean, its just so beautiful how the German soldiers never forgot what they learned from their French and Scottish friends, and even the lieutenant hummed along.
And its sad how most of them probably perished in the Eastern Front..
please dont speak of the pope, he wont admit to the suffering the catholic hurch has caused Ireland, a nation who followed a useless cause, The pope my .... religion has caused so much conflict .
The proganda machines of the warring nations were panicked. These soldiers had discovered the humanity in each other, and needed to hide it. France denied the event and punished the soldiers. So did the Germans and English.
However, try as they might, the propoganda machines of the nations could not stop the chorus of truth. The British Media let it out with a cheerful hurrah.
The message in this stunning occassion has nothing to do with religion; it has everything to do with the human spirit. Yes, religious celebration was the source behind the semantics, but above all it is a testament to humanity's ability to set aside pointless, political and even national ideology, and to simply accept the fact that, no matter what nation or faith you come from, the man standing across the field from you is still your brother.
France was not the cause of this WW1 and lose 1.400.000 soldiers, 10% of all the male french active people (much more than all americans soldiers died in all US wars !) but a good part of american people did'nt hesitate to name the french "cheese eating surrender monkeys" because France refuse to follow them in their stupid and arrogant Irak war.
"but a good part of american people did'nt hesitate to name the french 'cheese eating surrender monkeys' ".
That sir is not the "good part of American people", that sir is the ignorant part, the misinformed part, the part of a people that every nation has inluding France.
France was a major supplier of high grade weapons and technology to Saddam and now want to sell weapons to the Iraq Army today.
I am insulted. Not every American is a dumb idiot.
The people who took part in this truce were the most heroic figures in the entire war. It was a dark conflict, but we must all take solace in the lanterns that history provides us in our black timeline: for they are rare.
French nationalism was one of the reason for WOI. The French wanted revenche for 1870/1871 when their asses were kicked by a German army 4 times smaller then theirs. So when Russia invaded Germany (1914), Germany and Russia were at war, France quickly declared war on Germany. So...
The Prussian Army held a brief victory parade in Paris on 17 February, and Bismarck honoured the armistice by sending trainloads of food into Paris and withdrawing Prussian forces to the east of the city, which would be withdrawn as soon as France agreed to pay five-billion francs in war indemnity.[
Ouais cette musique.... j'en pleure...;
djougachvilli 6 days ago
does anyone else ever catch themselves humming at the end?
germanmerc2010 1 week ago in playlist Liked videos
a voir et a revoir ! surtout en période de noel !
et puis des musique magnifique comme celle ci donne encore plus de charme au film
DarkRoro80 2 weeks ago
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War is fought by common man, but declared by cowards who sit comfortably in their offices, homes & congresses. We are all brothers, yet against each other we pick up the standard to the death. There is no glory in battles, only the cries of pain, lost loves, mothers. Send the deputies, the congresses, the presidents, the leaders to war. It is their war, they so declared; let us stay home. Silent night it would be, if we just didn't go, for surely the pontificators dare not venture to.
signlaw 2 weeks ago
as much as i love this movie, and love the song in the movie, this version just falls completely flat compared to the version in the film with bagpipes and soldiers singing it..... this version isn't nearly as heartfelt sounding
jellokatt 2 weeks ago
I have the film in DVD. It's wonderful... I love when they sing this song, with the bag pipes... <3 Peace
CatBahptista 2 weeks ago
one of the best films ever...
francogales777 1 month ago
Joyeux Noel à tous!
Merry Christmas everybody!
ghilliedu25 1 month ago
bonne souvenirs du chanson parce que je l'est chante a la choral en 4eme lol
brizardstri 1 month ago
Another song fills my Mind here, "From a distance You look like my friend Even though we are at war From a distance I just cannot comprehend What all this fightings for
Bless you all my European kin, if only we all had had the courage to "down weapons" and let the rulers of our Countries gone and done all their own dirty work!
TheRanhyn 1 month ago
4:20 is very beautiful =)
KillianOuahbi 1 month ago
good song
thejaykid34 2 months ago
hommage a tout ces soldats Français, Britaniques et Allemands qui ont fratèernisés lors de cette nuit du 24 décembre 1914... plus de différence entre eux, plus d'ennemis ou d'alliés, juste des hommes embarqués dans une guerre sanglante qui n'était pas la leur....
