Who was involved in the ww1 christmas truce?
Roughly 100,000 British and German troops were involved in the unofficial cessations of hostility along the Western Front. The first truce started on Christmas Eve 1914, when German troops decorated the area around their trenches in the region of Ypres, Belgium and particularly in Saint-Yvon (called Saint-Yves, in Plugstreet/Ploegsteert – Comines-Warneton), where Capt. Bruce Bairnsfather described the truce.
Who was involved in the WWI Christmas truce of 2014 along the Western Front?
100,000 British and German troops
Christmas truce
In the Comines sector of the front there was an early fraternization between German and French soldiers in December 1914, during a short truce, and there are at least two other testimonials, from French soldiers, of similar behaviours in sectors where German and French companies opposed each other. Gervais Morillon wrote to his parents: 'The Boches waved a white flag and shouted "Kamarades, Kamarades, rendez-vous." When we didn't move they came towards us unarmed, led by an officer. Although we are not clean they are disgustingly filthy. I am telling you this but don't speak of it to anyone. We must not mention it even to other soldiers.' Gustave Berthier wrote: 'On Christmas Day the Boches made a sign showing they wished to speak to us. They said they didn't want to shoot. ... They were tired of making war, they were married like me, they didn't have any differences with the French but with the English.'
Who was involved in the WWI Christmas truce of 2014 in the Comines sector of the front?
German and French soldiers
Christmas truce
Fraternisation—peaceful and sometimes friendly interactions between opposing forces—was a regular feature in quiet front-line sectors of the Western Front. In some areas, it manifested as a passive inactivity, where both sides would refrain from overtly aggressive or threatening behaviour, while in other cases it extended to regular conversation or even visits from one trench to another. On the Eastern Front, Fritz Kreisler reported incidents of spontaneous truces and fraternisation between the Austro-Hungarians and Russians in the first few weeks of the war.
Who was involved in the WWI Christmas truce of 2014 in the Eastern front?
Austro-Hungarians and Russians
Christmas truce
Christmas truce
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas%20truce
The Christmas truce (German: Weihnachtsfrieden; French: Trêve de Noël) was a series of widespread unofficial ceasefires along the Western Front of the First World War around Christmas 1914.
Christmas truce
The Christmas truce was a series of widespread unofficial ceasefires during WWI around Christmas 1914. Over the Western Front of the War, roughly 100,000 British and German troops ceased hostilities when the Germans started decorating the areas around the trenches. Similar events of fraternization happened over in the Comines sector of the front between German and French soldiers and between Austro-Hungarians and Russians over in the Eastern Front.