What's more telling is that once the higher ups found out about this, they banned it. You can't fight a war once your realize the other side is just like you. If you listen to them propaganda and dehumanize, then you have less trouble pulling the trigger. We're all very similar, no matter the country, politics, or anything else.
I forget the exact quote and where I actually read it but per my bad paraphrased memory: >Soldiers on opposing sides have more in common with each other than they do with the powers that sent them to war.
We are all pretty much the same. We all want to live a peaceful comfortable life. Politics is what starts wars not the common people. I remember someone posting a video interview of an old WW2 vet on here and he was describing his battle with an enemy, in which he was slightly faster and so he was able to stab him with his bayonet first. He said he immediately puked, and wished nothing more than for him to come back to life so he could shake his hand, because he was sure that under any other circumstances they would’ve been sharing a few drinks at the pub.
I have seen this a few times and I always thought that no man's land would have been all chewed up and pick marked with holes and broken trees. This land looks relatively clear and flat.
The really elaborate trenches most people associate with the war didn't come until later. There was quite a bit of movement during the early portion of the war before they dug in.
If the title is correct, this would only be 4 months into the war, still a little early before either side realized the capabilities of modern artillery
Incredible how they could put the war aside for 1 day and just play the next back to killing each other
真绝了,他们竟然能把战争搁置一天,踢完球第二天又接着互相残杀。
doppelganger00011 赞2019/12/26
Fußball - Football - Fútbol
足球(德语) - 足球(英语) - 足球(西语)
Killieboy169 赞2019/12/26
And this was how the War should've been decided.
这才应该是决定战争胜负的方式。
AristonD30 赞2019/12/26
America would have lost every war...
美国要是没那帮女人去踢球,估计场场仗都得输……
snailtsim41 赞2019/12/26
Unless the women played
除非是女人去踢的那种。
Investigate3_117 赞2019/12/26
Football. They played football.
橄榄球。她们踢的是橄榄球。
[已删除]4 赞2019/12/26
i would have had to sneak away in the night, i couldn't go back to shooting at "the other side" the next day. boys given guns and told to go kill each other by old men who are too cowardly to do what they themselves ask.
Highly, highly recommend watching Joyeux Noel which is about this. Amazing movie.
极力、极力推荐去看《圣诞快乐》(Joyeux Noel),讲的就是这件事。神作。
Hewholooksskyward3 赞2019/12/26
Blackadder: [regarding the 1914 Christmas truce] "Both sides advanced further during one Christmas piss-up than they managed in the next two and a half years of war!" Baldrick: "Remember the football match?" Blackadder: "Remember it?! How could I forget it?! I was never offside; I could not BELIEVE that decision!"