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Whenever I listen to you playing this piece, I am reminded of the beautiful winter I spent in Berlin 2 years ago. I see the faces of my friends, my flat in Prenzlauer Berg and the wonderful lifestyle I had. I live in Vancouver now and can't wait to return to Berlin where I was so warmly welcomed.
vleeium 3 months ago
Wow, saw this movie the first time at Christmas while snowed in for three days. Many will also like "It Could Happen Again" by Colin Raye with Johnny Cash, on youtube.
Do you know that the rulers of Russian and Germany were cousins and tried desperately to avoid the war? It was forced by internal politics. "Undoubtedly this is the most stupid, senseless and unnecessary war of modern times. It is a war not wanted by Germany."--German Crown Prince Wilhelm. See my website for more info
sdcoyote70 3 months ago
Esta canción es hermosa, igual que la película misma. No más guerras. Saludos desde Perú.
This song is beautiful, same the movie. No more war. Greetings from Peru.
batallonzepita 3 months ago 2
gorgeos
ElRafoRandom 3 months ago
i where in war, 2 years staight in iraq, lost my two best comerades there, il say.... ive met taliban people who where good humans aswell, war is wrong, i love this mowie, and thinks that if we all really did try, all at once, we could create peace.... it is what i like to belive..., rip fallen comerades, and may we all see trueth someday, peace all,
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I'm german and we watched this movie in our french lessons..i really think it's a great movie and i just had to look for this song..such a beutiful movie and a sad ending.. i really tried hard not to cry...i failed, but i wasn't the only one^^
angelshadow95 4 months ago
@angelshadow95 Long live to the friendly German/French !!! =)
mcdidi04 2 months ago
The History of Verdun, Yper or any other place where WW1 took place, converts even the die-hard warmovie/wargame admirer.
Hunter7471 4 months ago
I cried multiple times throughout this movie.. Especially at the end, despite the Officer destroying the Soldier's harmonica.. Did that stop those soldiers from singing? From remembering how they had found comradeship in men who were their so-called "Enemies"...? Never, they sang despite the scorn that Officer poured upon them, because no matter what that Officer did, he could never make those Soldiers inhuman.
DictionaryDylan 4 months ago 2
Beautiful song, world peace would be possible if there weren't any greediness, or selfishness and evil in humans..
MemoriesOnTheMoon 6 months ago
I'm sure Erich Maria Remarque would have loved this movie. =)
Eniphesoj90 6 months ago
17 fucking warmongers dropped by.
Noobfromafar 6 months ago 2
this music make's me cry and gratfull for all the who made a truce ar christmas. (:]
(sad smiley face)
Linway501st 6 months ago
The reason why this is so sad, is that the European fronts were not only war, but fratricide.
Igosuki 6 months ago
Je suis émue à chaque fois que j'écoute cette chanson! :')
LeilySabeth16 6 months ago
i always watch this film around christmas the music is beautiful
MrsSmillas 7 months ago
Six years ago a young boy turned on his TV and watched a very strange movie called ,,Joyeux Noël". He cried and cried for several hours. Today I watched it again. I'm 17 and I''m not ashamed to admit that I cried and cried again like 6 years ago. This movie is amazing and I want to say to everyone who never watched it. Now is the time!
,,Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind."
John F. Kennedy
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bahhv2 7 months ago
@TheBranchez mate, i fought 2 years in iraq, and seen much shit, and lost my two best freinds there, i love this mowie, course of the fackt that we are not so difrent, and we can all make a difrence, and i agree, we must put an end to war and sacrifice, we must all be better people, we must learn to stop the pain, and stop the killing,
freedom and peace people,
gunnerthedenmark 6 months ago 2
@TheBranchez
well said
angelshadow95 4 months ago
@TheBranchez You're not the only one. My favorite humorist make me cried in this movie. It's amazing.
I don't want any other war. I love both Germans, Scottish, French, Russians, the whole humanity. Our countries, families have so much suffered and its still suffering today. Our LAND is suffering. Please put an end on war, every wars. ( sorry for the english )
Haaldhar 2 months ago
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calkeithgray 3 weeks ago
@TheBranchez A little over ago a Jewish man was shown this movie by his best friend, a Catholic. Both men were 32 at the time, both men cried several times, and both men now have this movie among their favorites :) "I'm dreaming of home I feel so alone, I'm dreaming of home..."
Tigerman1138 3 weeks ago
Chills. I've got chills.
Vivimusic91 8 months ago
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Yes, love that Colin Raye song.
"Undoubtedly this is the most stupid, senseless and unnecessary war of modern times. It is a war not wanted by Germany...
—German Crown Prince Wilhelm
You can read about the truce and letters written by those soldiers who were there in Oh Holy Night: The Peace of 1914.
