Oh what a lovely war! Christmas Truce

Oh, che bella guerra ! di Richard Attenborough - La tregua di Natale del 1914.
Per approfondire il cinema sulla Grande Guerra:
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Oh, what a lovely war ! by Richard Attenborough - Christmas truce of 1914
To study Great War cinema in depth (in Italian):
http://www.fronteitaliana.it/Immagini/Cinema.html

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Film & Animation

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• Christmas truce
• Oh what a lovely war
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[Fruitjoke]

This shows, that it is the goverments who fight each other and not people.

[Whoami691]

'Do you know when the war will end'

'After our spring offensive i should think'

i couldn't help but laugh at that xD

[Hippophilee]

Did it really happen like that? So often had the Germans done war tricks – ie advancing in disguise or "unarmed" (with grenades) and pretending they surrendered, just to get close to our trenches and open fire… Many allied soldiers would not have let a crowd of Germans advancing like this in no-man's land. I imagine the truce must have started with a lot of discrete talks to create confidence.

[TalonMercenary]

I believe after this truce happened, the generals on both sides redeployed the men who had stopped fighting, so the truce could never happen again. :(:(:(

[Conscript702]

I'll drink to this! :)

[RichtofenRules]

Minute Artillery hits: RUNNNNN!!!!!!!!

[2manynegativewaves]

@RodmasterStudios Mate,but, my G Grandad was a Sgt in a Scots regt at this time in Flander,his Lt was called Mc***,his Captain was called Mc*** and his Clnl was called Cambell. My G Grandad 6 months later was an Officer himself and his mate was another officer called Cambell,later called,erm,Duke of Argyle...please dont spread gash about some impoverished backwoods Scotland with Scots lions led by upper class Etonians from Hampshire :) PS G Grandad was english :)

[TalonMercenary]

What a beautiful scene, a terrible shame this never happened again during the war :(

[rainbirdeleven]

Aye the middle of piccadily lol

[RodmasterStudios]

@JordoF6 Most of the British soldiers in this scene are Scottish with about three Englishmen. The historical reason for this is that until after the Second World War, regiments were divided according to where you came from, so the Welsh, English and Irish would be in other parts of the trenches, but most officers were English (Partly due to the large population compared to the rest of the UK, and partly due to more people able to afford higher education in southern England at the time).