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WWI's Christmas Truce Proves That Even In The Midst Of War, Peace Can Prevail At Times
On December 24, 1914, the fighting along the Western Front of the First World War stopped suddenly. It was just five months earlier that Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. The continent was ...
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A Stunning Series of Informal Ceasefires Known as the ‘Christmas Truce’ Began on This Day in 1914
It was, after all, Christmas Eve, a seemingly inappropriate time for the Christians of Europe to kill each other. Earlier in December, Pope Benedict XV urged a holiday truce. But the pope’s ...