The war should have ended right then.
sdcoyote70 8 months ago
I cannot watch "Joyeux Noel" or hear this song without crying like a freakin' BABY. :')
This song, and "It Could Happen Again" by Colin Raye are dedicated to those soldiers who "franternized", and became gifts to each other, friends. :') To the soldiers on that cold night, and even to their descendants: Thank you.
Timamalao 8 months ago
Esta é a mais linda história de Natal de todos os tempos. Nunca haverá um Natal como o de 1914 em que inimigos colocaram de lado suas diferenças confraternizando uma paz efêmera. Que isso sirva de lição a todos os povos de todos os tempos e que guerras nunca mais manchem a nossa história. Vivam em PAZ.
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My greatgrandfather fell 1916 somewhere at the western front, in France. I like to visit his grave some day. His brother fell one year later in Russia.
When his brother left his family after holiday, to go back to Russia, he should have said to them: "Oh, could I still live longer with you together!" And he said, that the death is not so bad as to leave his family. They never saw him again.
Best wishes from Germany!
dineloh86 9 months ago
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dineloh86 9 months ago
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CutieaaVivienaa120 9 months ago
When a war is fought for political reasons only and without the slightest shred of an idealogical or moral justification........
.....The soldiers and civilians WILL find out sooner or later!
Scitech101 10 months ago
Une vidéo magnifique avec une chanson forte en émotion.
C'est sublime.
Never1710 10 months ago
it's so sad to be part of any war... i hope we make a better world!
ketermedia 11 months ago 3
R.I.P all the French,Irish,Scottish,English,British,German,Hollanders,Austrians,Canadians,Italian and all other people who died it was the leaders who should have fought each other not the soldiers!
JordoF6 11 months ago
Vive l'Europe fraternelle !
LecktroX 11 months ago 2
The prince at the end was clearly worried about the ordinary German soldiers seeing they had more in common with their British and French brothers than with their rulers.
DuffmanIRL 1 year ago
@DuffmanIRL
I wouldn't say he was worried. But rather, personally defeated in an unspoken challenge. He had tried to crush their spirits by loading them on a train and shipping them off to a grim front. He wanted them to whimper. But instead, the soldiers sang the song they had learned from the Scottish.
The Prince, seeing that he could not take away their humanity, was out of weapons to use against them. In a frustrated "Bah, why should I care anyway?" manner, he walked away in defeat.
Scitech101 11 months ago
@Scitech101 a simple way to defeat an enemy, by keeping up the spirits and fight on, no matter what,
gunnerthedenmark 8 months ago
Aujourd'hui, je suis fier de voir que la France et l'Allemagne sont non seulement en paix, mais probablement les deux nations d'Europe qui s'entendent le mieux.
W.Churchill avait raison, la priorité pour que plus jamais l'Europe ne connaisse de guerre, était bien de réconcilier ces deux nations, ou plutôt ces ceux peuples, si différents, et en même temps si similaire. (regardez arte, chaîne franco-allemande d'ailleurs, en particulier l'émission karambolage, ça en donne un parfait exemple)
GreilHohenheim 1 year ago
God bless the sons of Europe. Too long, too much have our fathers suffered, my brothers. My deepest respect and much love to my German, French, British, Dutch and Belgian brothers. Let us never again been send to slay one another by Generals, Presidents, Chancellors and politicians. If they want war, let them fight themselves! God bless you all
kriddie88 1 year ago 5
@kriddie88 What about Irish and scottish without us britain would have died.
JordoF6 11 months ago
What name is a music?
danielmartinspedreir 1 year ago
@danielmartinspedreir the song is called i'm dreaming of home
Nanostarification 11 months ago
@Nanostarification Thanks very much!
Fique com Deus!
:D
danielmartinspedreir 11 months ago
Presidents decide the war. But they themselves go not die in the war to the pointless one. If they themselves are too cowardly. For it they abuse her people.No soldier should have to shoot at another. Nevertheless, they all are most even fathers. No child should have to grow up without father.No child, no father, no mother should have to die only because it presidents or religious leaders so want!
Child protection group-Carolin Germany
ksgcarolinconcert 1 year ago
Den Krieg beschliessen Präsidenten. Aber sie selbst gehen nicht in den Krieg zum sinnlosen sterben. Sind sie selbst zu feige. Dafür missbrauchen sie ihre Völker.Kein Soldat sollte auf einen anderen schießen müssen. Sie alle sind doch meist selbst Väter. Kein Kind sollte ohne Vater aufwachsen müssen.Kein Kind, kein Vater, keine Mutter soll sterben müssen nur weil es Präsidenten oder Religionsführer so wollen!
