[stratos]

Finished this movie a bit ago a very good WWI adaptation of the unathorized truce of the first Christmass. I know it realy did happen but I'm not sure if the events shown are accurate. Still an interesting film.

[xerxes]

Yeah I just that movie about a week ago myself.

As to the accuracy, to the best of my knowledge, it's fairly accurate. Officers from both sides came and met each other and arranged an informal truce so they could collect and bury the dead, and the Germans did put up little Christmas trees along the tops of their trenches.

And the letter that is quoted at the end of the movie is an actual letter that was intercepted by censors during the war.

[stratos]

cool: I also know it was not as isolated as the movie makes it out to be. The impromtu truce was along almost all of the western front. There was a soccer game played but no score kept.

Far as I know thats the only modern war where this has happened. Does anyone know if soldiers were moved to diffrent areas do to this christmass truce like they show in the movie?

[xerxes]

They weren't so much moved around as they were redeployed between the front and different sectors so they wouldn't become too familiar with the enemy. Also artillery bombardments were ordered each Christmas day so soldiers wouldn't have a chance to talk in no-man's land again.

The soccer game you mentioned happened a year later though and there was another instance in the summer of 1916. And the last survivor of the first game only died in 2003. His life spanned three centuries. He was born in the 19th, lived in the 20th, and died in the 21st.