Christmas in the Trenches

A slide show about the Christmas Day 1914 when all sides laid down their weapons and made peace by playing a game of soccer.

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News & Politics

Tags:

• christmas
• world
• war
• trench
• warfare
• peace
• soldiers

[RSNCICREO]

poor workers got sent to there death for what just to settle a famly dispute among the Royals of Europe sad

[redbaron863]

So sad. The WW I was a real big mistake. The world would be another than today. We had all our colonies and no islamic danger...

[TheAidan134]

@kn1ghtstemplar Until the Japs bombed pearl harbour

[JoeJasperLoca]

"Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war". 

-- Albert Einstein

[lundberg]

@redbaron863

Sad? No. Quite the opposite. The very best of humanity is shown in the tiny chasm between hate, death and war. Our best side shown if ever so briefly. It's a reminder that we can, no, must do better. I listen to this song every Christmas eve. It is the epitome of faith and hope. Merry Christmas...

[Cook75969]

Thank you, Mrs. Smith 1964 for making and posting this slide show. We used it today to introduce WWI at the Christmas season. It made 100-year old history real for 6 classes of 11th graders. Well-done and appreciated.

[Somme1916Somme]

THANKYOU FOR THIS...

[tennis11ish]

@JeanDupays1 - John McCutcheon. I think he may have written it too.

[Spartacus21C]

@SirAroace I have to assume he was being satyrical. He couldn't possibly watch this video and decry the bloodshed of WWI, but remain a colonialist and an Islamophobe.

[cheesyman333]

MOST...DEPRESSING...SONG...EVE­R!!!!!!!

[Geldris]

@RSNCICREO

You also seemed to completely ignore my other point that you're assuming correlation proves cause. Just because a few of the leaders were related to each other doesn't even remotely prove that it was a war due to a "family dispute." You're still yet to cite any specific dispute, and even more importantly, the whole entire war started because Austria invaded Serbia, and a series of Alliances made that a problem. Not alliances built on "family ties," unless you can prove otherwise.