Kinderschutzgruppe-Carolin Deutschland
ksgcarolinconcert 1 year ago
"Undoubtedly this is the most stupid, senseless and unnecessary war of modern times. It is a war not wanted by Germany...
—German Crown Prince Wilhelm
You can read about the truce and letters concerning it by those soldiers who were there in Oh Holy Night: The Peace of 1914. It really should have ended right then.
sdcoyote70 1 year ago
@sdcoyote70
The German leaders never agreed on the war. And it was always the same thing on the French side.
World War one was stupid bullshit between crowns that ended up killing Europe little by little.
Igosuki 6 months ago
only the highest british, german and french generals could dislike this...seems like we have 15 of them !
arii180107 1 year ago
This movie is truely beautiful, as is the song. It is incredible and inspirational. If the world could watch this they might learn a thing or two. We are all just one human race, and dispite our nationalities, colors, or religion, we aren't as different as we think. It's so sad to think that things were only like this for a day.
transformerwannabe 1 year ago
j'ai vu ce film le 27 decembre au cours d'un campement. ce film m'a rapellé combient le cinema peut toucher le coeurs des gens.
la guerre est quelque chose de si horrible... et noel quelque chose de si beau. ce film devrait etre montré a tous! ^^
yogurtmermelada4ever 1 year ago
Hommage a ceux mort pour la liberté
Linettepoussinette 1 year ago
Le 25 Décembre 1914, des hommes passent Noël dehors, dans des tranchées ou des ruines loin de leur famille avec comme seuls compagnons de guerre, leurs camarades de section et d'autres hommes en face, de l'autre coté de la tranchée, que l'on a déja vu oui..Mais du bout d'un viseur pendu à la gachette seulement...
Fraternisés
boucledhor 1 year ago
Craciun fericit, tuturor! Am vazut acest film aseara si am ramas impresionat de poveste si mesajul trimis. Craciunul este un miracol, mai presus de cuvinte si orgolii. Joyeux Noel! Merry Christmas! Frohe Weinachten!...
sirburadudorin 1 year ago
It should be noted that during the war, Adolf Hitler, then a soldier fighting for Germany, spoke with disgust to this event: "Such a thing should not happen in wartime. Have you no German sense of honour left at all?"
Disgusting.
May Hitler's memory continue to rot in the blackest pages of history.
Scitech101 1 year ago
@Scitech101 Wow, thanks for that comment. That says loads about the bastard, who will remain a hot coal for eternity.
marvy1118 1 year ago
Merry Christmas to all around the world.
From an American.
May the lessons learned on the last days of 1914 live on.
Scitech101 1 year ago
"Undoubtedly this is the most stupid, senseless and unnecessary war of modern times. It is a war not wanted by Germany..."--Crown Prince Wilhelm
The great tagedies of this war are described in Oh Holy Night: The Peace of 1914, focusing on letters written home by these soldiers who made the truce.
sdcoyote70 1 year ago
does anyone have lyrics for this?
specialkate00 1 year ago
@specialkate00 ant to all the people who love this song:
I hear the mountain birds
The sound of rivers singing
A song I’ve often heard
It flows through me now
So clear and so loud
I stand where I am
And forever I’m dreaming of home
I feel so alone, I’m dreaming of home
uglyjumali 1 year ago 3
@uglyjumali
Its carried in the air
The breeze of early morning
I see the land so fair
My heart opens wide
There sadness inside
I stand where I am
And forever I'm dreaming of home
I feel so alone, I'm dreaming of home
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uglyjumali 1 year ago
@uglyjumali thx! but i meant in French.., cuz at the moment i cannot get a word. i study French...;/
specialkate00 1 year ago
the most hideous of all is how a nation raise the children thinking that all the others are the enemies that have to be exterminated and the church supports it!
fairiecat 1 year ago
i watched this during my german class it was a great movie
rudorot65 1 year ago 2
Joyeux Noël my dear british,french and german brothers!
Let's treat eachother just like our brothers did in this movie
Merry Christmas everyone!!
Danne092 1 year ago 4
I used to think that Saving Private Ryan was the best war movie ever made. When I saw this one (about a year ago) I changed my opinion. this was the greast movie I had ever seen. Because It shows not only the horrors of war but also that we are all human, and it shows human compassion and that no matter what country you are from we are one. I have never cried so much during a movie.
