On Christmas Day in 1914 in France and Belgium, tens of thousands of German, British and French soldiers spontaneously observed a truce, fraternizing, singing Christmas carols and exchanging gifts in no-man’s land.
This revival of European fraternity was brief, however; hearts soon hardened in the bloody fighting that followed in 1915.
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