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Christmas Truce Glimpsed Humanity in 1914 Front Line
In Belgium's Ploegsteert sector British and German troops paused fighting on Christmas Day 1914, trading gifts and sharing moments amid the mud as a spontaneous truce briefly lifted spirits. The Birdcage attack of Dec 19 loomed nearby, while later years hardened rules against truces.
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Ploegsteert
Belgium
Flanders Fields
Kurt Zehmisch
134Th Saxony Regiment
Henry Williamson
London Rifle Brigade
France
Germany
Belgian
Britain
Piet Chielens
Flanders’ Fields
Ypres
Frank
Maurice Wray
Wrays
Chielens
North Sea
Werner Keil
Eric Bowden
Queen’s Westminster Rifles
Rowden
Cpt
Robert Hamilton
Royal Warwickshire
Horace Smith-Dorrien
Prowse Point
27Th Battalion
Australian Infantry