Nazgul100 1 year ago 3
If they could do it in 1914, can we do it in 2010?
19jacinta88 1 year ago 9
@19jacinta88 there are no trenches now, no connection between the parties at war. Just cowards shooting innocent people from miles away.
JoJoJoris 1 year ago
@19jacinta88
Well, if the current wars were folks who celebrate christmas (for whatever reasons) against those who celebrate christmas (for whatever reasons), possibly...but only possibly. Right now, a majority of violent or potentially violent combat zones are between enemies who do and don't celebrate the holiday, or (in the current case of korea) don't celebrate Christmas in the traditional sense at all. Back then, these men weren't that different at all, except for where they came from.
HerrCollier 1 year ago
@HerrCollier
However, that does not get rid of the need to treat the people over there with dignity and to respect their culture.
Scitech101 1 year ago
"Alle Menschen werden Brüder"
To think that we have come so far. I wonder what these soldiers would have thought of the European Union and the peace and friendship we enjoy today as European brethren.
Mesterse 1 year ago 4
For some time, starting in the 19th Century, people feared that the machine, the rifle, the factory, and so forth would destroy the human spirit. As the drums of war grew, it did indeed begin to look like the very science that had brought us so many gifts would then slaughter millions and take away our human souls.
However, this moment proved that no machine or mechanization could kill our inner humanity. Even in the darkest times of machine war, the embers of compassion could reignite.
Scitech101 1 year ago 5
war, why on earth did we invent that?
MrSombody2 1 year ago
@MrSombody2
because we're humans
Malacont 1 year ago
Français ou Anglaise ??
frances o ingles ?
mhjfhyu 1 year ago
You can't help but think about the foreshadowing of the men's future, particularly Audebert's and Horstmayer's. Horstmayer is a Jew and even if he survived the Eastern Front, he may not survive Hitler. Audebert, being transfered to Verdun, may not even survive the war.
darksmidger 1 year ago 6
beautiful film indeed!!
willchan1963 1 year ago
Such a beautiful film, it really highlights that you can find beauty and happiness even in the worst of times, and that regardless of what army these soldiers are from, they are really all good people just trying to survive and make it home. They all love and hate, they all breathe and think... these young men are just like each other, forced into a war by old men. Fighting to survive and return to their families.
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sdcoyote70 1 year ago
that movie was wack.
gil435345345345 1 year ago
@gil435345345345
but true
dineloh86 1 year ago
The "best" nature of humanity--sentiment one day, for Roman Holiday, then back to murdering each other senselessly for a few square centimeters of mucky ground the next. Dead husbands, sons, fathers, brothers all the same for a good sing and a hug. Seeing the light for a few hours, but denying its superior ways, and higher moral authority, and going back to chauvinism & patriotism and brutality as if the moment of sanity never existed. So what exactly was set aside? Postponed for a moment.
israelipiper 1 year ago
@israelipiper
You fail to realize that a majority of those who actually participated in the unofficial Christmas Truce of 1914 were expediently shipped out to other parts of the front for their respective countries, because their commanding officers were alarmed at such fratnernization keeping their soldiers from "fighting the good fight." Most (not ALL, but most) soldiers who took part in the Christmas Truce were moved to other front lines to kill men they DIDN'T franternize with. AKA you fail
HerrCollier 1 year ago
@israelipiper Did you actually check it up, or did you just write?
AlexD907 1 year ago
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Scitech101 1 year ago
I remember reading about the christmas truce in my history class. It was so beautiful and wonderful that I couldn't believe something like this ever took place.
1337bard 1 year ago
Pfff les 14 qui aime pas....bas c d con ^^
SuperScant 1 year ago 3
very beautiful song....
The movie is great too !!! =)
FaFajda 1 year ago
I just saw this movie: one of the most inspiring films i ever saw. A must see for everyone: time to unite, time to recognize your brothers and sisters, regardles their race, sex, color or religion. Dont fight the conflict of the rich elite, dont destroy your habitat for money...
mbahnen 1 year ago
@mbahnen
Hallo my friend,
a really great comment....
I cannot say much more, but just one thing: Never, never, never again!!!
Uwe
UweFromLowerSaxony 1 year ago
this movie aproves: wars are fought for old men by young boys
MrSombody2 1 year ago 2
This is the kind of movie everyone needs to see. Cut this silly notion of superficial differences. We are all one on the soul level. But that is not what the elite wants. They want the population control and at the same time profit from our death through creating superficial crisis and wage wars. They have done it throughout known history. This disgusting pattern has to end.
