By late December 1914 World War I had been raging for nearly five months. Had anyone really believed it would be “all over by Christmas,” then it was clear they had been cruelly mistaken.With the strength of imperial Germany now evident to all, there appeared to be no chance of victory in the foreseeable future. By this time men were beginning, almost despite themselves, to gain a kind of grudging respect for their opposite numbers lurking acros…

Božična premirja 1914: ko se je vojna za trenutek ustavila

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Ljubljana

Slovenia

Christmas Truce 1914: When the war stopped for a moment

Faced with the brutal reality of the Western Front, British and German abandoned their weapons to sing carols, exchange gifts and play football in a spontaneous pause never forgotten

Frente a la brutal realidad del Frente Occidental, británicos y alemanes abandonaron sus armas para cantar villancicos, intercambiar regalos y jugar al fútbol en una pausa espontánea jamás olvidada

Milagro de Navidad en plena Guerra Mundial: el día que soldados enemigos cruzaron la trinchera para celebrar juntos la Nochebuena

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Daniel Hadad

Buenos Aires

Argentina

Christmas miracle in the middle of World War II: the day enemy soldiers crossed the trench to celebrate Christmas Eve together

Pope Francis calls for a Christmas truce in all the wars raging in the world. His plea will not be heard by many, certainly not in Ukraine and Gaza. History is against Christmas truces.

Paus Franciscus roept op tot een kerstbestand in alle oorlogen die woeden in de wereld. Veel gehoor zal zijn bede niet krijgen, zeker niet in Oekraïne en Gaza. Kerstbestanden hebben de geschiedenis tegen.

De wapens laten zwijgen met Kerstmis? Zo’n bestand is een mythe, al is er wel één plek waar het jaarlijks wordt gerespecteerd

Het Belang van Limburg

Mediahuis

Hasselt

Limburg

Flanders

Belgium

Silencing the guns at Christmas? Such a truce is a myth, although there is one place where it is observed annually

Het Nieuwsblad

Football at the front? Exactly 110 years ago, German and British soldiers in the First World War agreed to a spontaneous Christmas truce. In 1914, they met in no man's land - and a football gave frightened young men a brief feeling of being human again.

Fußball an der Front? Vor genau 110 Jahren beschließen deutsche und britische Soldaten im Ersten Weltkrieg einen spontanen Weihnachtsfrieden. 1914 treffen sie sich im Niemandsland - und ein Fußball gibt verängstigten jungen Männern kurz das Gefühl, wieder Mensch zu sein.

Was steckt hinter dem Mythos?: Als im Ersten Weltkrieg das Weihnachtswunder die Zeit anhielt

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Bertelsmann Stiftung

What is behind the myth?: When the Christmas miracle stopped time during the First World War

At Christmas 1914, soldiers left the trenches on the Western Front to sing, exchange gifts and play football. But it wasn't long before they were shooting at each other again.

Zu Weihnachten 1914 verließen Soldaten die Schützengräben an der Westfront, um zu singen, Geschenke auszutauschen und Fußball zu spielen. Doch es dauerte nicht lange, bis sie wieder aufeinander schossen.

Weihnachtsfrieden 1914: „Zwischen den Schützengräben stehen die...

Die Presse

Styria Media Group

Vienna

Austria

Christmas Peace 1914: “Between the trenches stand the...

In December 1914, an observer flying over Western Europe would have gazed down at a most striking, and sinister, topographical feature. Two chains of deep trenches and concertinas of barbed wire slithered in snake-like patterns as far as the eye could see from the English Channel to the Swiss Alps, slicing an unsightly laceration across the blasted out fields of northern France and Belgium. Hunkered down within these subterranean troughs amid th…

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The Daily Wire

Ben Shapiro

Nashville

Davidson County

Tennessee

United States

Christmas Miracle On The Western Front, 1914

Dozens of soldiers who fought in the First World War claimed that there were football matches on the Western Front between the enemies, but the stories differ sharply. Moreover, it was a much more decisive event on the English side, with hardly any trace left on the Germans. Even if there were a few football matches, there was never a repeat, as the warring parties made sure that there would not be another Christmas truce after 1914.

Tucatnyi, az első világháborúban harcoló katona állította, hogy voltak focimeccsek a nyugati fronton az ellenségek között, ám a történetek merőben eltérnek egymástól. Ráadásul angol oldalon sokkal meghatározóbb történés volt ez, a németeknél alig maradt nyoma. Ha volt is pár focimeccs, ismétlés sosem jött, a hadban álló felek ugyanis tettek róla, hogy ne legyen még egy karácsonyi tűzszünet 1914 után.

Tényleg létezett karácsonyi focimeccs az első világháborúban?

telex.hu

Was there really a Christmas football game in World War I?

They remained taboo for a long time, but ceasefires during the Christmas period did exist during the First World War. Moments of fraternization, where the conflict is on hold for a few hours, took place in the Somme. In their logbooks, soldiers tell stories. [First published on 19/12/2021]

Ils sont restés longtemps tabous, mais des cessez-le-feu durant les périodes de Noël ont bien existé durant la Première Guerre mondiale. Des moments de fraternisation, où le conflit est en suspens quelques heures, ont eu lieu dans la Somme. Dans leurs carnets de bord, les soldats racontent. [Première publication le 19/12/2021]

Noël 1914, quand les Français et les Allemands fraternisaient dans les tranchées : "les hommes ont voulu faire trêve à leur tuerie"

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State of France

Strasbourg

Bas-Rhin

Grand Est

France

Christmas 1914, when the French and the Germans fraternized in the trenches: “the men wanted to put an end to their killing”

Even 100 years ago, war was raging. It was the beginning of the First World War, and in the dark winter days of 1914, in the midst of the storm of war, a "miraculous flash of humanity" occurred. Namely, along the Western Front, a spontaneous truce occurred when soldiers on both sides decided to lay down their weapons for a moment during the Christmas holidays. Nothing like it has ever happened again. And even today, we are sadly witnessing many …

Tudi pred 100 leti je divjala vojna. Bil je začetek prve svetovne vojne in v mračnih zimskih dneh leta 1914, se je sredi vojne vihre zgodil "čudežni preblisk človečnosti". Vzdolž zahodne fronte so se namreč zgodila spontana premirija, ko so se med božičnimi prazniki vojaki na obeh straneh odločili, da za trenutek odložijo orožje. Kaj podobnega se nato nikoli več ni ponovilo. In tudi danes smo žal priča, da mnogi v Ukrajini, Gazi in na Zahodnem b…

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Ο χειμώνας του 1914 ήταν ιδιαίτερα ζοφερός, αλλά μέσα στη λάσπη, το αίμα και το χάος του Πρώτου Παγκοσμίου Πολέμου , μια σειρά από εκεχειρίες που καταγράφηκαν στο μήκος του…Περισσότερα...

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