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Did the WW1 Christmas truce really happen?
Episode 2439

Did the WW1 Christmas truce really happen?

HistoryExtra podcast · Immediate

December 24, 202534m 46s

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Show Notes

It’s one of the most romantic images of the First World War: British and German soldiers meeting in No Man’s Land on Christmas Day, 1914, for a spontaneous truce and a game of football. But did it actually happen? Historian Alex Churchill joins Rachel Dinning to discuss the famous event – and reveals what really happened in the trenches in December 1914.

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GO BEYOND THE PODCAST

Don’t miss our six-episode HistoryExtra Academy course WW1: Myths and Misconceptions, in which Alex Churchill challenges the most significant misunderstandings about the global conflict: https://bit.ly/4aVy63a

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