ObeeLektro 1 year ago
Todays NWO crisis can serve as a great opportunity for all of us to break this vicious Cycle. Simply recognize how we are used and refuse to cooperate. Their fake money and weapons can not wage wars by themselves. They need someone to execute their dirty conspiracy theory plans.
ObeeLektro 1 year ago
I'm french and I've seen this movie which has touched me so much, it's so wonderful.. I've cried, yes I've cried, because of the music, the story. Thanks to this kind of movie, we can undertand that war is bullshits !!
=')
Joyeux Noël -- 10/10
djeanakin 1 year ago 63
@djeanakin What's really bullshit is that that cat was tried in Paris and shot for treason.... just saying.
vlkvojak 5 months ago
@djeanakin i share your sentiment my freind. im scotish and it was this film that showed me no matter language, race or creed, we are all just human beings and we would do well to remember that.
joyeux noel-- 11/10
albertjester 3 months ago
@albertjester (My djeanakin count has bugged so I removed it, and created a new one (dje6429)) Thanks dear friend ! You're asolutely right, fucking wars making all of us devils, guilties are only countries governors, using us (citizens) as sheeps !!
PS : I love your country !! But still not visited =(
dje6429 3 months ago
Since when does pitting tens of hundreds of innocents against each other considered to be the pinnacle of honor and love for thy kind ? Hell ! These men during Christmas did what hordes of diplomats couldn't be bothered to achieve : peace ! And when these poor souls proved peace was possible ... what do the rulers do ? Threaten them to go back to war ! Fighting for peace and liberty ... what a bunch of bull !
MoonlightEmbrace 1 year ago 6
Beautiful action on all sides? But then.. next morn...back to mud slingin? Positions givin away? Hell at that point ppl should have wrapped it up said fuck u kaiser, fuck you king, im goin home to my fam,,but we're humans and in 20 years want war again, a rowdy bunch of shits we are...A good ass kickin to all of us would set it straight.
bushmen123 1 year ago
from 2:47 to 3:20
What a voice !
chris013400 1 year ago
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Music is the most powerful thing on earth
UrbanBoy1993 1 year ago
U have no idea the memories associated with this song for me. Fuckin butiful
PUNISHER897 1 year ago
WWI could have ended that very day, and none more would need die.
Pealanor 1 year ago 70
@Pealanor nah they need to shoot their respective generals first for coming up with near-suicidal tactics THEN none more would need to die.
spartan585 1 year ago
@Pealanor And, had WW1 ended at that time, it's entirely possible that WWII never would have happened either. Imagine what the world would have been...
CaptainAardvaark 10 months ago 26
@CaptainAardvaark So true and so sad. The hateful attitudes and the severe penalties imposed on the starving German people at the end of WWI laid a foundation upon which WWII could be built. See the book about it on amazon, Oh Holy Night: The Peace of 1914.
sdcoyote70 2 months ago 5
The cat was the wisest of them all.
No, really. The cat did not understand such silly things as national divides and political squabbles. What it could comprehend was the common humanity that all soldiers had.
And is a german cat any different from a french cat? An Iranian Cat from an American Cat? The answer really is no. So, why should an Iranian Human be any different from an American Human?
So, in that sense, the cat really is the wisest character in the film.
Scitech101 1 year ago 3
I am not a German, French or Scottish, But I am a Human who loves peace and Humanity. It is by seeing such Great example of what Humanity really is and how much potential a human soul has to bring peace at times of war, I cry.
VIVI LA VIDA!!!
GEO AUR JENAY DO!!!
paki3393 1 year ago 6
quel musique trop beau!!!!!
lensois77580 1 year ago
Tous que c'est gens au souffert ... & Personnellement ce n'est pas contre les Allemand mais c'est "eux" qui on voulu faire la guerre croyant qu'il allait gagné. Mais il on perdu ... C'est triste Tous ces gens morts ! Il faut honorer et ne pas oublier. Cette trêve.. MAGNIFIQUE ! On retrouve l'être humain. PEACE AND L0VE <3
oOHarmoOo 1 year ago
There is a link on my website [link on my page here] "Christmas Truce" which will take you to a UK site where they have lots of letters that describe the truces, written by the soldiers.
sdcoyote70 1 year ago
To end my first message, French had 200.000 killed soldiers in the first battles and their countries Belgium and France invaded by germans. For sure no one french or belgian soldier could drink and play football with the enemy even for Christmas ! Did the British made Christmas truce on the Somme line in december 1916 ? Certainly not !!
