80 Years, Battle of the Bulge & "The Forest Truce"

[ExiledInIllinois]

https://www.abmc.gov/news-events/news/christmas-eve-1944-brief-moment-peace-battlefield

[US Egg]

Well, time to leave…..after you.

Oh that’s ok, you first….I insist.

[NoHuddleKelly12]

A great vignette showing what is possible even in the darkest of times such as that war…good reminder of that OP. Also reminiscent of the Christmas truce of 1914, when soldiers spontaneously laid down their arms and locked hands across the bloody trench lines of Western Europe for a few inexplicable days of peace and “fraternization” with the enemy (that their superiors could not understand and sought to prevent). The 2005 movie “Joyeux Noel” depicts that event, fwiw. 

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On 12/25/2024 at 2:01 PM, NoHuddleKelly12 said:

A great vignette showing what is possible even in the darkest of times such as that war…good reminder of that OP. Also reminiscent of the Christmas truce of 1914, when soldiers spontaneously laid down their arms and locked hands across the bloody trench lines of Western Europe for a few inexplicable days of peace and “fraternization” with the enemy (that their superiors could not understand and sought to prevent). The 2005 movie “Joyeux Noel” depicts that event, fwiw. 

 

 

 

Except for those pesky Canadians........they lobbed cans of food into the German trenches at Christmas and when the Krauts came out of their bunkers to get them, they then started lobbing grenades.

 

On a side note, when the Germans came out of the trenches waving white flags on Christmas day to spread some good will and cheer, the Canadians then spread them with gunfire.

 

Oh, those pesky Canadians.