Biloutemag 1 year ago
@Biloutemag There were reports of different types of truces in many different places on the Western front. There were attempts the next years as well, but the reason they didn't happen is because higher officers on both sides obviously couldn't allow it so they tended to shell the crap out of each other (among many other measures taken to avoid another truce, including different rotation systems to avoid fraternising with the enemy) every Christmas after 1914.
spouwerranger 1 year ago
To tell the truth, Christmas truce in 1914 concerned only British and German troops around the town of Ypres (Belg). In december 1914, British were "only" 70.000 to fight in France (professional soldiers). They came massively in France but later (1915-1916). 95% of the war front concerned only German and French troops (1.200.000 for the French)... and no truce there !
Biloutemag 1 year ago
What this should show is not 'Aww stupid war bad mistake' but how insane the leaders of the world are, all propaganda about foreign countries is phony, with what little care for the human life or spirit the world is controlled by those who hide from our eyes.
This isn't testimony to the potential amongst just a few men, but humans and mankind overall, when the veil is lifted, and what you're really fighting against is shown (Think Iraq, Afghanistan).
BroncoLion 1 year ago 2
This song is hauntinggy beautiful. Thank you so much for posting it!
FayraLee 1 year ago
This movie is so hard for me to watch. I'm an American with British (Scottish, Irish, Welsh, English), French, and German heritage. Watching my cousins go through this...it's horrifying.
FreakingHarryPotter 1 year ago
Let us face it. We are a warlike species. We glorify it, and it is even in our genetic code.
Yet events like this prove that thanks to the fact that are civilized, we can overcome the warmonger within us.
Scitech101 1 year ago
Thanks to all the countries to have allowed has our beautiful country FRANCE to exist still
FrenchKing34 1 year ago
this was the greatest war movie i ever saw. i'm not much into war films but this film is one of the best i ever seen.
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KolokanN 1 year ago
Someday..... perhaps someday.....
We will learn not to fight each other and simply get along. As brothers. As a family. As a species.
Scitech101 1 year ago 3
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ouralie 1 year ago
@Scitech101 Nicely said
Maybe one day...
ouralie 1 year ago
Please, why do you bring argument to this area! To a time when the best of humanity was shown?
This was not about religion. nor was it against religion. It was about simple brotherhood and love. Is that such a hard thing to comprehend? That your neighbor can be your neighbor and not your enemy? Regardless of who that neighbor worships?
Scitech101 1 year ago
je m'en doute un peu, mais il leur ai arriver quoi à ces Soldats qui ont fraternisé lors de Noël 1914?
Galie77 1 year ago
Mhouais....
jirogros 1 year ago
M** moi qui chialait deja devant le film et dont je le regardait au moin 20 fois d'afiller! X))
CH*blubbering that I had done before the film which I watched at least 20 times below! X))
CH*flennen, ich hätte vor dem Film, den ich sah mindestens 20 mal unten getan! X))
et le pire c'est du vraie!joyeux noël...
and the worst it's true! Merry Christmas ...
und je schlechter es ist wahr! Frohe Weihnachten ...
lihtchaol 1 year ago
merveilleux la preuve que les hommes peuve s'entendre des les pires moment mes ses guerre vienne des costar qui ne respecte aucune perssone
SuperJackpearl 1 year ago
This is a scottish folk song???
folladordeprostis 1 year ago
He visto 5 veces esta película y las 5 veces no paré de llorar, aún cuando me acuerdo lloro.
La escena donde se unen las gaitas con la voz del soldado alemán me rompió el alma.
T_T
rapsi1978 1 year ago
Being german and father of three french kids. Their grandfathers were enimies in the 2. war, their great-grandfathers in the 1. war. Who can understand that f...... world. It is so much better to make love instead of war.....
seibelstein 1 year ago
This movie affects me in a way that few have! This film, as only film seems able to do, helps me understand the courage required of each participant in the truce, each step of the way toward each other and toward nonviolence, in defiance of orders and expectations and in the face of real danger and possible betrayal. "Joyeux Noel" celebrates humanity, and shows that we can overcome our most primal fears and trust our best instincts. Monsieur Rombi and confreres, I salute you!
GerRegan 1 year ago 3
The end of the video makes me cry.
They rest in peace... :(
1Tox121 1 year ago
I LOVE THIS MOVIE. I CRY A LOT WHILE I WATCHING THE TENOR SINGING IN NO MAN´S LAND PART. BEAUTIFUL
tomlorvi 1 year ago 2
The very ending is very poignant in that it juxtaposes the harsh military Prussian style martinent cold heart with the men's simple basic human instinct for feelings as expressed in their singing the fraternization tune.
hospitalship1 1 year ago
@hospitalship1 In the end, the latter won.
Scitech101 1 year ago
très belle vidéo, et superbe musique !
magoutte1809 1 year ago
I love this story and movie!
LadySquall 1 year ago 2
A stupid, senseless and bloddy war how killed a improbably number of french men, destroyed the german empire and brought Germany to hate and destruction... never forget WW one.
canaillou1991 1 year ago
I like to imagine that Horstmayer and Audebert had that drink in Paris after the war....
19florydory00 1 year ago
You are not human if your emotions didn't stir while watching this movie or the whole movie.
Revulashyun 1 year ago
THANK YOU
terraformingbiopunk 1 year ago
The last scene almost made me cry.
I mean, its just so beautiful how the German soldiers never forgot what they learned from their French and Scottish friends, and even the lieutenant hummed along.
And its sad how most of them probably perished in the Eastern Front..
PanzerKpfwIV 1 year ago
Scitech101 @utubu3
please dont speak of the pope, he wont admit to the suffering the catholic hurch has caused Ireland, a nation who followed a useless cause, The pope my .... religion has caused so much conflict .
robbiemable 1 year ago
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The proganda machines of the warring nations were panicked. These soldiers had discovered the humanity in each other, and needed to hide it. France denied the event and punished the soldiers. So did the Germans and English.
However, try as they might, the propoganda machines of the nations could not stop the chorus of truth. The British Media let it out with a cheerful hurrah.
Remember. This was humanity at its best!
Scitech101 1 year ago
Stop bickering.
The soldiers here exemplified the best nature of humanity.
Perhaps someday, humanity will learn what these soldiers did.
Scitech101 1 year ago 35
@Scitech101 I can't agree with you more
The message in this stunning occassion has nothing to do with religion; it has everything to do with the human spirit. Yes, religious celebration was the source behind the semantics, but above all it is a testament to humanity's ability to set aside pointless, political and even national ideology, and to simply accept the fact that, no matter what nation or faith you come from, the man standing across the field from you is still your brother.
HerrCollier 1 year ago 4
remember that without the romanian army, the russians could not defend the eastern front!!!
Andrei48Eduard 1 year ago
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@ to actonbath
"France was a major supplier of high grade weapons and technology to Saddam and now want to sell weapons to the Iraq Army today. "
Have you the same source of information that had Bush to declare war (without ONU agree) to find WMD in Irak ? LOL
Biloutemag 1 year ago 2
France and Great Britain were forced to war by their alliances (Triple entente).
Do you remember that the 1914 conflict in western Europe opened with the German invasion of Belgium (neutral), Luxembourg and France ?
Biloutemag 1 year ago
France was not the cause of this WW1 and lose 1.400.000 soldiers, 10% of all the male french active people (much more than all americans soldiers died in all US wars !) but a good part of american people did'nt hesitate to name the french "cheese eating surrender monkeys" because France refuse to follow them in their stupid and arrogant Irak war.
Shame on you for that !
Biloutemag 1 year ago 5
@Biloutemag
"but a good part of american people did'nt hesitate to name the french 'cheese eating surrender monkeys' ".
That sir is not the "good part of American people", that sir is the ignorant part, the misinformed part, the part of a people that every nation has inluding France.
France was a major supplier of high grade weapons and technology to Saddam and now want to sell weapons to the Iraq Army today.
actonbath 1 year ago
Who cares about what Americans think about those superb men and what they did during the Great War ?
Who cares about what Americans think about the way nowaday France manages her interests ?
Darodh 1 year ago
I am insulted. Not every American is a dumb idiot.
The people who took part in this truce were the most heroic figures in the entire war. It was a dark conflict, but we must all take solace in the lanterns that history provides us in our black timeline: for they are rare.
Scitech101 1 year ago
French nationalism was one of the reason for WOI. The French wanted revenche for 1870/1871 when their asses were kicked by a German army 4 times smaller then theirs. So when Russia invaded Germany (1914), Germany and Russia were at war, France quickly declared war on Germany. So...
MTXD92 1 year ago
@ MTXD92
Go back to school !
Biloutemag 1 year ago
Prussian reaction and withdrawal
The Prussian Army held a brief victory parade in Paris on 17 February, and Bismarck honoured the armistice by sending trainloads of food into Paris and withdrawing Prussian forces to the east of the city, which would be withdrawn as soon as France agreed to pay five-billion francs in war indemnity.[